Argentine chess wonderkid Faustino Oro advanced to the FIDE World Chess Championship second round on Monday, after beating Croatia’s Ante Brkic 5-3 in a tiebreaker match. 

The Argentine prodigy beat Brkic after both players agreed to play a tiebreaker. The series had ended tied 1-1 after the initial duel on Sunday.

Oro is the world’s youngest player with the International Master title at 12 years old, with a 2509 ELO ranking. The ELO is a system by which chess players are ranked by calculating their relative skill levels. Players earn points by defeating rivals with higher or similar ELO scores, depending on how big........

© Buenos Aires Herald