Legends & Prodigies - Live!

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9/7/2026 – From 7 to 12 September, the "Legends and Prodigies" tournament is taking place in Madrid, with five grandmasters and five international masters competing in a clash of generations. The event is a double round-robin played with a shortened classical time control. Alongside the young Argentine star Faustino Oro, currently the world's youngest GM and the second youngest GM of all time, the field includes grandmasters David Antón Guijarro, José Martínez Alcantara, Ivan Sokolov, Diego Flores and José Fernando Cuenca Jimenez. | Photo: Mar Melero | Live from 17:00 CEST
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Faustino Oro returns to the tournament: this is the second edition of Legends & Prodigies, albeit with different rules from last year's inaugural event. Oro, who won the tournament last year and recorded one of the best results of his career so far, has now fulfilled all the requirements for the GM title. The Argentine teenager will face five strong grandmasters in a six-player double round-robin at Nave Bellver and is seeded fifth.

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The six players in the Legends & Prodigies tournament will face each other twice over ten rounds. A single round will be played on Monday, 7 September, at 17:00, followed by double rounds from 8 to 11 September (at 11:00 and 17:00 each day). The final round is scheduled for Saturday, 12 September.

The time control is 60 minutes plus a 30-second increment from move one. The tournament has been approved by FIDE, so the games will count towards the standard rating list. FIDE allows selected tournaments to test shorter standard time controls under conditions established by its Qualification Commission.

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Commentary by Mariano Sigman and El Divis (in Spanish)

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