For much of his pre-teen years, the clock was the Argentinian prodigy’s fiercest rival. Every tournament, every move, every half-chance missed and every hard-fought win was a race against time to break the sport’s most coveted age record: becoming the youngest Grandmaster in chess history. For Faustino Oro, that record remained agonisingly out of reach, but he emerged with a consolation that is itself a slice of history on Sunday. At 12 years, 6 months and 26 days old, he became the second-youngest player ever to earn the Grandmaster title. The historic moment arrived at the Sardinia World Chess Festival in Italy, where Oro officially clinched his third and final GM norm. With that, his name was etched into the record books right behind American Abhimanyu Mishra, who had claimed the highest title in chess at 12 years, four months, and 25 days in July 2021.…