The 5th day of the GCT Sinquefield Cup 2026 in USA has concluded. After 5 rounds, Wesley So leads with 3.5 points, while Fabiano Caruana is in second place with 3 points.

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana defeated 🇺🇸 Levon Aronian in 46 moves. Caruana played the game with 97.1 accuracy, while Aronian’s was 91.6.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 3.5
2. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 3
3. 🇫🇷 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3
4. 🇩🇪 GM Vincent Keymer 3
5. 🇮🇳 GM Praggnanandhaa R 3
6. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 2.5
7. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 2.5
8. 🇺🇿 GM Javokhir Sindarov 2
9. 🇳🇱 GM Anish Giri 1.5
10. 🇳🇱 GM Jorden v. Foreest 1

Individual round results:

🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest 0.5-0.5 🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana 1-0 🇺🇸 Levon Aronian

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov 0.5-0.5 🇺🇸 Sam Sevian

🇺🇸 Wesley So 0.5-0.5 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R

🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer 1-0 🇳🇱 Anish Giri

The GCT Sinquefield Cup 2026 takes place from August 10 to 20, at the Saint Louis Chess Club in Missouri, USA. The event features a 90+30 time control for the first 40 moves and 30+30 for the rest of the game over single Round-Robin between 10 players.

Credit: Lennart Ootes