The 5th day of the Grand Chess Tour 2026 Finals in the USA has concluded. GMs completed the Classical part of the Final in the second round.

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana and 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R drew their game in 95 moves. 🇺🇸 Wesley So and 🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer drew their Classical game in 41 moves by a threefold repetition. Vincent defeated Wesley in the Blitz game by making 5 Great moves.

Pairings with current points:

Final: 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana (9) - 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R (3)

Match for 3rd place: 🇺🇸 Wesley So (6) - 🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer (8)

The Grand Chess Tour 2026 Finals takes place from August 22 to 28 at the Saint Louis Chess Club in Missouri, USA. The event features a 4-player Single Elimination system.

Matches consist of two Classical games, two Rapid games, and four Blitz games. Classical games feature a 90+30 time control for the first 40 moves and 30+30 for the rest of the game. Rapid and Blitz games feature 25+10 and 5+2 time controls respectively.

Credit: Lennart Ootes