The 6th day of the US Chess Championships 2026 in Saint Louis has concluded. After 6 rounds, four players share the lead with 4 points each, with Wesley So leading on tiebreaks.

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana defeated 🇺🇸 Sam Shankland in 37 moves. Caruana gained +3.1 points and moved up to 3rd place in the live rating with 2783.4 points. 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov held the World’s No. 3 spot for one full day.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 4
2. 🇺🇸 GM Andy Woodward 4
3. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 4
4. 🇺🇸 GM Awonder Liang 4
5. 🇺🇸 GM Jeffery Xiong 3.5
6. 🇺🇸 GM Abhimanyu Mishra 3
7. 🇺🇸 GM Grigoriy Oparin 3
8. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Shankland 2.5
9. 🇺🇸 GM Hans Moke Niemann 2.5
10. 🇺🇸 GM Ray Robson 2.5
11. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 2
12. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 1

Individual round results:

Jeffery Xiong 0.5-0.5 Grigoriy Oparin

Sam Shankland 0-1 Fabiano Caruana

Sam Sevian 0.5-0.5 Ray Robson

Wesley So 0.5-0.5 Abhimanyu Mishra

Awonder Liang 1-0 Levon Aronian

Hans Moke Niemann 0.5-0.5 Andy Woodward

The US Chess Championships 2026 takes place from October 9 to 21, 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 one Round-Robin between 12 players.

Credit: Lennart Ootes