The first day of the GCT Sinquefield Cup 2026 in USA has concluded. After 1 round, Fabiano Caruana leads with 1 point, while Wesley So is in second place with 0.5 points.

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana is the only player to win a game in the round. Caruana defeated 🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest in 55 moves. Fabiano played the game with 98.0 accuracy, while Foreest’s was 93.0.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 1
2. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 0.5
3. 🇫🇷 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 0.5
4. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 0.5
5. 🇳🇱 GM Anish Giri 0.5
6. 🇩🇪 GM Vincent Keymer 0.5
7. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 0.5
8. 🇺🇿 GM Javokhir Sindarov 0.5
9. 🇮🇳 GM Praggnanandhaa R 0.5
10. 🇳🇱 GM Jorden van Foreest 0

Individual round results:

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov 0.5-0.5 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian

🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer 0.5-0.5 🇺🇸 Wesley So

🇺🇸 Sam Sevian 0.5-0.5 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R

🇳🇱 Anish Giri 0.5-0.5 🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana 1-0 🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest

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