The 3rd day of the GCT Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 in Bucharest has concluded. After 3 rounds, 5 players share the lead with 2 points each, with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leading on tiebreaks.

🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja made a decisive inaccuracy in the endgame and lost to 🇳🇱 Anish Giri in 72 moves. Alireza played the game with 93.2 accuracy, while Giri’s was 95.7.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇫🇷 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2
2. 🇳🇱 GM Anish Giri 2
3. 🇩🇪 GM Vincent Keymer 2
4. 🇳🇱 GM Jorden v. Foreest 2
5. 🇮🇳 GM Praggnanandhaa R 2
6. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 1.5
7. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 1.5
8. 🇺🇿 GM Javokhir Sindarov 1
9. 🇷🇴 GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac 0.5
10. 🇫🇷 GM Alireza Firouzja 0.5

The GCT Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 takes place from May 14 to 23, at the National Bank of Romania, Bucharest. 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