The 8th day of the GCT Super Chess Classic Romania 2026 in Bucharest has concluded. After 8 rounds, two players share the lead with 5 points each, with Fabiano Caruana leading on tiebreaks.

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana and 🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer drew in 48 moves. Fabiano will play with 🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round on May 23, and Vincent will play with 🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 5
2. 🇩🇪 GM Vincent Keymer 5
3. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 4.5
4. 🇳🇱 GM Jorden v. Foreest 4.5
5. 🇺🇿 GM Javokhir Sindarov 4.5
6. 🇳🇱 GM Anish Giri 4
7. 🇫🇷 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 3.5
8. 🇷🇴 GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac 3.5
9. 🇮🇳 GM Praggnanandhaa R 3.5
10. 🇫🇷 GM Alireza Firouzja 1

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