The 11th day of the US Chess Championships 2026 in Saint Louis has concluded. After 11 rounds, Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana are tied for first place. They will play a Rapid playoff on October 22.

Sam Sevian was in last place with 0 wins. Wesley So needed to not lose his game in Round 11 to win the tournament. Sam defeated Wesley in 67 moves. So made a critical Inaccuracy on move 48 and lost a significant advantage. Wesley did not manage to recover and resigned 19 moves later.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1-2. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 7
1-2. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 7
3. 🇺🇸 GM Grigoriy Oparin 6.5
4. 🇺🇸 GM Jeffery Xiong 6.5
5. 🇺🇸 GM Andy Woodward 6
6. 🇺🇸 GM Abhimanyu Mishra 5.5
7. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 5.5
8. 🇺🇸 GM Awonder Liang 5.5
9. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Shankland 5
10. 🇺🇸 GM Hans Moke Niemann 4
11. 🇺🇸 GM Ray Robson 4
12. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 3.5

Individual round results:

Sam Sevian 1-0 Wesley So

Hans Moke Niemann 0-1 Jeffery Xiong

Abhimanyu Mishra 0.5-0.5 Sam Shankland

Andy Woodward 0.5-0.5 Levon Aronian

Ray Robson 0.5-0.5 Grigoriy Oparin

Fabiano Caruana 1-0 Awonder Liang

The US Chess Championship 2026 takes place from October 9 to 22, 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: Crystal Fuller