The 5th day of the US Chess Championships 2026 in Saint Louis has concluded. After 5 rounds, two players share the lead with 3.5 points each, with Wesley So leading on tiebreaks.

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana lost his game to 16-year-old 🇺🇸 Andy Woodward. Caruana lost 7.2 points and dropped to 4th place in the live rating with 2780.3 points. 🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov became World’s No. 3 for the first time with 2782.0 points.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 3.5
2. 🇺🇸 GM Andy Woodward 3.5
3. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 3
4. 🇺🇸 GM Jeffery Xiong 3
5. 🇺🇸 GM Awonder Liang 3
6. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Shankland 2.5
7. 🇺🇸 GM Grigoriy Oparin 2.5
8. 🇺🇸 GM Abhimanyu Mishra 2.5
9. 🇺🇸 GM Hans Moke Niemann 2
10. 🇺🇸 GM Ray Robson 2
11. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 2
12. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 0.5

Individual round results:

Ray Robson 1-0 Hans Moke Niemann

Levon Aronian 0-1 Jeffery Xiong

Andy Woodward 1-0 Fabiano Caruana

Awonder Liang 0.5-0.5 Sam Shankland

Grigoriy Oparin 0.5-0.5 Wesley So

Abhimanyu Mishra 1-0 Sam Sevian

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: Michal Walusza / FIDE