The fourth day of the Cairns Cup 2026 in USA has concluded. After 4 rounds, Tan Zhongyi leads with 3.5 points, while Alice Lee is in second place with 2.5 points.

🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi defeated 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu in 40 moves. Zhongyi played the game with 89.0 accuracy, while Vaishali’s was 77.9.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇨🇳 GM Tan Zhongyi 3.5
2. 🇺🇸 IM Alice Lee 2.5
3. 🇬🇷 IM Stavroula Tsolakidou 2.5
4. 🇰🇿 GM Bibisara Assaubayeva 2.5
5. 🇮🇳 GM Divya Deshmukh 2.5
6. 🇺🇦 GM Anna Muzychuk 2
7. 🇺🇸 IM Carissa Yip 2
8. 🇮🇳 GM Humpy Koneru 1.5
9. 🇮🇳 GM Vaishali R 1
10. 🇨🇭 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 0

Individual round results:

🇬🇷 Stavroula Tsolakidou 1-0 🇺🇸 Alice Lee

🇺🇸 Carissa Yip 0.5-0.5 🇮🇳 Divya Deshmukh

🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva 1-0 🇨🇭 Alexandra Kosteniuk

🇮🇳 Humpy Koneru 0.5-0.5 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk

🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi 1-0 🇮🇳 Vaishali R

The Cairns Cup 2026 takes place from August 10 to 19, 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