The 8th day of the GCT Sinquefield Cup 2026 in USA has concluded. After 8 rounds, two players share the lead with 5 points each, with Wesley So leading on tiebreaks.

🇳🇱 Anish Giri and 🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest are more than 1 point behind the leader and cannot take first place. One round remains, with a maximum of 1 point available.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 5
2. 🇮🇳 GM Praggnanandhaa R 5
3. 🇩🇪 GM Vincent Keymer 4.5
4. 🇺🇿 GM Javokhir Sindarov 4.5
5. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 4
6. 🇫🇷 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 4
7. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 4
8. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 4
9. 🇳🇱 GM Anish Giri 3.5
10. 🇳🇱 GM Jorden v. Foreest 1.5

Individual round results:

🇺🇸 Sam Sevian 0.5-0.5 🇺🇸 Wesley So

🇳🇱 Anish Giri 0.5-0.5 🇺🇸 Levon Aronian

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov 1-0 🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest

🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer 1-0 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana

🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 0-1 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R

The GCT Sinquefield Cup 2026 takes place from August 10 to 20, 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