The third day of the GCT Sinquefield Cup 2026 in USA has concluded. After 3 rounds, Wesley So leads with 2.5 points, while Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is in second place with 2 points.

🇺🇸 Wesley So defeated 🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana in 37 moves. So played the game with 98.6 accuracy, while Caruana’s was 90.4.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇺🇸 GM Wesley So 2.5
2. 🇫🇷 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2
3. 🇺🇸 GM Levon Aronian 2
4. 🇺🇸 GM Fabiano Caruana 1.5
5. 🇩🇪 GM Vincent Keymer 1.5
6. 🇺🇸 GM Sam Sevian 1.5
7. 🇮🇳 GM Praggnanandhaa R 1.5
8. 🇳🇱 GM Anish Giri 1
9. 🇺🇿 GM Javokhir Sindarov 1
10. 🇳🇱 GM Jorden v. Foreest 0.5

Individual round results:

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov 0.5-0.5 🇫🇷 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

🇺🇸 Sam Sevian 1-0 🇳🇱 Anish Giri

🇺🇸 Fabiano Caruana 0-1 🇺🇸 Wesley So

🇩🇪 Vincent Keymer 1-0 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R

🇳🇱 Jorden van Foreest 0.5-0.5 🇺🇸 Levon Aronian

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