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2026 U.S. Chess Championships

Oct 9–22, 2026 Saint Louis Chess Club, Saint Louis, MO Classical 12-player round robin, 11 rounds Round 4 of 11

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Official broadcast from the Saint Louis Chess Club. Rounds start daily at 12:00 p.m. Central.

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Points from broadcast games. Official standings may apply tiebreaks.

Standings

Open standings
#PlayerRatingPointsW–D–L
1 Wesley So 2774 3 2–2–0
1 Fabiano Caruana 2789 3 2–2–0
3 Awonder Liang 2693 2½ 2–1–1
3 Andy Woodward 2609 2½ 1–3–0
5 Levon Aronian 2725 2 0–4–0
5 Sam Shankland 2646 2 1–2–1
5 Jeffery Xiong 2656 2 2–0–2
5 Grigoriy Oparin 2638 2 1–2–1
5 Hans Niemann 2725 2 1–2–1
10 Abhimanyu Mishra 2636 1½ 0–3–1
11 Ray Robson 2659 1 0–2–2
12 Sam Sevian 2708 ½ 0–1–3

Round 4 complete. Official standings from the organizer; tiebreaks may apply.

Players: Caruana, So, Niemann, Aronian, Liang, Sevian, Robson, Xiong, Shankland, Mishra, Woodward, Oparin

The 2026 U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women’s Chess Championship are being played at the Saint Louis Chess Club from October 9 to 21, with a playoff day on October 22 if a title is tied. Each championship is a 12-player round robin of 11 classical rounds, with more than $400,000 in combined prizes.

Rounds start at 12:00 p.m. Central (10:00 a.m. Pacific, 1:00 p.m. Eastern). Rest days are October 13 and October 18. The live broadcast above switches to each day’s coverage when the round begins and shows the latest replay between rounds.

U.S. Championship field

Fabiano Caruana (defending champion), Wesley So, Hans Niemann, Levon Aronian, Awonder Liang, Sam Sevian, Ray Robson, Jeffery Xiong, Sam Shankland, Abhimanyu Mishra, Andy Woodward, Grigoriy Oparin.

U.S. Women’s Championship field

Carissa Yip (defending champion), Alice Lee, Irina Krush, Rose Atwell, Tatev Abrahamyan, Anna Sargsyan, Rachael Li, Jennifer Yu, Anna Zatonskih, Nazi Paikidze, Thalia Cervantes, Megan Paragua.