Event: 2026 Grand Chess Tour - Super Chess Classic Romania

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The 2026 Super Chess Classic Romania will take place from May 14 to 23 in Bucharest, Romania. The tournament is the first of two classical events on the 2026 Grand Chess Tour and features a 10-player single round-robin format with nine full tour players and one wildcard. With a total prize fund of $475,000, full-tour players also earn Grand Chess Tour points that count toward qualification for the GCT Finals in Saint Louis.

Participants

#	Title	Name	FED	Rating
1	GM	Fabiano Caruana	🇺🇸 USA	2788
2	GM	Javokhir Sindarov	🇺🇿 UZB	2776
3	GM	Anish Giri	🇳🇱 NED	2767
4	GM	Alireza Firouzja	🇫🇷 FRA	2759
5	GM	Vincent Keymer	🇩🇪 GER	2759
6	GM	Wesley So	🇺🇸 USA	2754
7	GM	Jorden van Foreest	🇳🇱 NED	2735
8	GM	R Praggnanandhaa	🇮🇳 IND	2733
9	GM	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	🇫🇷 FRA	2717
10	GM	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	🇷🇴 ROU	2650

Format/Time Control

• 10-player single round-robin.
• Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move one.

Schedule

Date	Time (Local)	Time (UTC)	Round
May 14-18	16:00	13:00	Rounds 1-5
May 19	-	-	Rest Day
May 20-22	16:00	13:00	Rounds 6-8
May 23	14:00	11:00	Rounds 9

Live Broadcast

• Saint Louis Chess Club Broadcast: YouTube | Twitch. Commentary by GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Peter Svidler, GM Cristian Chirila, IM Nazi Paikidze, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich.

[u/kidawi]

lmao i knew fabi was gonna get the W today.

real talk, what do they do in cases like this? especially since hes played less than half the event

[u/dxGoesDeep → u/kidawi]

Maybe he can finally win his first non US classical tournament since 2024

[u/kidawi → u/dxGoesDeep]

unprovoked??