Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 · Blitz Tiebreak
Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 — Blitz Tiebreak Round 5
Best game of the round
GM Wesley So (2745) vs GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2424), 1-0, King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Yugoslav Variation, Advance Line — replay the game
Critical game
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2704) vs GM Alireza Firouzja (2797), 0-1, East Indian Defense — replay the game
Games
- GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2819) – GM Abhimanyu Mishra (2541) 0-1 game
- GM Erigaisi Arjun (2766) – GM Rameshbabu Vaishali (2345) 1-0 game
- GM Levon Aronian (2714) – GM Vincent Keymer (2628) 1-0 game
- GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2704) – GM Alireza Firouzja (2797) 0-1 game
- GM Anish Giri (2636) – GM Praggnanandhaa R (2712) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Quang Liem Le (2675) – GM Jorden Van Foreest (2659) 0-1 game
- GM Haik M. Martirosyan (2686) – GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2612) 1-0 game
- GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (2765) – GM Magnus Carlsen (2860) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Hans Moke Niemann (2711) – GM Fabiano Caruana (2738) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Richard Rapport (2616) – GM Andrew Hong (2537) 1-0 game
- GM Wesley So (2745) – GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2424) 1-0 game
- GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2734) – GM Vladislav Artemiev (2712) 1-0 game
Standings after round 5
- Carlsen, Magnus
- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
- Artemiev, Vladislav
- Erigaisi Arjun
- Nepomniachtchi, Ian
- Caruana, Fabiano
- Praggnanandhaa R
- Niemann, Hans Moke
- Giri, Anish
- Keymer, Vincent