The Sinquefield Cup 2025, the fifth and final event of the Grand Chess Tour (GCT) 2025, is held from August 18 to August 28, 2025, at the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. It’s a 10-player single round-robin tournament with a classical time control of 90 minutes for forty minutes, plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus a 30-second increment per move. The event features nine full-tour players and one wildcard, including top Grandmasters like Fabiano Caruana (World Rank #3, FIDE Rating 2784), Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (World Rank #4, FIDE Rating 2779), Gukesh Dommaraju (World Rank #6, FIDE Rating 2776), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (World Rank #7, FIDE Rating 2771), Alireza Firouzja (World Rank #8, FIDE Rating 2766), Wesley So (World Rank #12, FIDE Rating 2745), Levon Aronian (World Rank #16, FIDE Rating 2737), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (World Rank #18, FIDE Rating 2736), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (World Rank #24, FIDE Rating 2725), and Samuel Sevian (World Rank #40, FIDE Rating 2683).
The Sinquefield Cup 2025 is among the major tournaments on The Chess Calendar and live games will be daily on Chessdom
More top event: Akiba Rubinstein Memorial / USA vs India Chess / Top Chess Engine Championship
Sinquefield Cup 2025 live games
Sinquefield Cup winners
| 2013: Magnus Carlsen |
| 2014: Fabiano Caruana |
| 2015: Levon Aronian |
| 2016: Wesley So |
| 2017: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
| 2018: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian (co-winners, no playoff) |
| 2019: Ding Liren (won on tiebreak against Magnus Carlsen) |
| 2020: No tournament (canceled due to COVID-19) |
| 2021: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
| 2022: Alireza Firouzja (won on tiebreak against Ian Nepomniachtchi) |
| 2023: Fabiano Caruana |
| 2024: Alireza Firouzja |
