GM Levon Aronian leads the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz with a perfect 6/6 score after the first three rounds of rapid chess. GM Fabiano Caruana had a strong start as well with 5/6—two wins and a draw. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju bounced back from a round-one loss to finish on 4/6, while GM Wesley So is on the same score with two draws and a win.
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will continue with rounds four through six of the rapid segment on Tuesday, August 12, starting at 1:10 p.m. ET / 19:10 CEST / 10:40 p.m. IST.
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, So, Gukesh, GM Nodirbek Abdosattorov, Caruana, and Aronian are the six tour players participating. Invited wildcards are GMs Leinier Dominguez, Liem Le, Sam Shankland, and Grigoriy Oparin. You can see the tour standings below; the top four players, after five tournaments, will qualify for the tour Finals in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September—the first Finals held since 2019.
GMs Alireza Firouzja and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu are the two players in the top four who are not participating in this one.