Top 12-year-old chess players

Official US Chess rankings for October 2026. 101 players are ranked on this list. Movement is measured against September 2026.

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Top 12-Year-Old Chess Players in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Linxi Zhu	NY	2420+27	No change
2	Ted Wang	WA	2379+7	No change
3	Kannan Vaidyanathan	NY	2340	No change
4	Lev Shangin	NY	2305+11	1 place up nationally since last month
5	Chenxuan Ling	NY	2296	New
6	Alexander Jasinski	FL	2274+27	3 places up nationally since last month
7	Zachary Pan	MA	2271+12	No change
8	Santhosh Ayyappan	TX	2260+8	No change
9	Tariq Yue	PA	2251-25	3 places down nationally since last month
10	Rishith Bhoopathi	NJ	2236+18	2 places up nationally since last month
11	Steven Liu	MD	2233+1	1 place down nationally since last month
12	Ashwin Iranian Prabhu Kumar	OH	2227+9	No change
13	Royce Zhang	RI	2220	New
13	Winsley Wu	NY	2220-4	2 places down nationally since last month
15	Ariv Debmisra	PA	2204+26	3 places up nationally since last month
15	Rocky Wang	MI	2204	New
17	Aimee Yang	PA	2201-2	2 places down nationally since last month
18	Arthur Zhou	MA	2190+10	1 place down nationally since last month
18	Srihas Sai Sarvesh Maddipati	TX	2190	New
20	Vishnu Chetlapalli	TX	2181	New
21	Rafael Palathingal	WA	2172-6	3 places down nationally since last month
22	Liam Liu	CA	2164-46	8 places down nationally since last month
23	Oscar Yihang Zhang	TX	2162+22	2 places down nationally since last month
24	Francis Gio Bigol Ordanza	CA	2149+37	2 places up nationally since last month
25	Joshua Xia	CA	2148	New
26	Rishi Kolli	TX	2142-20	6 places down nationally since last month
27	Theodore Shin	NY	2132-6	5 places down nationally since last month
28	Young Cui	CA	2124	3 places down nationally since last month
29	Artin Atoufi	AZ	2103-3	1 place down nationally since last month
30	Tanqi Li	IN	2088-20	3 places down nationally since last month
31	Siddharth Bhaskaran	TX	2084	1 place down nationally since last month
32	Charles Huang	MA	2081+14	1 place down nationally since last month
33	Lucas Yang	NY	2054+15	6 places up nationally since last month
34	Leo Paas	NY	2050+2	No change
35	Jacob S Wang	CA	2047	No change
36	Gallagher Kelsch	WV	2045	No change
37	Hudson Wong	NY	2041+31	8 places up nationally since last month
38	Leonel Bee	TX	2040+26	6 places up nationally since last month
39	Julian Ma	NJ	2027-29	7 places down nationally since last month
40	Laura Zhang	NC	2024-6	No change
41	Veronique Joseph	WA	2021-19	3 places down nationally since last month
42	Tamaghna Roy	SC	2006+29	10 places up nationally since last month
43	Alexander Xu Li	MA	2005-4	3 places up nationally since last month
44	Alexander Zheng Zhou	VA	2003+28	11 places up nationally since last month
45	Lerui Zheng	MI	1998-19	3 places down nationally since last month
45	Aariv Agrawal	NM	1998+68	22 places up nationally since last month
47	Samuel Cheng	NY	1995	New
48	Haoran Yang	AZ	1992+84	32 places up nationally since last month
48	Sujia Diao	NJ	1992+65	20 places up nationally since last month
50	Manish B Kashyap	NJ	1988+11	2 places up nationally since last month
51	Leo Ni	CA	1982+16	7 places up nationally since last month
52	Rayansh Maheshwari	CA	1980-13	2 places down nationally since last month
52	Mikhail Grigorev	CA	1980+22	7 places up nationally since last month
54	Kawin Sayi Suresh	TX	1972-5	2 places down nationally since last month
55	David Johnathan Carr	NY	1971-24	6 places down nationally since last month
56	Eugene Wong	NY	1965+50	22 places up nationally since last month
56	Lucas Maokhampio	OR	1965-6	No change
58	Ari Hoffman	NY	1957	New
59	Navyan Reddy Bandatmakuru	AZ	1956	1 place up nationally since last month
60	Pranav kandi	TX	1954+14	5 places up nationally since last month
61	Michael Lin	WA	1946+34	18 places up nationally since last month
61	Frank Zhongtian Cao	MA	1946+1	2 places up nationally since last month
63	Leo Daniel Olivera Jackson	TX	1944+19	8 places up nationally since last month
64	Isaac Lien	CA	1942+46	22 places up nationally since last month
65	Lucas Silvestre	IL	1941-60	17 places down nationally since last month
66	Matthew Mingming Liu	MN	1940-6	4 places down nationally since last month
67	Nischay Shyam Peela	NC	1936+29	14 places up nationally since last month
68	Saeed Hoja	TN	1935-7	4 places down nationally since last month
69	Anirudh Anand	MI	1934	New
70	Ryun Fei	IL	1929	New
71	Krivi R Madireddy	CA	1923+52	27 places up nationally since last month
72	Stanley Ren	MI	1917+10	9 places up nationally since last month
73	Sawyer L Sarwar	NY	1915	New
73	Joseph Toth	FL	1915-4	3 places up nationally since last month
75	Suhas Varma Indukuri	CA	1914-13	7 places down nationally since last month
76	Kritarth Acharya	PA	1912	New
77	Mark Gao	FL	1910+22	11 places up nationally since last month
78	Abhinav Das	TX	1906	New
79	Logan Freiman	NY	1904	5 places up nationally since last month
80	Jaden Bao Chen	CA	1903+16	10 places up nationally since last month
81	Blake Zhang	CA	1902+14	7 places up nationally since last month
82	Philip T Zheng	TX	1899+1	3 places up nationally since last month
83	Ojas Tendulkar	TX	1895+18	12 places up nationally since last month
84	Jairaj Desai	GA	1891+5	7 places up nationally since last month
85	Rishin Jehin	AZ	1890-32	13 places down nationally since last month
85	Damian Alexander	FL	1890-16	2 places down nationally since last month
87	Ryan Garg	PA	1887-30	10 places down nationally since last month
88	Aryan Vuyyuru	TX	1886+5	5 places up nationally since last month
89	Vivaan Lodha	TN	1884-37	15 places down nationally since last month
89	Krish Mahajan	MN	1884	3 places up nationally since last month
91	Reyansh Rao	AZ	1883-52	25 places down nationally since last month
92	Kiara Sajish Pavithran	OK	1877	New
93	Yipei Wan	NJ	1876	New
93	Matthew Zhang	OH	1876	New
95	Raza Mikal Patel	NY	1874	1 place up nationally since last month
95	Aarav Ghosh	TN	1874-15	8 places down nationally since last month
97	Dhruv Thokur	NC	1872-7	3 places down nationally since last month
98	Ziqian Gao	WA	1869-5	2 places down nationally since last month
99	Ekam S Sardar	OR	1867	New
99	Avik Saha	CA	1867	New
99	Preash Mayank Vadher	TX	1867-2	No change

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