Top 12-year-old chess players in New York
The 16 highest-rated players from New York on the national US Chess list for October 2026. Anyone from New York who isn’t listed is rated below them. The US column shows each player’s national rank. Movement is measured against September 2026.
| # | Player | US | Rating | Movevs last month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linxi Zhu | #1 | 2420+27 | No change |
| 2 | Kannan Vaidyanathan | #3 | 2340 | No change |
| 3 | Lev Shangin | #4 | 2305+11 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 4 | Chenxuan Ling | #5 | 2296 | New |
| 5 | Winsley Wu | #13 | 2220-4 | 2 places down nationally since last month |
| 6 | Theodore Shin | #27 | 2132-6 | 5 places down nationally since last month |
| 7 | Lucas Yang | #33 | 2054+15 | 6 places up nationally since last month |
| 8 | Leo Paas | #34 | 2050+2 | No change |
| 9 | Hudson Wong | #37 | 2041+31 | 8 places up nationally since last month |
| 10 | Samuel Cheng | #47 | 1995 | New |
| 11 | David Johnathan Carr | #55 | 1971-24 | 6 places down nationally since last month |
| 12 | Eugene Wong | #56 | 1965+50 | 22 places up nationally since last month |
| 13 | Ari Hoffman | #58 | 1957 | New |
| 14 | Sawyer L Sarwar | #73 | 1915 | New |
| 15 | Logan Freiman | #79 | 1904 | 5 places up nationally since last month |
| 16 | Raza Mikal Patel | #95 | 1874 | 1 place up nationally since last month |