Top 16-year-old chess players

Official US Chess rankings for October 2026. 100 players are ranked on this list. Movement is measured against September 2026.

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Top 16-Year-Old Chess Players in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Andy Austin Woodward	TX	2704-31	No change
2	Tanitoluwa Adewumi	NY	2557	New
3	Alice Teresa Lee	MN	2546+24	No change
4	Julian Colville	CA	2473+8	1 place up nationally since last month
5	Isaac Wang	CA	2460+1	1 place up nationally since last month
6	Ryo Wenyu Chen	TX	2457-16	2 places down nationally since last month
7	Rachael Li	TX	2451+4	No change
8	Bryan Xie	CA	2415	No change
9	Andrew Jiang	GA	2400	New
10	Dylan Tang	CA	2397	New
11	Brejesh Chakrabarti	FL	2389+19	1 place down nationally since last month
12	Jesse Ren	MI	2373+10	1 place down nationally since last month
13	Henry Deng	CA	2372	4 places down nationally since last month
14	Nathaniel Mullodzhanov	NY	2333-7	2 places down nationally since last month
15	Pranav Sathish	CA	2323	1 place up nationally since last month
16	Narayan Venkatesh	NJ	2322-16	2 places down nationally since last month
17	Matthew Guo Diao	VA	2320	No change
18	Sebastian Suarez	CA	2310-29	5 places down nationally since last month
19	STEPHEN John Willy	WA	2309-15	4 places down nationally since last month
20	Nikash Vemparala	WA	2308-12	3 places down nationally since last month
21	Andrew Guo	CA	2307	2 places down nationally since last month
22	Steve Wongso	AZ	2302	2 places down nationally since last month
23	Anshul P Shetty	IL	2275	2 places down nationally since last month
24	Will Moorhouse	VA	2272+24	4 places up nationally since last month
25	Neeraj Harish	WA	2267+22	4 places up nationally since last month
26	Vedant Maheshwari	CA	2266	4 places down nationally since last month
27	Austin Tang	OR	2262+33	7 places up nationally since last month
27	Nathan Yan	CA	2262	1 place down nationally since last month
29	Tim Shvarts	NY	2259-7	7 places down nationally since last month
30	Advay Bansal	CA	2253-10	5 places down nationally since last month
30	Sunav Adhikari	OH	2253-11	6 places down nationally since last month
32	Ethan Liu	NC	2249	5 places down nationally since last month
33	Gordon Zhenyu Xu	CA	2236	1 place down nationally since last month
33	Anjaneya Sripathy Rao	IL	2236-1	2 places down nationally since last month
33	Jason Jiang	NY	2236	1 place down nationally since last month
36	Maahir Minesh Patel	NJ	2231-12	6 places down nationally since last month
37	Nicholas Belenky	NY	2226	No change
38	Adam Osborne	TN	2219	New
39	Jon Yang	AZ	2215+7	1 place up nationally since last month
39	Owen Levine	VA	2215	1 place down nationally since last month
41	Derek Heath	WA	2208	1 place down nationally since last month
42	Omya Vidyarthi	CA	2203-8	3 places down nationally since last month
43	Faris Zafar	TX	2202+18	5 places up nationally since last month
44	Siddharth Ajay Kurup	MD	2196	New
45	Evan Bates	TX	2192+104	25 places up nationally since last month
46	Chris Ping Liu	KY	2191	2 places down nationally since last month
46	Alexander Zhu	AZ	2191+1	1 place down nationally since last month
48	Steve Alappatt	NC	2187	2 places down nationally since last month
49	Aayush Wadhwa	KS	2185-1	2 places down nationally since last month
49	Neil Natarajan	CT	2185	New
51	Sepehr Golsefidy	CA	2182	New
52	Austin Jin	CA	2180	New
53	Kyle Cheung	NY	2177-4	4 places down nationally since last month
54	Debarghya Das	IL	2176+7	3 places down nationally since last month
55	Neil Lad	TX	2175	New
56	Arav Srivastava	VA	2165+43	5 places up nationally since last month
56	Suyuan Gui	CA	2165	New
58	Aaron Marian	FL	2160-42	15 places down nationally since last month
58	Leo Q Wang	CA	2160-10	8 places down nationally since last month
60	Kanwar Sethi	CA	2159+1	7 places down nationally since last month
61	Vidyuth Kamesh	MO	2155+12	2 places down nationally since last month
62	Shreyan Sarangi	UT	2147	6 places down nationally since last month
63	Timothy Xie	NJ	2144	6 places down nationally since last month
64	Gabriel Paramonos Broyles	AZ	2139-5	7 places down nationally since last month
65	Tori Porat	CA	2135-34	14 places down nationally since last month
66	Gurru Muthukumaran	PA	2130-26	12 places down nationally since last month
67	Bohan Wang	MA	2121	5 places down nationally since last month
68	James Dove	MS	2120	New
69	Brandon Sustento	TX	2119+5	6 places down nationally since last month
70	Siddarth Sriaditya Kunapuli	OH	2117+8	6 places down nationally since last month
71	Andersen Yang	CA	2100+2	6 places down nationally since last month
72	Mack Ibosh Levine	AZ	2098+19	No change
73	Harishkumar Karthikeyan	WA	2096+31	10 places up nationally since last month
74	Imran Champsi	CA	2094	7 places down nationally since last month
74	Gnanadatta Rambha	TN	2094	New
76	Cuihan Ma	NC	2091	8 places down nationally since last month
76	Vyas Vishal	UT	2091	8 places down nationally since last month
78	William Z He	CA	2089+22	2 places up nationally since last month
79	ROHAN Dileep Menon	IL	2087-10	13 places down nationally since last month
80	Jericho D. Carlson	MA	2084-2	9 places down nationally since last month
81	Daniel Videna	CA	2082+24	6 places up nationally since last month
82	Ridhi Varma Danduprolu	AZ	2078+18	3 places up nationally since last month
82	Ashvath Krishnan	VA	2078	9 places down nationally since last month
84	Saharsh Darsh Shetty	VA	2075+29	6 places up nationally since last month
85	Cannon Farragut	FL	2072	7 places down nationally since last month
85	Gabriel Xiong	OH	2072	7 places down nationally since last month
87	Aren C Emrikian	IL	2066	5 places down nationally since last month
87	Kishan Chidipudi	CA	2066	New
89	Namish Kondabathini	NC	2065-8	12 places down nationally since last month
89	Adhiraiyan Murugan Ayyappan	VA	2065	6 places down nationally since last month
91	Michael Zhang	AZ	2064-69	31 places down nationally since last month
91	Jason Bai	CT	2064-3	11 places down nationally since last month
93	Aarna Nitin Warekar	FL	2062-15	19 places down nationally since last month
94	Sahana Aravindakshan	NJ	2061	New
95	Timur Turba	IL	2058-2	10 places down nationally since last month
96	Evelyn Qiao	GA	2053-1	8 places down nationally since last month
97	Roi Weiss	CA	2051	New
98	Gabriel Razmov	WA	2050+7	5 places down nationally since last month
99	Neil Harit	NC	2048	New
100	Avanni Richardson	NC	2046+9	5 places down nationally since last month

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