Top 17-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 17-Year-Old Chess Players in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Abhimanyu Mishra	NJ	2709	No change
2	Brewington Hardaway	NY	2584+9	No change
3	Eric Chang Liu	TX	2563	New
4	Harshid Kunka	TX	2498	No change
5	Rose Atwell	CA	2410-8	No change
6	Aryan Gutla	TX	2400	No change
7	Lucius Melillo	TX	2396+4	No change
8	Logan C Shafer	TX	2380-9	No change
9	Qi Pang	NY	2358+1	No change
10	Luke Widjaja	CA	2345	No change
11	Eric Z Feng	MA	2337	New
12	Iris Mou	NY	2320	No change
13	Broderick Bauml	OH	2306-2	No change
14	Luc William Crim Hoffman	NY	2298+8	2 places up nationally since last month
15	Alex Zhang	MO	2294	No change
16	Ephraim M Rosenstock	CA	2286-18	2 places down nationally since last month
17	Vishva Nanugonda	CA	2263	No change
18	Pranav Swaminathan	VA	2262	No change
19	Havish Sripada	OR	2243	No change
20	Derin Goktepe	VA	2241	No change
21	Varun Gadi	GA	2232	No change
22	Ronak Hiwale	TX	2230	No change
23	Lohit Krishna Narayana Polisetti	TX	2227	New
23	Sritej Sai Sattaru	FL	2227	No change
25	Ekansh Mehrotra	IL	2216	1 place down nationally since last month
26	Ryan Wang	MA	2215	1 place down nationally since last month
27	Abhiram Sai Pothuri	FL	2213	New
28	Nitish SG Nathan	CA	2210	1 place down nationally since last month
29	Jacob Chiang	CA	2209	1 place down nationally since last month
30	Nate Ziegler	FL	2208+20	6 places up nationally since last month
31	Luke O Hengen	NE	2204	New
32	Beiyang Ni	GA	2203	2 places down nationally since last month
32	Emmanuel Dentchouk	CA	2203	New
34	Ishaan Kodarapu	OR	2202	3 places down nationally since last month
34	Ubaldo Lopez-Naranjo	FL	2202+54	8 places up nationally since last month
36	Kevin Su	VA	2198-17	11 places down nationally since last month
37	Spencer Chin	NY	2194	3 places down nationally since last month
38	Chloe Gaw	NY	2191-15	9 places down nationally since last month
39	Alexander Zlodorev	MD	2189	4 places down nationally since last month
40	Kaustubh KodihalliExpired	CA	2187	3 places down nationally since last month
41	Arav Patel	FL	2171+67	14 places up nationally since last month
42	Sudeep Vadderaju	MO	2168	3 places down nationally since last month
43	Quan Tran	NJ	2161	3 places down nationally since last month
44	Ethan Y Liang	AZ	2160+13	1 place down nationally since last month
45	Yanfeng Guo	CA	2152	4 places down nationally since last month
46	Arvind Kankesh Thiagarajan	MN	2150+11	1 place down nationally since last month
47	Naveen Paruchuri	NY	2147+14	No change
47	Jerrick Zhang	AZ	2147+17	1 place up nationally since last month
49	jerry yao	FL	2146	5 places down nationally since last month
50	Arjun Damaraju	CA	2134	4 places down nationally since last month
51	Advait Nair	FL	2133+4	2 places down nationally since last month
52	Sreekar Gangavarapu	IL	2129	3 places down nationally since last month
53	Saathvik Dasari	TX	2127	2 places down nationally since last month
54	Minghao Gu	OH	2121	2 places down nationally since last month
55	Ty Dutoit	HI	2118	New
56	David Alexander Mashkov	CT	2116+4	2 places down nationally since last month
57	Pasha Dashti	KY	2113-2	4 places down nationally since last month
58	John Blomer	MN	2105+10	No change
59	Mohit Anirudh Prasad Maringanti	MO	2097+11	8 places up nationally since last month
60	Atharva Bist	TX	2093	1 place down nationally since last month
61	Henri Van Zandweghe	OH	2092	1 place down nationally since last month
62	Havish Kunchanapalli	AR	2090-8	5 places down nationally since last month
63	Ayden Huang	MO	2088	2 places down nationally since last month
64	Tanush Srihanuman Komatineni	CA	2087+23	13 places up nationally since last month
64	Abinav Dinesh	OH	2087	No change
64	Oskar Zoffer	MA	2087	No change
67	Jay Feng	IL	2086	No change
68	Ajitesh Nair	TX	2084	1 place up nationally since last month
69	Yaseen Osman	FL	2078	New
70	Mateo James Lucero	NM	2076+38	13 places up nationally since last month
71	Justin Alexander Lee	AZ	2071-17	10 places down nationally since last month
71	Dominic Nathan Paragua	NY	2071	3 places up nationally since last month
73	Grayson Rhines	VA	2070+46	14 places up nationally since last month
73	Brayden Van de Graaff	UT	2070+20	7 places up nationally since last month
75	Rijul Shah	NY	2069+2	No change
75	Avery Yu	CA	2069-19	14 places down nationally since last month
77	Ethan Harrison	MN	2068+15	2 places up nationally since last month
78	Chloe Wang	PA	2065	2 places down nationally since last month
79	David Wolf Milstein	NJ	2046+1	2 places up nationally since last month
80	Lucas Xiong	NJ	2044	New
81	Raghav Arun	NC	2043-2	No change
82	Ameya Haldankar	VA	2038+1	2 places up nationally since last month
83	Evan Koehl	IN	2032	2 places up nationally since last month
84	Hemanth Samayamantri	IL	2028	2 places up nationally since last month
85	Travis Blaise Kinney	CA	2026+7	6 places up nationally since last month
86	Nikhilesh Ram	NC	2024	1 place up nationally since last month
86	Nathan Booncharoen	NY	2024	1 place up nationally since last month
88	Marius Cutitaru	NC	2021	2 places up nationally since last month
89	Jolie Huang	FL	2019	2 places up nationally since last month
89	Rahul Ramesh	NC	2019	2 places up nationally since last month
91	Nathan Eric Ehrenberg	DC	2014	New
92	Samuel Russell Lewis	ME	2012	5 places up nationally since last month
93	Gnana Vardhan Gudla	AZ	2011	New
94	Mohnishkirupaa Palani	TX	2004	5 places up nationally since last month
94	Michael H Li	IL	2004	5 places up nationally since last month
96	Jones Gillman	PA	2003	New
97	Cayden Jackson	VA	1999-16	3 places down nationally since last month
98	Linus Nguyen Eisenberg	CA	1998	New
99	Matteo Runge	LA	1994	New
99	Aaron Kudryavsky	NY	1994	New

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