Top 9-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 9-Year-Old Chess Players in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Mehmet Yilanli	OH	2096+30	No change
2	Renae Chen	CA	2076+29	No change
3	Brian Ye	CA	2054+44	1 place up nationally since last month
4	Akim Livinskyi	OH	2024+14	No change
5	Brian Dai	CT	2021+144	10 places up nationally since last month
6	Winston Ruiying Chen	NY	2020+5	3 places down nationally since last month
7	Darren Wu	NY	1995+40	1 place up nationally since last month
8	Kiaan Desai	OH	1964+73	6 places up nationally since last month
9	Devansh Vellanki	MA	1959-3	3 places down nationally since last month
10	Charles B Bernstein	NY	1954-4	3 places down nationally since last month
11	Charlotte Tai-En Chang	NY	1945-8	2 places down nationally since last month
12	Max Mulholland	NY	1940-8	2 places down nationally since last month
13	Emily Jiaying Tang	IL	1924-15	No change
14	Matthew Zhang	CA	1920-25	2 places down nationally since last month
15	Ridhaan Dande	FL	1900+170	17 places up nationally since last month
16	Samir P Salem	KY	1892+44	No change
17	Kaihan Liu	CA	1877+45	1 place up nationally since last month
18	William Zheng	AZ	1873+102	7 places up nationally since last month
19	Davin M Nguyen	CA	1846+4	2 places down nationally since last month
20	Khabir Muhammad	NC	1813+10	No change
21	Viaan Khandelwal	CO	1812+12	No change
22	Harrison Moscona	NY	1787+21	5 places up nationally since last month
23	Mustafa Muhammad	NC	1780	No change
24	Advaithkrishna Rajeshkanna	TX	1765-6	1 place up nationally since last month
25	Harrison Cai	NY	1760+7	3 places up nationally since last month
26	Johann Jayabarath	SC	1758+59	12 places up nationally since last month
27	Jack Tang	MO	1753+74	13 places up nationally since last month
28	Arthit Dasgupta	PA	1750-32	6 places down nationally since last month
29	Aarush Dolli	IN	1742+137	27 places up nationally since last month
30	Brooks Jiang	MA	1739+6	No change
30	Mahith Balamurali	TX	1739-70	11 places down nationally since last month
32	Aaron Benjamin Noshadi	CA	1733+48	7 places up nationally since last month
33	Jerry Liang	NY	1731+6	No change
33	Winnie Tsuchida-Tomashevsky	NY	1731-21	4 places down nationally since last month
35	Evan Sebastian Miller	NY	1726+5	1 place down nationally since last month
36	Tamiliniyan Padmanaban	CA	1717+116	24 places up nationally since last month
37	Khesav Prabhu	CA	1695+44	10 places up nationally since last month
38	Preston Liu	NY	1694-19	3 places down nationally since last month
39	Harvey Wang	WA	1672+26	9 places up nationally since last month
40	Jayden Jin	TX	1670+44	10 places up nationally since last month
40	Avrora Okonova	NY	1670	3 places up nationally since last month
42	Sebastian Emilio Alanis	NY	1662	New
43	Ratul Rahula Krishnan	KS	1661	2 places up nationally since last month
44	Teddy Mazur	MO	1657+71	20 places up nationally since last month
45	Leo Cao	NJ	1647-55	8 places down nationally since last month
46	Rihaan Rahul	OR	1641	New
47	Beckett Houston Lasch	TX	1631+86	35 places up nationally since last month
48	Ryan Lai	WA	1630	New
49	Jeevesh Koneti	MI	1629-8	No change
50	Skandha Raj	WA	1628-27	4 places down nationally since last month
51	Mark Xu	NJ	1626-39	7 places down nationally since last month
52	Sai Viraj Salguti	OH	1619+15	5 places up nationally since last month
53	Usara Madirawalage	TX	1613	2 places down nationally since last month
54	Brandon Li	NY	1610	1 place down nationally since last month
54	Nathaniel Githin Koshy	TX	1610+12	8 places up nationally since last month
56	Pranav Reddy Sridhar	TX	1609+108	33 places up nationally since last month
57	Zhaoqijun Gong	MI	1608	3 places down nationally since last month
58	Gal Reichfeld	PA	1606	3 places down nationally since last month
59	Shyra Nigam	PA	1604+62	24 places up nationally since last month
60	Jordan Kim	NY	1595-83	19 places down nationally since last month
61	Coeus Li	FL	1594	2 places up nationally since last month
62	Bo-Yuan Nathan Wang	NJ	1592+26	14 places up nationally since last month
63	Halo Nomura	NY	1585+101	32 places up nationally since last month
64	Viaan Chaudhary	PA	1583-127	28 places down nationally since last month
65	Jacob Ernest Bleiberg	NY	1582-21	7 places down nationally since last month
66	Neeraj Rao	CA	1581-20	6 places down nationally since last month
66	Maxim Rowland	CT	1581	1 place up nationally since last month
68	Aiden Liu	AZ	1573+20	11 places up nationally since last month
69	Ethan Chen	CA	1571+9	9 places up nationally since last month
70	Luca Iuga Martyanov	NC	1569	1 place up nationally since last month
71	Jacob Mishuris	MA	1568	1 place up nationally since last month
72	Everett Gong	NY	1567-17	6 places down nationally since last month
73	Atharv Upadrasta	TX	1562-5	No change
73	Mokshith Kumar Mallapu	OR	1562	New
75	Azariah Chen	CA	1560+94	23 places up nationally since last month
76	Abeer Sethi	NJ	1556-46	17 places down nationally since last month
77	Tristan Zhang	NC	1553-59	25 places down nationally since last month
78	Noah Chen	NY	1549-18	5 places down nationally since last month
79	Ryan Chang	NY	1546	2 places up nationally since last month
80	Mikhail Lagzdin	WA	1542-25	7 places down nationally since last month
81	Darren Zhang	NY	1534-15	1 place down nationally since last month
82	Avyukt Varma Thalluri	VA	1517	New
83	Ashwath Pradeep	CA	1514-59	14 places down nationally since last month
83	Andrew Thomas Deutsch	CA	1514+11	4 places up nationally since last month
85	Sathvik Gondle	TX	1511	New
86	Viaan Ishan Ghosh	NJ	1502	New
86	Shourjo Chatterjee	TX	1502	New
88	Max Meng	IN	1500-7	2 places down nationally since last month
89	Shrinika Musuluri	NC	1496+33	11 places up nationally since last month
90	Vasu P Varun	NY	1490-12	2 places down nationally since last month
91	Suhaan Kesavan	OR	1489	New
92	Mukhil Krishnan Vadivel Raja	SC	1480	New
93	Emma Ge	WA	1478	New
93	Mithran Raaja	NC	1478+9	3 places up nationally since last month
95	Charles Wong	TX	1476	New
96	Aryan Pande	WA	1474	New
97	Adam Ye	NJ	1468	No change
98	Tim Li	NJ	1467	New
99	Sofia Byelashova	WA	1466	1 place down nationally since last month
100	Amogh Akshay Lohe	OH	1464	New

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