Top blitz 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 Blitz Chess Players in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Hikaru Nakamura	NY	2910	No change
2	Levon Aronian	MO	2860	1 place up nationally since last month
3	Wesley So	MN	2856-16	1 place down nationally since last month
4	Fabiano Caruana	FL	2833+27	No change
5	Samuel Sevian	MA	2755	No change
6	Abhimanyu Mishra	NJ	2746	No change
7	Ray Robson	MO	2743	No change
8	Grigoriy Oparin	MO	2735	No change
9	Mikhail Antipov	TX	2712	No change
10	Leinier Dominguez Perez	MO	2710	No change
11	Conrad Holt	KS	2673	2 places up nationally since last month
12	Dariusz Swiercz	MO	2666	2 places up nationally since last month
13	Awonder Liang	WI	2661-19	1 place down nationally since last month
14	Sergey Erenburg	VA	2657	1 place up nationally since last month
15	Aleksandr Lenderman	NY	2620-26	1 place up nationally since last month
15	Elshan Moradiabadi	NC	2620	2 places up nationally since last month
15	Robert L Hess	NY	2620	2 places up nationally since last month
18	Ethan T Sheehan	GA	2605+1	2 places up nationally since last month
19	Yuniesky Quesada Perez	MO	2603-14	No change
20	Varuzhan Akobian	MO	2597	1 place up nationally since last month
21	Andrew Tang	MD	2591	1 place up nationally since last month
22	Robert Hungaski	CT	2587	1 place up nationally since last month
23	Ruifeng Li	TX	2586	1 place up nationally since last month
23	Alex Onischuk	TX	2586	1 place up nationally since last month
25	Andy Austin Woodward	TX	2584	1 place up nationally since last month
26	NICOLAS de T Checa	NY	2562	New
27	Andrew Hong	CA	2556+1	1 place up nationally since last month
28	Christopher Woojin Yoo	CA	2554	1 place up nationally since last month
29	Steven Zierk	CA	2543	1 place up nationally since last month
29	Dov Gorman	NJ	2543	1 place up nationally since last month
31	Brewington Hardaway	NY	2537+17	3 places up nationally since last month
32	Raven M Sturt	NY	2536	No change
33	Fidel Corrales Jimenez	CA	2532	No change
34	Joshua E Friedel	WI	2519	1 place up nationally since last month
35	Liam Henry Putnam	NY	2512+29	3 places up nationally since last month
36	Kayden William Troff	NC	2506	No change
37	Nico Werner Chasin	NY	2501+19	2 places up nationally since last month
38	Jianchao Zhou	MA	2499-5	1 place down nationally since last month
39	Maxim Dlugy	PA	2490+12	2 places up nationally since last month
40	Mark Heimann	CA	2482+21	4 places up nationally since last month
41	Sam Schmakel	IL	2480	1 place down nationally since last month
42	John Bartholomew	MN	2468	No change
43	Tanitoluwa Adewumi	NY	2454-11	No change
44	Tianqi Wang	NC	2450+5	2 places up nationally since last month
45	Robert Shlyakhtenko	CA	2447+10	3 places up nationally since last month
46	Bryan Enming Lin	NY	2443-2	No change
47	Dachey Lin	TX	2432+16	5 places up nationally since last month
48	Warren Thomas Harper	TX	2427-24	3 places down nationally since last month
49	Steven Breckenridge	OR	2426	New
50	Aleksandr Ostrovskiy	NY	2424	1 place down nationally since last month
51	Safal Bora	MI	2420	1 place down nationally since last month
52	Aaron Grabinsky	VA	2418	1 place down nationally since last month
53	keaton kiewra	CA	2409	No change
54	James A Rizzitano	DE	2397	1 place up nationally since last month
55	Thomas Bartell	PA	2396	1 place up nationally since last month
56	Daniel M Rensch	UT	2393	1 place up nationally since last month
57	Levy Rozman	NY	2392	1 place up nationally since last month
58	Alexander Katz	CA	2391-15	4 places down nationally since last month
59	Alex Yermolinsky	SD	2386	No change
60	Dmitry Gurevich	IL	2385	No change
61	Ronald W Henley	FL	2383	1 place up nationally since last month
62	Stuart Rachels	AL	2379	1 place up nationally since last month
63	Joshua Posthuma	MI	2378-6	2 places down nationally since last month
64	Anna Sargsyan	MO	2376+14	5 places up nationally since last month
65	Shelev Oberoi	TX	2371	No change
65	Eric Chang Liu	TX	2371	No change
67	Corey Bryan Acor	FL	2370-7	3 places down nationally since last month
68	Mladen Vucic	FL	2367	No change
69	Eric S Rosen	IL	2357-11	2 places down nationally since last month
70	Josiah Stearman	NY	2351	1 place up nationally since last month
71	Joshua Colas	NY	2350	1 place up nationally since last month
72	William John Donaldson	CA	2347	1 place up nationally since last month
73	Irina Krush	NY	2346	1 place up nationally since last month
74	Daniel Cremisi	NC	2345-13	4 places down nationally since last month
75	Andrew Liu	MA	2344	No change
76	Vincent William Stone	FL	2342	No change
77	Dennis Monokroussos	IN	2341	No change
78	Joshua Sheng	CA	2339	No change
79	Anna Zatonskih	—	2338+1	No change
80	Walker Kyle Griggs	OH	2337	1 place down nationally since last month
81	Zachary Chen Tanenbaum	CT	2333	No change
81	Vidip Kumar Kona	WA	2333+27	14 places up nationally since last month
83	Daniel He	WA	2332	1 place down nationally since last month
84	David Brodsky	NY	2329	1 place down nationally since last month
85	Alexander Ivanov	MA	2326	1 place down nationally since last month
86	Maximillian Lu	CT	2325+7	4 places up nationally since last month
87	Linxi Zhu	NY	2323+1	2 places down nationally since last month
88	Alice Teresa Lee	MN	2321	2 places down nationally since last month
89	Roberto Miramontes	TX	2320	1 place down nationally since last month
90	Edward Song	MI	2319	New
91	Nick Raptis	OR	2317-4	5 places down nationally since last month
92	Kirk Ghazarian	CA	2314	1 place down nationally since last month
92	Gunnar Andersen	CO	2314-5	3 places down nationally since last month
94	Isaac Wang	CA	2310	2 places down nationally since last month
95	Nitai Leve	NY	2307	2 places down nationally since last month
95	Jeffrey A Reinberg	TX	2307	2 places down nationally since last month
97	Damir Studen	GA	2301	1 place down nationally since last month
98	Scott Ramer	FL	2299	New
98	Justin Paul	VA	2299	1 place down nationally since last month
100	Marcus Ming Miyasaka	NY	2294	1 place down nationally since last month

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