Top online blitz chess players age 18–49

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 Online Blitz Chess Players Age 18–49 in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Balaji Daggupati	CA	2314	No change
2	Thalia Cervantes	MO	2305	No change
3	Vyom Vidyarthi	CA	2293	No change
4	Kent Slate	VA	2261+1	No change
5	Brayan Angel Amaya	FL	2226	No change
6	Paris Prestia	CA	2218	No change
7	Matt Chan	CT	2216	No change
7	Derek Zhang	WA	2216	No change
9	Thomas Lane	VA	2184	No change
10	Alec Daniel Aimdilokwong	IA	2181	No change
11	Austin R Mei	CA	2170	No change
12	Justin Weicheng Zhang	IL	2151	New
13	Nathaniel Philip Moor	CT	2144	1 place down nationally since last month
14	Justin J Sarkar	NY	2135+1	1 place down nationally since last month
15	Matthew J O'Brien	PA	2119	No change
16	Krishna Saketh Mutnuri	AZ	2107	1 place up nationally since last month
16	Tanay Ram Kurre	TX	2107-21	2 places down nationally since last month
18	Kushan Tyagi	IA	2106	No change
19	Nicklas Breskin	NY	2091	No change
20	Timothy F Mccall	VA	2090	No change
21	Benedict Smail	NV	2084-35	6 places down nationally since last month
22	Daniel Herman	CO	2079	No change
23	Rohan Das	CA	2077	No change
24	Sam Schenk	VA	2069+1	No change
25	Arsal Gardezi	TX	2061	No change
26	Connor W Izard	NY	2040	No change
27	Goktug Bas	NJ	2030-1	No change
27	Advay Singi	TX	2030	1 place up nationally since last month
29	Amudan Mangudi	AZ	2028	No change
30	Ronen Wilson	VA	2017	1 place up nationally since last month
31	Joshua Ramsey	FL	2011-73	10 places down nationally since last month
32	Sam Charles Laikin	VA	2010+130	29 places up nationally since last month
33	Maxwell Barnes	OK	2007-14	3 places down nationally since last month
34	John Lucian Goins	FL	2004+1	1 place down nationally since last month
35	Ted Belanoff	ME	2000-6	3 places down nationally since last month
36	Alex Nguyen	CA	1991	2 places down nationally since last month
37	Epiphany M Peters	TN	1988	2 places down nationally since last month
38	Luke Campopiano	VA	1958	2 places down nationally since last month
39	Abhinav Chinnambeti	NJ	1956	2 places down nationally since last month
39	Mohamed K Elshazly	IN	1956+88	25 places up nationally since last month
41	Nickolas Petersen	CO	1953	3 places down nationally since last month
42	Samuel G Baskarraj	AL	1952	3 places down nationally since last month
43	Brian G Chan	MD	1951	3 places down nationally since last month
44	Benjamin Emmanuel Hoback	AK	1950+16	No change
45	Alex Li	TX	1940	2 places down nationally since last month
46	Michael Lei Wang	MI	1933+1	1 place down nationally since last month
47	Arslan Jumaniyazov	IN	1931+37	8 places up nationally since last month
48	Joao Otavio Benevides Demasi	MN	1928	1 place down nationally since last month
49	Javier Silva	CA	1922+6	1 place up nationally since last month
50	Benjamin E Durost	WI	1921	2 places down nationally since last month
51	William Molina	TX	1919	2 places down nationally since last month
52	Akil Kumar Murugan	NJ	1913	1 place down nationally since last month
53	Tyler Shane Hug	MI	1908-24	8 places down nationally since last month
54	Ujwal Garine	WA	1907-42	12 places down nationally since last month
54	Hayk Sardaryan	CA	1907	2 places down nationally since last month
56	Daniel Shapiro	GA	1906	3 places down nationally since last month
57	Andrew Gregory Duren	SC	1898	3 places down nationally since last month
58	Jason Romsak	VA	1891	2 places down nationally since last month
59	Jessica Hyatt	NY	1890	2 places down nationally since last month
60	Matthew Herbert Freeman	VA	1886	2 places down nationally since last month
61	Aethelred Magni Hildebrandt Templin	WI	1884	2 places down nationally since last month
62	Briely Corwin Gunn	MN	1883	2 places down nationally since last month
63	Cody Oldham	CA	1880	New
64	Daniel Joseph Guel	TX	1874	2 places down nationally since last month
65	Sean A Kirchman	IL	1869	2 places down nationally since last month
66	Aaron Caveny	TN	1868+59	14 places up nationally since last month
67	Enoch Martinez	NV	1867	2 places down nationally since last month
68	Andrew Goldfarb	NJ	1866+11	1 place up nationally since last month
68	Noah Polacek	NE	1866	2 places down nationally since last month
70	Mikel Adrian Clark-Arroniz	GA	1862	2 places down nationally since last month
71	Brent McCreesh	CT	1853	No change
72	David Aleksandrovich Smygov	WA	1850	No change
73	David Li	IL	1848	No change
74	Seth Osborne	TN	1841	New
75	Finn Belew	ID	1839	New
76	JOSH dee Pruett	AR	1834+24	3 places up nationally since last month
77	William Houston Lovett	TX	1827	3 places down nationally since last month
78	Alex Strobehn	MI	1825-1	3 places down nationally since last month
79	Aaron Alejandro Araujo-Hernandez	NV	1813	1 place down nationally since last month
80	Christopher P Snell	TX	1808	1 place up nationally since last month
80	Miguel Garcia	NY	1808	1 place up nationally since last month
82	Zane Wirkkala	WA	1806	1 place up nationally since last month
83	Lauren Goodkind	CA	1804	2 places up nationally since last month
84	Ruolin Huang	WA	1802-52	14 places down nationally since last month
85	Evan Zheng	HI	1800	1 place up nationally since last month
85	Hursh Mehta	CA	1800	New
87	Bradley Charles	KY	1795	New
88	Gordon Harry Meiners	TN	1794-21	11 places down nationally since last month
89	Dylan Gould	CA	1784	New
90	Roy Walter Harwell	NC	1779	1 place down nationally since last month
91	CHRISTOPHER Adrian Harris	GA	1777	1 place down nationally since last month
92	Jake Nemeth	CA	1774	1 place down nationally since last month
93	Sanjeev Anand	GA	1771+1	1 place down nationally since last month
94	Beau Sensing	TN	1769	1 place down nationally since last month
95	Igor Chouzhyk	VA	1768	1 place down nationally since last month
96	Tom Shupe	VA	1764	1 place down nationally since last month
96	Daniel Christopher Padgett	FL	1764	1 place down nationally since last month
98	Robert Edward Nelson	MI	1762	New
99	Chad Kern	KS	1760	2 places down nationally since last month
100	Joel Rockey	CA	1759	New

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