Top online regular chess players age 18–49

Official US Chess rankings for October 2026. 87 players are ranked on this list. Movement is measured against September 2026.

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Top Online Regular Chess Players Age 18–49 in the US (Oct 2026)
#	Player	State	Rating	Movevs last month
1	Thalia Cervantes	MO	2275	No change
2	Justin J Sarkar	NY	2100-7	No change
3	Abhinav Chinnambeti	NJ	1954	No change
4	Matt Chan	CT	1928	No change
5	Ted Belanoff	ME	1862	No change
6	Anish LodhExpired	IA	1859	No change
7	Benjamin Emmanuel Hoback	AK	1855	No change
8	Numa Malts	NJ	1853	No change
9	Aksithi Eswaran	CA	1849	No change
10	Arsal Gardezi	TX	1786	No change
11	Kevin Hemingway	PA	1768	No change
12	Lauren Goodkind	CA	1758	No change
13	Esther Jou	CA	1739	No change
14	Pallavi Nair	TX	1716-1	1 place up nationally since last month
15	Sanjeev Anand	GA	1694+4	1 place up nationally since last month
16	Tyler Shane Hug	MI	1685-38	2 places down nationally since last month
17	Aditya Panikkath	CA	1671	No change
18	Dylan Gould	CA	1652+2	No change
19	Connor W Izard	NY	1648	No change
20	Leteef Z Street	PA	1615	1 place up nationally since last month
21	Evan Zheng	HI	1600	1 place up nationally since last month
22	JUSTIN William Paschal	OH	1578	1 place up nationally since last month
23	Dale William Somers	IL	1576	1 place up nationally since last month
24	Justin Weicheng Zhang	IL	1531	New
25	Jake Nemeth	CA	1516	No change
26	Vinayagaram Vaidhyanathan	TX	1513	No change
27	Kirby Lin	PA	1504	No change
27	Victor Anthony Desoto	KY	1504+64	9 places up nationally since last month
29	Jessica T Lauser	MO	1500	1 place down nationally since last month
30	Alex Strobehn	MI	1497	1 place down nationally since last month
31	Chloe Melissandre Zamojski	CA	1464	2 places up nationally since last month
32	Christopher Thomas Luiz	RI	1448	2 places up nationally since last month
33	Joel Martin	NY	1445	2 places up nationally since last month
34	Bradley Charles	KY	1444-42	4 places down nationally since last month
35	John E Shaffer-Spencer	OR	1422	2 places up nationally since last month
35	Rodolfo Acosta	NM	1422	2 places up nationally since last month
37	Nick DiGiuseppe	PA	1413	2 places up nationally since last month
38	Jacob Marq Goldman	CA	1405	3 places up nationally since last month
39	Viraj Sharad Phadke	NC	1402-6	1 place up nationally since last month
40	Andrew Goldfarb	NJ	1377	2 places up nationally since last month
41	Alberto Pablo	IL	1368	2 places up nationally since last month
42	Theodore Williams	NC	1366	2 places up nationally since last month
43	James Ceballos	FL	1361	2 places up nationally since last month
44	Justin Stewart	WI	1338	2 places up nationally since last month
45	Vahe Gul	CA	1322+30	7 places up nationally since last month
46	Zachary Allen Kamehameha Kim	HI	1313-1	1 place up nationally since last month
47	Luke James Ducharme	WI	1307	1 place up nationally since last month
48	Roy Walter Harwell	NC	1304	1 place up nationally since last month
48	Harishan Karunenthiran	—	1304	1 place up nationally since last month
50	Samuel Herford	OR	1293-1	1 place up nationally since last month
51	Chalpati Rao Gundumalla	NC	1271+233	19 places up nationally since last month
52	Frank Lin	TX	1267	New
53	Gerelt OD Tumurkhuyag	IL	1239+17	1 place up nationally since last month
54	Matthew Lorenz Fales	WI	1237	1 place down nationally since last month
55	Marcus W Suzuki	CA	1228	New
56	Eric T Kasper	WI	1220+43	2 places up nationally since last month
57	Kent Alexander Ashby	MD	1219+50	2 places up nationally since last month
58	Leo Morales	CA	1193	3 places down nationally since last month
58	Sanjivani Pant	NC	1193	3 places down nationally since last month
60	Raymond Fernandez	WY	1185	3 places down nationally since last month
61	Peri Muthiah	TX	1158	1 place down nationally since last month
62	Kage Kowalski	IL	1157	1 place down nationally since last month
63	David Firlik	PA	1152	1 place down nationally since last month
64	Andrew Mcintyre	MN	1136-5	1 place down nationally since last month
65	Andrew Squitiro	LA	1121+15	1 place up nationally since last month
66	Reginald McLean	WI	1119	2 places down nationally since last month
67	Rodney Brown	NM	1116	2 places down nationally since last month
68	Miguel De La Garza	TX	1102	New
69	Daniel Wills	CA	1077	New
70	Zhipeng Li	CA	1062+67	4 places up nationally since last month
71	Michael Bernier	ME	1060	4 places down nationally since last month
72	Scott Gilbertson	MN	1045	4 places down nationally since last month
72	Sheldan Zachariah Kaplan	TX	1045	4 places down nationally since last month
74	Eric Montrose	TX	1034	3 places down nationally since last month
75	Aman Shaik	MD	1011	3 places down nationally since last month
76	Eric Arabian	MA	1006	3 places down nationally since last month
77	Carlos Zamudio	TX	970	2 places down nationally since last month
78	Anita Roach	VA	955+222	4 places up nationally since last month
79	Tyler Craig	MA	948	3 places down nationally since last month
80	Megan Givens	TX	945	3 places down nationally since last month
81	Nicholas Manley	MO	936	3 places down nationally since last month
82	Michael Todd Creel	VA	837	3 places down nationally since last month
83	Mathilde Emma Turpin	—	836	3 places down nationally since last month
84	Kevin Mathrani	GA	829	3 places down nationally since last month
85	Yana Villion	NY	706-27	3 places down nationally since last month
86	Dan El-Dweek	ND	644	2 places down nationally since last month
87	Matthew Jeremy Edler	DE	625	2 places down nationally since last month

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