Top 12-year-old chess players

Official US Chess rankings for September 2026. 100 players are ranked on this list.

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Top 12-Year-Old Chess Players in the US (Sep 2026)
#PlayerStateRatingMove
1Linxi ZhuNY2,393
2Ted WangWA2,372
3Kannan VaidyanathanNY2,340
4Shawn XuMA2,300
5Lev ShanginNY2,294
6Tariq YuePA2,276
7Zachary PanMA2,259
8Santhosh AyyappanTX2,252
9Alexander JasinskiFL2,247
10Steven LiuMD2,232
11Winsley WuNY2,224
12Rishith BhoopathiNJ2,218
12Ashwin Iranian Prabhu KumarOH2,218
14Liam LiuCA2,210
15Aimee YangPA2,203
16Lacey WangCT2,186
17Arthur ZhouMA2,180
18Ariv DebmisraPA2,178
18Rafael PalathingalWA2,178
20Rishi KolliTX2,162
21Oscar Yihang ZhangTX2,140
22Theodore ShinNY2,138
23Sophie LiFL2,136
24Yegna Sairam JandhyalaNJ2,131
25Young CuiCA2,124
26Francis Gio Bigol OrdanzaCA2,112
27Tanqi LiIN2,108
28Artin AtoufiAZ2,106
29Neevan Reddy SaddiWA2,087
30Siddharth BhaskaranTX2,084
31Charles HuangMA2,067
32Julian MaNJ2,056
33Owen XuWA2,049
34Leo PaasNY2,048
35Jacob S WangCA2,047
36Gallagher KelschWV2,045
37Maxwell ChungOH2,044
38Veronique JosephWA2,040
39Lucas YangNY2,039
40Laura ZhangNC2,030
41Premsai NallapareddygariNJ2,020
42Lerui ZhengMI2,017
43Jeffrey WeiWA2,015
44Leonel BeeTX2,014
45Hudson WongNY2,010
46Alexander Xu LiMA2,009
47Andy ZhongCA2,006
48Lucas SilvestreIL2,001
49David Johnathan CarrNY1,995
50Rayansh MaheshwariCA1,993
51Celine AtassiNC1,984
52Kawin Sayi SureshTX1,977
52Manish B KashyapNJ1,977
52Tamaghna RoySC1,977
55Alexander Zheng ZhouVA1,975
56Kavin AravindAZ1,971
56Lucas MaokhampioOR1,971
58Leo NiCA1,966
59Mikhail GrigorevCA1,958
60Navyan Reddy BandatmakuruAZ1,956
61Takki TanakaNY1,951
62Matthew Mingming LiuMN1,946
63Frank Zhongtian CaoMA1,945
64Saeed HojaTN1,942
65Pranav kandiTX1,940
66Reyansh RaoAZ1,935
67Aariv AgrawalNM1,930
68Sujia DiaoNJ1,927
68Suhas Varma IndukuriCA1,927
70yuchen zhouWA1,926
71Leo Daniel Olivera JacksonTX1,925
72Rishin JehinAZ1,922
72Caleb BeharrellCA1,922
74Vivaan LodhaTN1,921
75Ayden SpellmanNY1,920
76Joseph TothFL1,919
77Ryan GargPA1,917
78Eugene WongNY1,915
79Michael LinWA1,912
80Haoran YangAZ1,908
81Stanley RenMI1,907
81Nischay Shyam PeelaNC1,907
83Damian AlexanderFL1,906
84Logan FreimanNY1,904
85Philip T ZhengTX1,898
86Isaac LienCA1,896
87Aarav GhoshTN1,889
88Mark GaoFL1,888
88Blake ZhangCA1,888
90Jaden Bao ChenCA1,887
91Jairaj DesaiGA1,886
92Krish MahajanMN1,884
93Aryan VuyyuruTX1,881
94Dhruv ThokurNC1,879
95Ojas TendulkarTX1,877
96Raza Mikal PatelNY1,874
96Ziqian GaoWA1,874
98Krivi R MadireddyCA1,871
99Preash Mayank VadherTX1,869
100Samuel LePA1,868
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