Top 18-year-old chess players

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

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Top 18-Year-Old Chess Players in the US (Sep 2026)
#PlayerStateRatingMove
1Liam Henry PutnamNY2,588
2Dimitar MardovIL2,564
3Evan ParkPA2,548
4Bach NgoFL2,483
4Ethan T SheehanGA2,483
6Eric Yuhan LiCA2,430
7Zoey TangOR2,419
8James ChirilovNC2,418
9Tejas RamaNJ2,382
10Kagan UzGA2,376
11Marvin GaoFL2,357
12Kent SlateVA2,344
13Haari MuthukumarNJ2,331
14Jayden H LeeAZ2,329
15Jacorey BynumFL2,323
16William SafranekNY2,320
17Vaseegaran NandhakumarTX2,308
18Jonathan ChenCA2,300
19Ronen WilsonVA2,296
20Sriram KrishnakumarCA2,283
21Evan YinAZ2,272
22Caleb Jude KlenoffNY2,252
23Tobias M RizzoNY2,244
24Roger ZhangNJ2,243
25Yu-Cheng LiangWA2,236
26Caden QiaoGA2,234
26Henry HeMA2,234
28Luke Sicong YeMO2,231
29James L NguyenTN2,230
30Ryan CheungNY2,229
30Amogh TripathiOH2,229
32Ellen Luojia WangNY2,228
33Jed SloanNY2,224
33Alec Daniel AimdilokwongIA2,224
35Yunze Owen JiMA2,223
36Vishnusankar JonnalagaddaGA2,220
36Aniket ShuklaFL2,220
38Shamith Shiva MurthyOH2,215
39Chase Josue BellamyNC2,211
40Aritro ChakravartyNY2,201
41Yuqi WangCA2,200
42Raymond S. XuMA2,196
43Javier SilvaCA2,194
44Aston RobertsNJ2,189
45Naveen BalakrishnanVA2,187
46Arsal GardeziTX2,186
47Jerry ChenMA2,185
48Luke Leon Robin AnatolTX2,184
49Timothy LimIN2,183
50Andy WangTX2,179
51Timothy F MccallVA2,173
52Eshan GuptaCA2,172
53Kevin LiPA2,163
54Alex NguyenCA2,160
55Max IngargiolaCT2,156
56Jack ZhouFL2,144
57Max HaoCA2,142
58Lang Leo XiongVA2,137
59Amudan MangudiAZ2,134
60Matthew JamesAZ2,124
61Kelsey LiuMA2,120
61Kylan Z HuangNJ2,120
63Jeremy RatnerNY2,116
64Charlie CreswellME2,114
65Vincent TangPA2,111
66Neil ChalisseryCA2,110
67Grayson CookeGA2,109
68Victor FengMA2,103
69Aditya RamkumarNC2,101
70Franklin Phillip LewisMA2,093
71Advay SingiTX2,085
71Dario PjevicIL2,085
73Brandon Joseph ChenMD2,081
73William NoblesOR2,081
75Ian BroihierOH2,078
76Hayk SardaryanCA2,076
77Matthew SimpsonIA2,068
78Kalman VanderhoekMI2,059
79Dhruvesh RavishankarTX2,057
80Ian NicholsonNY2,048
81Maxwell CampbellTN2,045
82Ryan R WangMI2,044
82Aayush ThakkarIL2,044
84Adam ElgatIL2,042
85Eliot S WuMD2,035
86Neel SahaiFL2,033
87Rishi MuraliIL2,029
88Easwar Gnana Hari SekarCA2,028
89Yajur J ChandarNV2,022
90Daniel IsmagilovCA2,020
91Esat Omer DemirelVA2,018
92Aradh KaurWI2,017
93Sanjay KumarGA2,014
94Kirby LinPA2,012
94Pranay PuppallaAZ2,012
96Vanessa G ZhouCA2,006
97Ujwal GarineWA2,005
98Ethan Yizhe WangTX2,001
99David Baokang ChenIL1,999
100William K HardisonFL1,998
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