Georgia Top Scholastic Players, May 2026

High School (9-12)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Ethan T Sheehan	2441	12
2	Andrew Jiang	2380	9
3	Varun Gadi	2232	11
4	Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda	2219	12
5	Beiyang Ni	2160	11
6	Damian Krotov	2151	12
7	Caden Qiao	2106	12
8	Devarsh Kinra	2103	10
9	Vishruth Yelisetti	2075	9
10	Arush Dylan Balakumar	2050	9
11	Mathew Jiang	1967	12
12	Arjun Narayan Garg	1963	10
13	Ryan Sceusi	1962	9
=	Sourish Uday Kavale	1962	11
15	Kartteekeya Punyamurthy	1955	11
16	Evelyn Qiao	1953	10
17	Aditya Bang	1942	9
18	Archer Quinn Watson	1934	11
19	Dylan Liu Pfeifer	1930	9
20	David A Katz	1918	10

Middle School (6-8)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Saharsh Santosh	2265	8
2	Anmay Kumar Chaudhury	2050	8
3	Dhruva Ram Movva	2036	7
4	Eric Wang	2022	8
5	Kanishk Mahesh	1951	7
6	Rengenath Veera Sadayappan	1890	8
7	Jairaj Desai	1859	6
8	Anvika Mattam Kore	1832	8
9	Alisa Antony Joseph	1764	6
10	Aayush Shrivastava	1758	8
11	Isabelle Chelladorai	1750	6
12	Siddharth Wairagade	1710	7
13	Alexander Cao	1706	6
14	Lalith Chetan Polavarapu	1682	8
15	Bhava Mithraa Chanakiyan	1655	7
16	Nicole Xu	1652	7
17	Brian Chen	1649	7
18	Nitya Reddy Daram	1642	8
19	Nirvan Sivakumar	1635	8
20	Bhaavik Das	1589	8

Elementary (4-5)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Landon Meadors	2113	4
2	Alexander Joseph	2077	4
3	Siddharth Sriram Basavaraju	1957	4
4	Joshua Chelladorai	1851	5
5	Lucas Yiwen Xi	1801	5
6	Raymond Chen	1798	5
7	F-¦rat Sahiner	1793	5
=	Benjamin Xia	1793	5
9	Arun Karthik Kollipara	1605	5
10	Grayson Sihan Xu	1537	5
11	Daniel Shen	1386	4
12	Adhrit Bansal	1301	5
13	Brandon Moore	1300	5
14	Nolan Ciak	1286	5
15	Hannah Yu	1226	4
16	Lily She	1225	4
17	Gowtham Choudhary Bodapati	1201	5
18	Rayansh Sharma	1137	5
19	Nandhan Srinivasaperumal	1067	4
=	Riansh Mattam Kore	1067	4

Primary (K-3)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Ruben Yanmi Quintans	2096	2
2	Khoa Tran	1328	3
3	Ayurda Uday Kavale	1281	3
4	Cooper Lin	1273	3
5	Christian Meadors	1247	2
6	Yuvin Charlakola	1112	3
7	Vidhaath Sasisekar	1110	2
8	Daniel Gu	1072 (20)	2
9	Sachin Ravi	922	3
10	Raam Charan Thimiri	893	3
11	Nolan Shen	889	3
12	Jonathan Qian	846	1
13	Tanaay Gupta	787	3
14	Vishnu Virat Raghuvaran	768 (10)	3
15	Vedik Ramkumar	761	3
16	Dhruv Soma	735	3
17	Max Ray Miller	718 (16)	1
18	Abigail Han Gao	717	2
19	London Michael Gilford	698 (17)	3
20	Austin Guo	696	K

Top GA Scholastic Girls (K-12)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Evelyn Qiao	1953	10
2	Lakshmi M Morgan	1886	10
3	Anvika Mattam Kore	1832	8
4	Alisa Antony Joseph	1764	6
5	Isabelle Chelladorai	1750	6
6	Bhava Mithraa Chanakiyan	1655	7
7	Nicole Xu	1652	7
8	Nitya Reddy Daram	1642	8
9	Shrinityaa Vignesh	1287	7
10	Ayurda Uday Kavale	1281	3
11	Vijaya Vallabhajosyula	1279	9
12	Hannah Yu	1226	4
13	Lily She	1225	4
14	Keerthi Bhogapathi	1222	12
15	Ally Yang	1202	6
16	Ashvika Ramakrishnan	1201	9
17	Aradhya Bhatia	1148	8
18	Lynda Richardson	1118	6
19	Vasilisa Kozyreva	1077	9
20	Jessica Alfred	962	8

List compiled by Keith B. Sewell

Criteria: K-12 Georgia residents with an established or provisional published rating who have played at least one G/25 or slower Over the Board (OTB) rated event in Georgia within the last 12 months. All ratings are “Current Published Rating (Supplement)” as of the first of the month. Questions or comments, e-mail - keith@georgiachess.org.