Georgia Top Scholastic Players, September 2025

High School (9-12)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Ethan T Sheehan	2427	12
2	Andrew Jiang	2355	9
3	Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda	2230	12
4	Varun Gadi	2212	11
5	Damian Krotov	2174	12
6	Beiyang Ni	2138	11
7	Caden Qiao	2101	12
8	Grayson Cooke	2074	12
9	Vishruth Yelisetti	2010	9
10	Mathew Jiang	1964	12
11	Arjun Narayan Garg	1963	10
12	Archer Quinn Watson	1960	11
13	Evelyn Qiao	1958	10
14	Arush Dylan Balakumar	1949	9
15	Kartteekeya Punyamurthy	1943	11
16	Lakshmi M Morgan	1928	10
17	Sourish Uday Kavale	1927	11
18	Ryan Sceusi	1861	9
19	Aditya Bang	1853	9
20	Dylan Liu Pfeifer	1852	9

Middle School (6-8)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Saharsh Santosh	2214	8
2	Eric Wang	1993	8
3	Dhruva Ram Movva	1947	7
4	Anmay Kumar Chaudhury	1945	8
5	Jairaj Desai	1860	6
=	Kanishk Mahesh	1860	7
7	Aayush Shrivastava	1713	8
8	Rengenath Veera Sadayappan	1690	8
9	Nitya Reddy Daram	1685	8
10	Nirvan Sivakumar	1681	8
11	Anvika Mattam Kore	1635	8
12	Alexander Cao	1622 (20)	6
13	Andy Poon	1606	6
14	Sarath Chandra Chadalawada	1604	7
15	Alisa Antony Joseph	1584	6
16	Jashith Cha Dadibattina Jr.	1560	8
17	Siddharth Vinay	1559	8
18	Isabelle Chelladorai	1546	6
19	Krithik Kalaivannan	1534	7
20	Bhava Mithraa Chanakiyan	1512	7

Elementary (4-5)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Alexander Joseph	1998	4
2	Firat Sahiner	1843	5
3	Landon Meadors	1822	4
4	Joshua Chelladorai	1819	5
5	Lucas Yiwen Xi	1763	5
6	Raymond Chen	1708	5
7	Benjamin Xia	1674	5
8	Siddharth Sriram Basavaraju	1649	4
9	Grayson Sihan Xu	1554	5
10	Matthew Liu	1532	5
11	Brandon Moore	1454	5
12	Arun Karthik Kollipara	1384	5
13	Lily She	1246	4
14	Adhrit Bansal	1202	5
15	Rayansh Sharma	1150	5
16	Riansh Mattam Kore	1144	4
17	Daniel Shen	1141	4
18	Hannah Yu	1087	4
19	Nandhan Srinivasaperumal	1080	4
20	Rushank Dey	1076	5

Primary (K-3)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Ruben Yanmi Quintans	2014	2
2	Christian Meadors	1286	2
3	Khoa Tran	1227	3
4	Cooper Lin	1038	3
5	Daniel Gu	1019 (5)	2
6	Ayurda Uday Kavale	961	3
7	Purujith Koneni	953	3
8	Yuvin Charlakola	885	3
9	Alexander Meyer Palmillas	808 (12)	3
10	Nathan Zhongheng Jin	804	2
11	Raam Charan Thimiri	763	3
12	Abigail Han Gao	754	2
13	Dhruv Soma	746	3
14	Tanaay Gupta	733	3
15	Sachin Ravi	720	3
16	Sejal Sencha	717 (8)	2
17	Aadhya Dadibattina	700	2
18	Lev Kozyrev	692	3
19	Shaurya Sharma	665	2
20	Nolan Shen	630	3

Top GA Scholastic Girls (K-12)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Evelyn Qiao	1958	10
2	Lakshmi M Morgan	1928	10
3	Nitya Reddy Daram	1685	8
4	Anvika Mattam Kore	1635	8
5	Alisa Antony Joseph	1584	6
6	Isabelle Chelladorai	1546	6
7	Bhava Mithraa Chanakiyan	1512	7
8	Nicole Xu	1343	7
9	Caleigh Rose Thiessen	1329	11
10	Vijaya Vallabhajosyula	1301	9
11	Lily She	1246	4
12	Ashvika Ramakrishnan	1154	9
13	Hannah Yu	1087	4
=	Shrinityaa Vignesh	1087	7
15	Jessica Alfred	1057	8
16	Ally Yang	1017	6
17	Amanda Ileane Wood	1013	12
18	Aradhya Bhatia	1008	8
19	Lynda Richardson	971	6
20	Ayurda Uday Kavale	961	3

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.