Georgia Top Scholastic Players, June 2026

High School (9-12)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Ethan T Sheehan	2441	12
2	Andrew Jiang	2371	9
3	Varun Gadi	2232	11
4	Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda	2219	12
5	Beiyang Ni	2160	11
6	Damian Krotov	2151	12
7	Caden Qiao	2104	12
8	Devarsh Kinra	2103	10
9	Vishruth Yelisetti	2054	9
10	Arush Dylan Balakumar	2050	9
11	Mathew Jiang	1967	12
12	Arjun Narayan Garg	1963	10
13	Sourish Uday Kavale	1962	11
14	Ryan Sceusi	1955	9
=	Kartteekeya Punyamurthy	1955	11
16	David A Katz	1948	10
17	Evelyn Qiao	1944	10
18	Aditya Bang	1942	9
19	Archer Quinn Watson	1934	11
20	Dylan Liu Pfeifer	1930	9

Middle School (6-8)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Saharsh Santosh	2285	8
2	Dhruva Ram Movva	2074	7
3	Anmay Kumar Chaudhury	2050	8
4	Eric Wang	2033	8
5	Kanishk Mahesh	1951	7
6	Rengenath Veera Sadayappan	1867	8
7	Anvika Mattam Kore	1832	8
8	Jairaj Desai	1830	6
9	Isabelle Chelladorai	1803	6
10	Aayush Shrivastava	1772	8
11	Alisa Antony Joseph	1761	6
12	Nirvan Sivakumar	1712	8
13	Bhava Mithraa Chanakiyan	1685	7
14	Lalith Chetan Polavarapu	1682	8
15	Alexander Cao	1677	6
=	Siddharth Wairagade	1677	7
17	Nitya Reddy Daram	1642	8
18	Brian Chen	1638	7
19	Nicole Xu	1628	7
20	Sarath Chandra Chadalawada	1617	7

Elementary (4-5)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Landon Meadors	2164	4
2	Alexander Joseph	2105	4
3	Siddharth Sriram Basavaraju	1914	4
4	Joshua Chelladorai	1903	5
5	Benjamin Xia	1801	5
=	Lucas Yiwen Xi	1801	5
7	Raymond Chen	1798	5
8	F-¦rat Sahiner	1737	5
9	Arun Karthik Kollipara	1618	5
10	Grayson Sihan Xu	1478	5
11	Daniel Shen	1386	4
12	Gowtham Choudhary Bodapati	1356	5
13	Adhrit Bansal	1323	5
14	Brandon Moore	1302	5
15	Nolan Ciak	1291	5
16	Lily She	1226	4
17	Hannah Yu	1179	4
18	Rayansh Sharma	1137	5
19	Rushank Dey	1119	5
20	Aiden Geist	1069	4

Primary (K-3)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Ruben Yanmi Quintans	2074	2
2	Cooper Lin	1401	3
3	Christian Meadors	1374	2
4	Khoa Tran	1243	3
5	Ayurda Uday Kavale	1208	3
6	Vidhaath Sasisekar	1202	2
7	Yuvin Charlakola	1112	3
8	Rowan Reese	1032	3
9	Daniel Gu	1018	2
10	Tanaay Gupta	985	3
11	Jonathan Qian	958	1
12	Raam Charan Thimiri	925	3
13	Sachin Ravi	923	3
14	Nolan Shen	885	3
15	Hedya Kancherla	845	2
16	Arlo Valentine	832	2
17	Vishnu Virat Raghuvaran	768 (10)	3
18	Navtej Farmaha	763	3
19	Vedik Ramkumar	761	3
20	Maxwell Xu	753	3

Top GA Scholastic Girls (K-12)

Place	Player Name	Rate	Grade
1	Evelyn Qiao	1944	10
2	Lakshmi M Morgan	1900	10
3	Anvika Mattam Kore	1832	8
4	Isabelle Chelladorai	1803	6
5	Alisa Antony Joseph	1761	6
6	Bhava Mithraa Chanakiyan	1685	7
7	Nitya Reddy Daram	1642	8
8	Nicole Xu	1628	7
9	Vijaya Vallabhajosyula	1279	9
10	Shrinityaa Vignesh	1246	7
11	Ally Yang	1242	6
12	Lily She	1226	4
13	Keerthi Bhogapathi	1222	12
14	Ayurda Uday Kavale	1208	3
15	Ashvika Ramakrishnan	1199	9
16	Hannah Yu	1179	4
17	Aradhya Bhatia	1163	8
18	Lynda Richardson	1092	6
19	Vasilisa Kozyreva	1077	9
20	Jessica Alfred	1024	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.