Top blitz chess players in England

The highest-rated active players from England on FIDE's October 2026 blitz list.

#	Player	Rating	+/−	World	Born
1	GMMichael Adams ENG	2695	0	#26	1971
2	GMGawain C B Maroroa Jones ENG	2616	0	#74	1987
3	GMNikita Vitiugov ENG	2586	0	#118	1987
4	GMNigel D Short ENG	2516	0	#322	1965
5	GMJonathan F Parker ENG	2500	0	#373	1976
6	GMDaniel W Gormally ENG	2498	+14	#380	1976
7	GMAmeet K Ghasi ENG	2488	−2	#427	1987
8	GMShreyas Royal ENG	2453	−27	#625	2009
9	IMMarcus R Harvey ENG	2445	+1	#679	1996
10	IMYang-Fan Zhou ENG	2427	0	#819	1994
11	FMStanley Badacsonyi ENG	2422	−31	#846	2009
12	GMDaniel Howard Fernandez ENG	2416	0	#888	1995
13	IMThomas E Rendle ENG	2410	−13	#949	1986
14	IMLorin D`Costa ENG	2401	0	#1046	1984
15	GMJon S Speelman ENG	2397	−52	#1083	1956
16	IMCraig A Hanley ENG	2391	0	#1133	1984
17	IMJonah B Willow ENG	2391	+23	#1134	2002
18	GMSimon K Williams ENG	2389	0	#1149	1979
19	IMAaravamudhan Balaji ENG	2386	+46	#1179	2005
20	GMWilliam N Watson ENG	2384	−37	#1201	1962
21	GMH James Plaskett ENG	2375	−9	#1291	1960
22	FMSupratit Banerjee ENG	2375	+32	#1293	2014
23	IMAlex Golding ENG	2368	0	#1366	2003
24	GMPeter K Wells ENG	2359	0	#1459	1965
25	IMJack Rudd ENG	2351	0	#1541	1979
26	FMBodhana Sivanandan ENG	2344	+37	#1638	2015
27	GMGlenn C Flear ENG	2321	0	#1955	1959
28	IMSohum Lohia ENG	2321	0	#1960	2009
29	James R Poulton ENG	2314	0	#2042	1973
30	Livio Cancedda-Dupuis ENG	2314	−25	#2043	2010
31	IMGary Quillan ENG	2307	0	#2147	1970
32	IMPeter T Roberson ENG	2306	+37	#2158	1989
33	FMKai Hanache ENG	2305	+157	#2171	2012
34	FMDavid L Haydon ENG	2301	−16	#2237	1988
35	CMRock Yu ENG	2301	−29	#2238	2011
36	CMZack Norris ENG	2298	+40	#2306	2013
37	FMAnkush Khandelwal ENG	2275	0	#2710	1991
38	CMDildarav Lishoy Gengis Paratazham ENG	2270	+57	#2790	2014
39	FMKoby Kalavannan ENG	2260	0	#2980	2002
40	Adam Eckersley-Waites ENG	2259	0	#3007	1987
41	GMMatthew J Wadsworth ENG	2252	0	#3158	2000
42	CMBilly Fellowes ENG	2243	−15	#3349	2011
43	Shriaansh Ganti ENG	2243		#3367	2010
44	FMQixiang Han ENG	2239	+105	#3441	2013
45	FMJude Shearsby ENG	2231	+1	#3612	2010
46	IMAli Mortazavi ENG	2230	0	#3636	1971
47	FMIndy Southcott-Moyers ENG	2230	+32	#3637	2008
48	Finlay Bowcott-Terry ENG	2228	+9	#3683	2005
49	GMKeith C Arkell ENG	2223	0	#3800	1961
50	FMViktor Stoyanov ENG	2221	+3	#3852	2003
51	FMLaurence E Webb ENG	2219	+15	#3917	1970
52	IMHarriet V Hunt ENG	2216	0	#3999	1978
53	David Paul Mooney ENG	2206	0	#4261	1956
54	Thomas A Eggleston ENG	2206	0	#4262	1987
55	FMJames Moreby ENG	2206	0	#4263	2002
56	Jonathan M Fish ENG	2204	0	#4311	1986
57	IMJoseph McPhillips ENG	2202	0	#4362	1997
58	Alex Posazhennikov ENG	2202		#4372	1971
59	Donny Muter ENG	2196	0	#4516	1982
60	CMHarry Bryant ENG	2195	−72	#4544	2012
61	Adam A Taylor ENG	2190	−48	#4659	1997
62	IMEzra Kirk ENG	2189	−37	#4684	1996
63	FMJohn Merriman ENG	2187	0	#4726	1974
64	Krunal Kahar ENG	2184	0	#4787	1985
65	FMJonathan Pein ENG	2182	+1	#4821	1998
66	FMMichael Fernandez ENG	2173	+36	#4987	1999
67	Jacob Connor Boswell ENG	2171	−35	#5012	2001
68	FMTheo Khoury ENG	2170	0	#5028	2010
69	FMStephen Dishman ENG	2166	0	#5112	1970
70	FMMax N Turner ENG	2161	0	#5211	2003
71	FMJohn R Richardson ENG	2155	+28	#5330	1964
72	IMMalcolm Pein ENG	2151	0	#5405	1960
73	WGMElmira Mirzoeva ENG	2151	0	#5408	1981
74	FMFrankie Badacsonyi ENG	2144	0	#5534	2006
75	FMAdithya Vaidyanathan ENG	2134	+17	#5684	2012
76	John Boyd ENG	2124	0	#5854	1972
77	FMRhys Cumming ENG	2121	0	#5899	1994
78	CMSamar Dayal ENG	2111	−50	#6060	2014
79	FMKenneth Hobson ENG	2102	0	#6167	2009
80	CMThomas Villiers ENG	2101	0	#6181	1992
81	FMBen J Purton ENG	2096	0	#6246	1986
82	CMAvyukt Dasgupta ENG	2095	−115	#6257	2009
83	WFMElis Denele Dicen ENG	2091	0	#6300	2010
84	WFMKamila Hryshchenko ENG	2091	0	#6311	2002
85	WFMRuqayyah Rida ENG	2088	0	#6345	2012
86	FMChris R Duncan ENG	2078	0	#6438	1970
87	IMPeter G Large ENG	2074	0	#6496	1956
88	WFMEugenia Karas ENG	2074	0	#6497	2008
89	Owen Crawford ENG	2073	+21	#6519	2004
90	FMDaniel GH Gallagher ENG	2070	0	#6539	2000
91	FMJan Murawski ENG	2068	0	#6581	2011
92	WFMAudrey Kueh ENG	2061	0	#6645	1987
93	Aron Saunders ENG	2059	0	#6664	2005
94	CMPeter Finn ENG	2047		#6796	1998
95	CMAlex Leslie ENG	2033	+28	#6912	2005
96	CMJacob D Yoon ENG	2021	0	#7033	2006
97	Tara Tamilselvan ENG	2021		#7039	2016
98	CMJoshua Altman ENG	2015	+6	#7080	2004
99	Peter A Gemmell ENG	2003	−58	#7181
100	WFMShambavi Hariharan ENG	1996	−70	#7237	2011

Ratings from FIDE's official October 2026 list. The +/− column is the change from the previous month. Inactive players are not ranked.