Top rapid chess players in England

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

#	Player	Rating	+/−	World	Born
1	GMLuke J McShane ENG	2647	0	#38	1984
2	GMNikita Vitiugov ENG	2616	0	#79	1987
3	GMMichael Adams ENG	2614	0	#84	1971
4	GMGawain C B Maroroa Jones ENG	2609	0	#96	1987
5	GMNigel D Short ENG	2551	0	#217	1965
6	GMAmeet K Ghasi ENG	2505	0	#377	1987
7	GMDharshan Kumaran ENG	2483	0	#458	1975
8	GMDaniel W Gormally ENG	2454	0	#613	1976
9	GMStephen J Gordon ENG	2452	0	#629	1986
10	IMMarcus R Harvey ENG	2443	0	#695	1996
11	IMYang-Fan Zhou ENG	2430	0	#784	1994
12	GMAnthony C. Kosten ENG	2402	0	#1083	1958
13	GMShreyas Royal ENG	2400	0	#1104	2009
14	GMPeter K Wells ENG	2398	0	#1128	1965
15	IMCraig A Hanley ENG	2398	0	#1129	1984
16	GMStuart C Conquest ENG	2394	0	#1160	1967
17	GMNigel R Davies ENG	2390	0	#1207	1960
18	IMThomas E Rendle ENG	2390	0	#1208	1986
19	GMH James Plaskett ENG	2388	+6	#1230	1960
20	IMRichard A Bates ENG	2374	0	#1370	1979
21	GMDaniel Howard Fernandez ENG	2374	0	#1375	1995
22	IMLorin D`Costa ENG	2372	0	#1389	1984
23	IMEzra Kirk ENG	2372	0	#1390	1996
24	GMJohn M Emms ENG	2371	0	#1396	1967
25	GMMatthew J Wadsworth ENG	2369	0	#1417	2000
26	Livio Cancedda-Dupuis ENG	2368	0	#1427	2010
27	GMMark L Hebden ENG	2358	0	#1549	1958
28	GMGlenn C Flear ENG	2345	0	#1702	1959
29	IMPeter T Roberson ENG	2345	0	#1703	1989
30	FMDavid L Haydon ENG	2342	0	#1753	1988
31	FMSupratit Banerjee ENG	2333	0	#1894	2014
32	IMAaravamudhan Balaji ENG	2326	0	#1992	2005
33	GMHarry Grieve ENG	2316	0	#2146	2001
34	GMKeith C Arkell ENG	2306	0	#2299	1961
35	IMJames P Jackson ENG	2301	0	#2386	1991
36	GMAlexander Cherniaev ENG	2301	0	#2392	1969
37	FMStanley Badacsonyi ENG	2300	−18	#2403	2009
38	Finlay Bowcott-Terry ENG	2289	+8	#2583	2005
39	IMSohum Lohia ENG	2274	0	#2893	2009
40	IMJovanka Houska ENG	2273	0	#2904	1980
41	FMKoby Kalavannan ENG	2272	0	#2928	2002
42	IMJonah B Willow ENG	2271	0	#2947	2002
43	IMHarriet V Hunt ENG	2266	0	#3043	1978
44	FMJonathan J. Ady ENG	2266	0	#3055	1959
45	FMDavid M Moskovic ENG	2260	0	#3188	1979
46	Kemal J Ozeren ENG	2260	0	#3189	1981
47	FMBodhana Sivanandan ENG	2259	0	#3219	2015
48	FMPaul Macklin ENG	2255	0	#3309	1967
49	IMJack Rudd ENG	2252	0	#3389	1979
50	IMJoseph McPhillips ENG	2252	0	#3390	1997
51	Alex Posazhennikov ENG	2252	0	#3404	1971
52	IMAlan B Merry ENG	2249	0	#3460	1996
53	Kajus Mikalajunas ENG	2249		#3461	2010
54	FMAlexey Radchenko ENG	2236	0	#3791	1987
55	FMWilliam Claridge-Hansen ENG	2235	0	#3807	1999
56	FMTheo Khoury ENG	2232	0	#3895	2010
57	CMLion Lebedev ENG	2231	0	#3948	2012
58	IMChris R Beaumont ENG	2227	0	#4008	1952
59	FMErik Teichmann ENG	2224	0	#4085	1961
60	CMBilly Fellowes ENG	2223	0	#4117	2011
61	FMRhys Cumming ENG	2220	0	#4209	1994
62	David Paul Mooney ENG	2219	0	#4235	1956
63	FMTom Eckersley-Waites ENG	2217	0	#4304	1987
64	FMIndy Southcott-Moyers ENG	2214	0	#4390	2008
65	IMPeter G Large ENG	2213	+2	#4416	1956
66	CMDildarav Lishoy Gengis Paratazham ENG	2213	0	#4417	2014
67	IMAlex Golding ENG	2208	0	#4581	2003
68	CMZack Norris ENG	2199	0	#4905	2013
69	FMAdithya Vaidyanathan ENG	2194	0	#5001	2012
70	IMGraeme N Buckley ENG	2191	0	#5078	1971
71	FMJan Murawski ENG	2184	0	#5234	2011
72	FMViktor Stoyanov ENG	2181	0	#5282	2003
73	WGMElmira Mirzoeva ENG	2181	0	#5290	1981
74	IMGeoff W Lawton ENG	2175	0	#5412	1960
75	CMDemis Hassabis ENG	2173	0	#5456	1976
76	CMAvyukt Dasgupta ENG	2172		#5473	2009
77	FMKai Hanache ENG	2172	0	#5474	2012
78	FMMax N Turner ENG	2169	0	#5538	2003
79	CMFeliks J Kwiatkowski ENG	2161	−41	#5701	1955
80	FMJohn Merriman ENG	2157	0	#5772	1974
81	FMLaurence E Webb ENG	2154	0	#5823	1970
82	FMJude Shearsby ENG	2146	0	#5951	2010
83	Aron J Cohen ENG	2144	0	#5978	1976
84	FMJohn R Richardson ENG	2140	−20	#6048	1964
85	Rajko Vujatovic ENG	2131	0	#6190	1970
86	FMStephen Dishman ENG	2129	0	#6225	1970
87	IMJames T Sherwin ENG	2129	0	#6227	1933
88	FMMichael Fernandez ENG	2125	0	#6288	1999
89	WFMKamila Hryshchenko ENG	2116	0	#6443	2002
90	FMJonathan Pein ENG	2109	0	#6515	1998
91	FMKenneth Hobson ENG	2106	+36	#6556	2009
92	CMJacob D Yoon ENG	2099	0	#6644	2006
93	CMSamar Dayal ENG	2099	−2	#6652	2014
94	FMDaniel GH Gallagher ENG	2087	0	#6782	2000
95	CMHarry Bryant ENG	2083		#6815	2012
96	FMTom Junde He ENG	2073	0	#6920	2011
97	CMPeter Finn ENG	2069		#6958	1998
98	CMRock Yu ENG	2062		#7022	2011
99	Aron Saunders ENG	2057	0	#7070	2005
100	WFMAudrey Kueh ENG	2042	0	#7205	1987

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