Top blitz chess players in India

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

#	Player	Rating	+/−	World	Born
1	GMErigaisi Arjun IND	2766	0	#6	2003
2	GMNihal Sarin IND	2721	0	#15	2004
3	GMPraggnanandhaa R IND	2712	0	#19	2005
4	GMViswanathan Anand IND	2706	0	#23	1969
5	GMRaunak Sadhwani IND	2678	0	#32	2005
6	GMSantosh Gujrathi Vidit IND	2677	0	#33	1994
7	GMGukesh D IND	2659	0	#40	2006
8	GMNarayanan S L IND	2630	0	#59	1998
9	GMPentala Harikrishna IND	2620	0	#69	1986
10	GMAryan Chopra IND	2603	0	#94	2001
11	GMPranesh M IND	2589	0	#115	2006
12	GMV Pranav IND	2582	0	#127	2006
13	GMAbhimanyu Puranik IND	2566	0	#162	2000
14	GMChithambaram VR. Aravindh IND	2562	0	#168	1999
15	GMGuha Mitrabha IND	2558	0	#179	2001
16	GMBharath Subramaniyam H IND	2546	0	#215	2007
17	GMLalit Babu M R IND	2541	0	#228	1993
18	GMDiptayan Ghosh IND	2537	0	#241	1998
19	IMGoutham Krishna H IND	2533	+11	#263	2010
20	GMAbhijeet Gupta IND	2528	0	#276	1989
21	GMMurali Karthikeyan IND	2528	0	#277	1999
22	GMLeon Luke Mendonca IND	2520	0	#305	2006
23	GMB. Adhiban IND	2519	0	#308	1992
24	GMS.P. Sethuraman IND	2503	0	#363	1993
25	GMKrishnan Sasikiran IND	2501	0	#372	1981
26	GMHarsha Bharathakoti IND	2499	0	#378	2000
27	GMAronyak Ghosh IND	2497	0	#389	2003
28	GMSurya Shekhar Ganguly IND	2491	0	#410	1983
29	IMEthan Vaz IND	2484	0	#451	2011
30	GMPranav Anand IND	2481	0	#466	2006
31	GMSundar M. Shyam IND	2478	0	#481	1992
32	GMG.A. Stany IND	2473	0	#507	1993
33	GMRaja Harshit IND	2468	0	#536	2001
34	GMSankalp Gupta IND	2460	0	#576	2003
35	GMVisakh N R IND	2459	0	#588	1999
36	GMSuri Vaibhav IND	2458	0	#592	1997
37	GMArjun Kalyan IND	2455	0	#615	2002
38	GMVignesh N R IND	2453	0	#632	1998
39	GMJayaram Ashwin IND	2443	0	#697	1990
40	GMPa Iniyan IND	2440	0	#720	2002
41	IMSiva Mahadevan IND	2440	0	#721	2001
42	GMSrinath Narayanan IND	2437	0	#738	1994
43	GMKarthik Venkataraman IND	2436	0	#748	1999
44	IMMd Imran IND	2432	−9	#784	2009
45	GMKoustav Chatterjee IND	2431	0	#795	2003
46	IMSathvik Adiga IND	2429	0	#808	2011
47	GMHarikrishnan.A.Ra IND	2428	+24	#813	2001
48	IMV S Rathanvel IND	2426	0	#827	2001
49	GMMayank Chakraborty IND	2425	0	#831	2009
50	IMBanerjee Bitan IND	2421	0	#857	1993
51	GMIlamparthi A R IND	2418	0	#880	2009
52	IMHari Madhavan N B IND	2414	0	#913	2003
53	GMRaja Rithvik R IND	2414	0	#917	2004
54	IMDhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad IND	2408	0	#973	1996
55	GMSandipan Chanda IND	2403	0	#1026	1983
56	GMMhamal Anurag IND	2402	0	#1037	1995
57	GMM.R. Venkatesh IND	2398	0	#1077	1985
58	FMPanesar Vedant IND	2394	+23	#1111	2003
59	GMMagesh Chandran Panchanathan IND	2393	0	#1118	1983
60	IMKrishna C R G IND	2393	0	#1119	1991
61	GMAditya Mittal IND	2393	0	#1122	2006
62	IMS Aswath IND	2390	0	#1147	2008
63	GMSamant Aditya S IND	2388	0	#1171	2006
64	GMHumpy Koneru IND	2386	0	#1188	1987
65	GMRohith Krishna S IND	2386	0	#1192	2005
66	GMSrihari L R IND	2384	0	#1208	2005
67	GMHarshavardhan G B IND	2373	0	#1319	2003
68	IMNitish Belurkar IND	2372	0	#1327	2001
69	IMJake Shanty IND	2370	0	#1349	2011
70	IMMohammad Nubairshah Shaikh IND	2367	+7	#1384	1998
71	IMPrasanna Raghuram Rao IND	2365	0	#1407	1994
72	IMSiddharth Ravichandran IND	2362	0	#1439	1987
73	GMHarika Dronavalli IND	2355	0	#1505	1991
74	GMSayantan Das IND	2355	0	#1506	1997
75	IMAnuj Shrivatri IND	2354	0	#1516	2004
76	GMDeep Sengupta IND	2351	0	#1550	1988
77	GMAkash G IND	2346	0	#1618	1996
78	IMLad Mandar Pradip IND	2346	0	#1626	2006
79	GMPrraneeth Vuppala IND	2346	0	#1628	2007
80	GMRameshbabu Vaishali IND	2345	0	#1632	2001
81	GMDivya Deshmukh IND	2345	0	#1636	2005
82	IMGarg Aradhya IND	2342	−22	#1671	2000
83	IMSahib Singh IND	2340	+43	#1695	2008
84	IMKushagra Mohan IND	2335	0	#1768	2004
85	FMArnav Agrawal IND	2335	−3	#1772	2010
86	IMNeelash Saha IND	2334	0	#1775	2002
87	FMArpith S Bijoy IND	2332	0	#1811	2008
88	IMTeja S. Ravi IND	2331	0	#1822	1993
89	IMVantika Agrawal IND	2330	0	#1843	2002
90	GMShyaam Nikhil P IND	2328	0	#1859	1992
91	FMJa Gireman IND	2328	0	#1860	1997
92	IMViani Antonio Dcunha IND	2327	0	#1877	1995
93	GMAarav Dengla IND	2326	0	#1901	2009
94	IMSrihari L IND	2325	0	#1916	2004
95	IMP.D.S. Girinath IND	2323	0	#1937	1968
96	FMShaik Sumer Arsh IND	2319	0	#1987	2008
97	FMCharvi A IND	2315	0	#2041	2014
98	IMSubhayan Kundu IND	2312	0	#2071	2001
99	GMM. S. Thejkumar IND	2308	0	#2131	1981
100	IMS. Nitin IND	2307	0	#2153	1992

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