Top chess players in Australia

Live FIDE ratings, updated as games are played · October 2026

Australia has 1,973 rated players. The highest rated is GM Bobby Cheng at 2573.

Country ranking

#46 of 184

top 10 average 2458.0

Grandmasters

Moved since the October list

OCT26·1,973 players·Updated 08:55 UTC

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1#=215		GMBobby Cheng AUS · 29	2573	25732573.0	–	-23
2#=404		GMTemur Kuybokarov AUS · 26	2529	25292529.0	–	-6
3#=5042	2	GMJustin Tan AUS · 29	2510	25102510.0	–	-2
4#=609		IMRishi Sardana AUS · 29	2495	24952495.0	–	+34
5#=10537	7	IMJames Morris AUS · 32	2447	24472447.0	–	+31
6#=1122		GMDavid C Smerdon AUS · 42	2440	24402440.0	–	-28
7#=14451	1	GMZong-Yuan Zhao AUS · 40	2415	24152415.0	–	-39
8#=15597	7	IMAlbert Winkelman AUS · 23	2407	24072407.0	–	+61
9#=189310	10	IMBrodie McClymont AUS · 34	2389	23892389.0	–	+3
10#=21572	2	IMJunta Ikeda AUS · 35	2375	23752375.0	–	+19
11#=2327319	319	IMIgor Bjelobrk AUS · 44FIDE 2383	2383	23672367.4	−15.6	-14
12#=23292	2	FMSamuel Chow AUS · 39	2367	23672367.0	–	-3
13#2388438	438	IMYi Liu AUS · 29FIDE 2386	2386	23642364.5	−21.5	+89
=14#=292612	12	IMIgor Goldenberg AUS · 57	2341	23412341.0	–	+7
=14#=29264147	4147	FMYifei Hu AUS · 14FIDE 2223	2223	23412341.0	+118.0	-17
16#=312315	15	IMAleksandar H Wohl AUS · 63	2334	23342334.0	–	+4
17#3168116	116	IMTedric Li AUS · 16FIDE 2327	2327	23322332.4	+5.4	+129
18#=359312	12	IMGeorge Wendi Xie AUS · 41	2316	23162316.0	–	-17
19#3859432	432	IMTrevor Tao AUS · 49FIDE 2322	2322	23082307.8	−14.2	-21
20#=39627	7	IMPatrick Gong AUS · 27	2304	23042304.0	–	-7
21#=4035632	632	IMDavid Cannon AUS · 25FIDE 2323	2323	23032302.6	−20.4	+43
22#=4496548	548	FMKai Jie Soo AUS · 28FIDE 2272	2272	22882288.4	+16.4	+3
23#=4562453	453	FMRheyansh Reddy Annapureddy AUS · 12FIDE 2273	2273	22862286.2	+13.2	+121
24#=47668	8	IMAlexej Khamatgaleev AUS · 59	2280	22802280.0	–	-21
25#=52559	9	IMGuy West AUS · 68	2267	22672267.0	–	-11

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