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USA · 22 yrs · K=20 · Peak 2317 (Sep 2025)

Best performance: 2410 at 31st AbuDhabi International Chess Festival-Blitz - Open(Best of 2025)

World #=3732United States #=174among all players, November list

Blitz rating

2317

FIDE’s November 2026 list. No rated games since, so the live rating is the same.

On FIDE’s list since Aug 2023 · Inactive on FIDE’s list

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Blitz

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Blitz rating unchanged at 2317 over the last 12 months; peak 2317 in September 2025.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalBlitz
Nov 20262449, 0, 0 games2317, 0, 0 games
Oct 20262449, 0, 0 games2317, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262449, +10, 9 games2317, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262439, +3, 27 games2317, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262436, +3, 9 games2317, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262433, 0, 0 games2317, 0, 0 games
May 20262433, 0, 0 games2317, 0, 0 games
Apr 20262433, -5, 18 games2317, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262438, 0, 0 games2317, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262438, +10, 14 games2317, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262428, -12, 9 games2317, 0, 0 games
Dec 20252440, 0, 0 games2317, 0, 0 games
Working toward the Grandmaster title1 tracked norm · 9/27 gamesrating 2453 of 2500, live 2449composition opendetails ↓

Form · Blitz

oldest → latest

Unbeaten in the last 8 games (4 wins, 4 draws), since Aug 22, 2025.

From 51 blitz games on record, the latest on Aug 22, 2025.

Blitz games since the November list

No rated blitz games this rating periodsince the NOV26 list (Nov 1, 2026)

Show gamesLast playedScore
31st AbuDhabi International Chess Festival-Blitz - OpenAug 22, 2025TPR 24108/11

The live rating moves only when new rated games are played. Until then it matches the published rating.

Title Progress

GM title progress

Working toward the Grandmaster title

Tracked norms: 1 · 9 of 27 games credit

Rating: peak 2453, needs 2500

Composition: next norm must come from a qualifying open (Swiss with 40+ players, national championship final, or similar)

Composition: next norm must come from an event played at one round a day for at least 3 days

2025 NY Marshall Summer Six Day - GM AJul 20256½/9Rp 2607

Based on events we cover plus the FIDE norm registers of all federations. Norms filed elsewhere may not show up here yet.

Best wins · Blitz

From 49 rated blitz games against rated opponents, 2023–2025

#OpponentRating
1, GM David Gavrilescu, Aug 2023 · Arad Open 2023 - blitz, 2511
2, GM Haowen Xue, Aug 2025 · 31st AbuDhabi International Chess Festival-Blitz - Open, 2416
3, GM Alexander Fishbein, 2 wins, Jun 2024 · 2024 Walter Browne Memorial National Open Blitz Championship, 2413

Openings · Blitz

From the moves of 11 of 51 blitz games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.e4 in 6 of 6 games.

All openings (1 as White)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Sicilian Defense350%

3 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Blitz

6 events

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by year

YearGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
202511822352410
20242317½19932195
2023159½20772172

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Rated near Samrug Narayanan · Blitz · November list, all players

World

  1. #=3732FM Roger Labruyere2317
  2. #=3732FM Sarbartho Mani2317
  3. #=3732IM Samrug Narayanan2317
  4. #=3732Shelev Oberoi2317
  5. #=3732IM Dr. Peter Ostermeyer2317

United States

  1. #173IM Joshua Posthuma2318
  2. #=174Shelev Oberoi2317
  3. #=174IM Samrug Narayanan2317
  4. #=176IM Joseph Zeltsan2316
  5. #=176FM James A Chirilov2316

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.