Gainesville's Best Scholastic Chess Players

These lists include ALL scholastic players in Gainesville

Top 10 Current

-As of May 2023 rating supplement
-Must have one rated tournament with last year

Name	Rating	School	Grade
1. Bach Ngo	2402	Buchholz High	9th
2. Abhiram Pothuri*	2103	Lincoln Middle	8th
3. Jason Shen	2079	Buchholz High	10th
4. Nate Ziegler*	1965	​Lincoln Middle	7th
5. Jerry  Yao*	​1900	​Lincoln Middle	8th
6. Sophie Li*	1818	Oak Hall	3rd
7. Ahan Mishra*	1809	Buchholz	12th
8. Jolie Huang*	1801	​Lincoln Middle	8th
9. Andrew Xing*	1656	​Buchholz High	10th
10. Aakash Jani*	1650	​Oak Hall	2nd

Best 25 Ever

-Peak rating while living in Gainesville and enrolled in K-12
-​Since at least 1996

Name	Peak rating	Elem. school	HS grad.
1. ​Bach Ngo	​2415	Williams	2026
2. ​Erick Zhao*	2271	​Williams	2027
3. ​​Abhimanyu Banerjee*	2223	​Williams	2019
4. ​​Cindy Tsai	2190	Hidden Oak	2003
5. ​​​Britt Ryerson	2146	Terwilliger	2000
6. ​​Jason Shen	2118	N.A.**	2025
7. ​​Jackie Liu	2115	​Williams	2019
8. ​​Abhiram Pothuri*	2103	​Williams	2027
9. ​​Cindy Jie*	2084	​Williams	2019
10. ​Samvel Antonyan​	2020	N.A.***	2021
​11. ​Alan Wang*	2003	​Williams	​2021
12. Nate Ziegler*	1997	Oak Hall &​Williams	2028
13. ​Andy Wu*	1977	​Williams	2019
14. Alex Sinnott	1938	​Williams	2014
15. ​Jerry Yao*	1931	​Williams	2027
16. ​James Wnek	1902	Homeschool	2018
17. ​​Harish Vemuri*	1863	​Stephen Foster	2017
18. ​​Ahan Mishra*	1863	​Williams	​2023
19. Jeffrey Lu*	1844	Williams	2020
20. ​​Sophie Li*	1842	​Oak Hall	2032
21. ​​Grayson Cooke*	1832	​Oak Hall	2026
22. ​​Dylan Yu*	1812	​Williams	2027
23. ​​Jolie Huang*	1812	Williams	2027
24. ​​Kjell Ryerson	1806	Terwilliger	2002
25. David Liu	1782	Williams	2021

*studied/studies with Coach Britt at Logic Lab
**Jason moved to Gainesville at the beginning of 6th grade
***Samvel moved to Gainesville at the beginning of 10th grade

#2 Best Ever Erick Zhao

Jerry Yao (L) and Abhiram Pothuri

After the simul against Victor from Chess-Steps

Erick

This happy group won prizes at the Amateur Team South

Andrew

The team in action at the Amateur Team South

Jerry