Top chess players in Japan

The 100 highest-rated active players registered with the Japan chess federation (JPN), ranked by FIDE standard rating out of 190 rated players. Open a profile to see the player's ratings, opening repertoire and available games, or to prepare for a game against them.

Rank	Player	Federation	Standard	Rapid	Blitz	Platform
#01	Thanh Tu Tran IM	JPN	2,393	2,364	2,407	Chess.com
#02	Ryosuke Nanjo IM	JPN	2,293	2,344	2,255	Chess.com
#03	Shou Otsuka FM	JPN	2,289	2,106	-	Chess.com
#04	Shinya Kojima IM	JPN	2,278	2,268	2,269	Chess.com
#05	Kan Nakahara CM	JPN	2,276	2,033	2,048	Chess.com
#06	Simon Schweizer	JPN	2,215	2,174	2,153
#07	Kohei Yamada FM	JPN	2,208	2,193	2,001	Chess.com
#08	Akira Watanabe FM	JPN	2,206	2,167	-	Chess.com
#09	Masahiro Baba FM	JPN	2,175	2,109	2,223	Chess.com
#10	Atsuhiko Kobayashi CM	JPN	2,151	2,093	-	Chess.com
#11	Alex Averbukh CM	JPN	2,117	2,113	-
#12	Akio Hayakawa	JPN	2,104	2,005	-
#13	Cocoro Matsumura CM	JPN	2,101	2,134	2,111
#14	Tetsuo Higashino	JPN	2,099	2,067	-
#15	Maciej Dryglas	JPN	2,076	1,992	2,010
#16	Tetsuaki Sanada	JPN	2,062	1,949	1,880
#17	Kohei Yonemitsu	JPN	2,058	2,024	1,972
#18	Samuel Schweizer	JPN	2,045	2,033	2,052
#19	Sho Moritani	JPN	2,043	1,942	1,955
#20	Tatsuya Shioguchi	JPN	2,041	1,931	-
#21	Kota Nagataki	JPN	2,036	2,059	1,901
#22	Tomohiko Matsuo CM	JPN	2,034	-	-
#23	Chiaki Fujii	JPN	2,013	-	-
#24	Koji Noguchi	JPN	2,003	1,988	2,068
#25	Masashi Aso	JPN	1,995	1,731	-
#26	Stephen Jones FM	JPN	1,992	2,163	-
#27	Masahiro Furuya	JPN	1,988	2,028	-
#28	Tyler Scott	JPN	1,977	1,978	-
#29	Kyotaro Mizohata	JPN	1,977	-	-
#30	Toma Matsunaga	JPN	1,972	1,839	1,952
#31	Hiroto Taga	JPN	1,965	1,925	-
#32	Sota Matsuda	JPN	1,960	1,881	-
#33	Sameer Sharma	JPN	1,959	1,883	-
#34	Shunji Hashimoto	JPN	1,959	1,822	-
#35	Yoshitaro Matsumoto	JPN	1,950	-	-
#36	Teruomi Higashishiba	JPN	1,936	1,909	-
#37	Yuma Okabe	JPN	1,933	1,922	1,730
#38	Hiroaki Maeshima	JPN	1,932	-	-
#39	Alexander PN Ng	JPN	1,929	-	-
#40	Tosei Yamaguchi	JPN	1,920	1,960	-
#41	Enju Sakai	JPN	1,920	-	-
#42	Satoshi Tanaka	JPN	1,919	2,052	-
#43	Takeshi Gishi	JPN	1,914	-	-
#44	Hiroshi Manabe	JPN	1,907	1,885	1,913
#45	Taira Kihara	JPN	1,901	1,779	-
#46	Eito Nishida	JPN	1,897	1,772	1,900
#47	Kentaro Togawa	JPN	1,891	-	-
#48	Akira Kinoshita	JPN	1,879	1,891	-
#49	Kaito Okamura	JPN	1,878	1,885	-
#50	Azumi Sakai WCM	JPN	1,876	1,853	1,851	Chess.com
#51	Ryosuke Tanaka	JPN	1,873	1,882	-
#52	Show Kitagami	JPN	1,871	1,966	-
#53	Yunosuke Kuroda	JPN	1,871	1,816	-
#54	Yoshiki Honda	JPN	1,870	-	1,875
#55	Vedat Erkoc	JPN	1,864	1,841	-
#56	Atsuya Yamamichi	JPN	1,863	2,052	-
#57	Daniel Haruma Rolston	JPN	1,860	1,916	1,960
#58	Jeremi Nodon	JPN	1,857	1,831	1,831
#59	Taro Abe	JPN	1,856	1,843	1,830
#60	Rushad Patil	JPN	1,854	1,859	1,859
#61	Yuya Yanai	JPN	1,847	1,874	-
#62	Sotaro Ushiyama	JPN	1,846	-	-
#63	Keita Shakuya	JPN	1,844	1,780	-
#64	Ryo Noda	JPN	1,841	1,853	1,569
#65	Hiromasa Saito	JPN	1,841	1,863	-
#66	Misaki Shibata WCM	JPN	1,840	1,749	1,732	Chess.com
#67	Toma Niori	JPN	1,838	1,811	1,668
#68	Yuta Abe	JPN	1,838	1,839	1,779
#69	Mizuki Shirakawa	JPN	1,837	1,832	-
#70	Daigo Kanda	JPN	1,833	1,748	-
#71	Sakae Otake	JPN	1,832	1,774	-
#72	Dai Araki	JPN	1,831	1,794	-
#73	Shuma Endo	JPN	1,829	1,738	1,868
#74	Shun Tokuni	JPN	1,825	1,811	-
#75	Kaishi Sasaki	JPN	1,821	1,697	-
#76	Ryota Kimura	JPN	1,818	1,792	-
#77	Toshiaki Uetani	JPN	1,814	1,891	-
#78	Nathan Summerville	JPN	1,814	1,786	-
#79	Toshiyuki Nagai	JPN	1,809	1,791	1,777
#80	Koshiro Terasawa	JPN	1,808	1,843	-
#81	Sangwoo Jin	JPN	1,800	-	-
#82	Yasuhiro Aoki	JPN	1,798	1,742	-
#83	Atsushi Takenouchi	JPN	1,796	1,803	-
#84	Takahiro Mizumoto	JPN	1,787	1,843	-
#85	Domenic Clark	JPN	1,781	-	1,801
#86	Taiga Takahashi	JPN	1,780	1,834	1,789
#87	Rejold Baze	JPN	1,780	1,741	1,876
#88	Sebastian Endo van Dooijeweert	JPN	1,775	1,526	1,774
#89	Akihiro Sakamoto	JPN	1,771	-	-
#90	Kanon Kawada	JPN	1,771	-	-
#91	Koichi Sugimoto	JPN	1,769	-	-
#92	Hugo Ozaki	JPN	1,768	1,654	-
#93	Natsumi Kojima WCM	JPN	1,764	1,770	1,736	Chess.com
#94	Emi Hasegawa WCM	JPN	1,761	1,748	1,836
#95	Seiichi Ogasa	JPN	1,760	1,793	-
#96	Kentaro Amenomori	JPN	1,760	1,800	1,696
#97	Bunji Takashima	JPN	1,759	1,760	1,768
#98	Jingfei Jie	JPN	1,759	1,686	1,681
#99	Kanako Kinoshita	JPN	1,755	1,778	1,780
#100	Rikka Mitsuyama WCM	JPN	1,748	1,509	1,630

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