Top chess players in New Zealand

The 100 highest-rated active players registered with the New Zealand chess federation (NZL), ranked by FIDE standard rating out of 442 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	Felix Xie IM	NZL	2,439	2,353	2,330
#02	Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang FM	NZL	2,362	2,301	2,234
#03	Tom Middelburg IM	NZL	2,339	-	-
#04	Sravan Renjith IM	NZL	2,326	2,204	2,350	Chess.com
#05	Daniel Hanwen Gong FM	NZL	2,263	2,245	2,127	Chess.com
#06	Daqi Mao FM	NZL	2,239	2,178	2,049
#07	Nicolas Croad FM	NZL	2,190	2,196	2,126
#08	Anthony F Ker IM	NZL	2,180	2,170	2,110	Chess.com
#09	Kendrick Botong Zhang FM	NZL	2,153	2,019	2,010	Chess.com
#10	Peter D McKenzie FM	NZL	2,131	2,234	-
#11	William Rui Liu CM	NZL	2,126	2,088	1,968
#12	Russell John Dive IM	NZL	2,124	2,212	2,061
#13	Matthew Keith	NZL	2,111	2,041	2,053
#14	Justin Zhide Wang CM	NZL	2,103	2,022	2,109	Chess.com
#15	Ilias Angelo (Leo) Baker CM	NZL	2,102	1,900	1,765	Chess.com
#16	Yao Zen Markis Tew CM	NZL	2,094	2,002	1,986	Chess.com
#17	Ryan Winter	NZL	2,093	1,974	1,933
#18	Robert W Smith FM	NZL	2,093	2,051	2,000	Chess.com
#19	Daniel Han	NZL	2,092	2,089	2,060
#20	Tim Hare	NZL	2,070	2,013	1,944
#21	Isabelle Yixuan Ning CM	NZL	2,065	1,824	1,772
#22	Yanbo Jin	NZL	2,059	2,134	1,988
#23	Stephen G Lukey FM	NZL	2,049	2,134	2,184	Chess.com
#24	Ollie Archer FM	NZL	2,049	2,024	1,846	Chess.com
#25	Alistair Compton	NZL	2,049	2,058	1,882
#26	Cohen Young CM	NZL	2,048	2,008	1,840	Chess.com
#27	Antony L Carpinter	NZL	2,034	2,051	2,055
#28	Jenith Wiratunga	NZL	2,034	2,122	2,037
#29	Hao Tang CM	NZL	2,030	1,872	1,848
#30	Leonard J McLaren FM	NZL	2,026	2,062	-
#31	Zachary Yu CM	NZL	2,026	1,933	1,851	Chess.com
#32	Sean Wang	NZL	2,022	-	1,870
#33	Miles Lee CM	NZL	2,012	1,964	1,987
#34	Junqing Jerome Tao	NZL	2,012	1,984	1,802
#35	Matthew David McNabb	NZL	2,008	1,949	1,975
#36	Edward Rains CM	NZL	2,007	1,912	1,939	Chess.com
#37	Joshua Langford CM	NZL	2,007	1,865	1,883	Chess.com
#38	Kayden Loke	NZL	2,006	1,925	1,981
#39	Sai Vivan Karthikeya Somaraju CM	NZL	2,006	1,843	1,740	Chess.com
#40	Oscar Shu Xuan Qin CM	NZL	2,000	1,834	1,913
#41	Dion A Wilson	NZL	1,998	1,893	1,709
#42	Preeyansh Roul	NZL	1,994	1,802	1,742
#43	Edward S Lee	NZL	1,984	1,961	1,979
#44	Thomas Van Der Hoorn CM	NZL	1,982	1,907	1,919
#45	Justin Jimenez	NZL	1,982	-	1,846
#46	Michael V R Steadman FM	NZL	1,982	2,004	2,086
#47	Zhi Yu (Paul) He	NZL	1,979	1,769	1,750
#48	Mark J. Le Brocq	NZL	1,976	1,977	1,853
#49	Jasmine Haomo Zhang WIM	NZL	1,976	1,909	1,950
#50	Hugo Lawrence	NZL	1,966	1,942	-
#51	Alexandre De Maupeou D`ableiges	NZL	1,966	1,793	1,778
#52	Hayden Steele	NZL	1,965	1,986	1,906
#53	R.A. Tony Dowden CM	NZL	1,961	2,113	2,103	Chess.com
#54	Richard Jingjie Liu	NZL	1,956	1,842	1,813
#55	Layla Timergazi WIM	NZL	1,940	1,947	1,930
#56	Richard J Dare	NZL	1,940	1,852	1,889
#57	Christopher Smith	NZL	1,938	1,870	-
#58	Alex Nagorski CM	NZL	1,935	1,808	1,849	Chess.com
#59	Luke Chang	NZL	1,932	1,814	1,979
#60	Benjamin Giles	NZL	1,930	1,915	1,848
#61	Quentin J.F. Johnson CM	NZL	1,926	1,932	1,913
#62	Nicholas Winsley	NZL	1,922	1,921	1,871
#63	Brayden Ross	NZL	1,921	1,869	-
#64	Andrea Rivas Villanueva	NZL	1,921	-	-
#65	Michael Nyberg	NZL	1,920	1,901	1,907
#66	Philli Park-Tamati	NZL	1,919	1,948	1,857
#67	Fuatai Fuatai CM	NZL	1,918	1,926	-
#68	Iain Lamont	NZL	1,918	-	-
#69	Benedict Suazo	NZL	1,916	-	-
#70	Ross McKerras	NZL	1,913	1,855	-
#71	Henry Vital	NZL	1,904	1,852	1,885
#72	Anya Thurner WFM	NZL	1,902	1,797	1,691	Chess.com
#73	Nick Cummings	NZL	1,900	1,950	1,974
#74	Patrick Di Jiang	NZL	1,896	1,781	1,747
#75	Nadia Braganza WFM	NZL	1,893	1,813	1,749
#76	J. Nigel Metge CM	NZL	1,885	1,849	1,755
#77	Helen Milligan CM	NZL	1,885	1,914	1,895	Chess.com
#78	Dylan Tama Piwari	NZL	1,884	1,955	-
#79	Robert Gibbons FM	NZL	1,875	1,914	1,931	Chess.com
#80	Wanyao Sarah Sun WFM	NZL	1,872	1,803	1,725	Chess.com
#81	Patrick Cordue	NZL	1,863	-	-
#82	Karthik Sethuramalingam	NZL	1,861	1,773	1,552
#83	Aristotle Santos	NZL	1,856	1,843	-
#84	Maximilian Fang	NZL	1,854	1,919	1,659
#85	Kerry (haiyan) Peng	NZL	1,849	-	-
#86	Grayson Po`e-Tofaeono	NZL	1,849	1,874	1,792
#87	Oliver Sun	NZL	1,848	1,793	1,812
#88	Michael Lin	NZL	1,845	1,890	1,864
#89	Alan L. Aldridge	NZL	1,844	1,827	1,904
#90	Matthew Ashton	NZL	1,843	1,763	1,725
#91	Jeffrey Rui Yang Lin	NZL	1,842	-	-
#92	Toleafoa Edward Tanoi	NZL	1,840	1,849	1,853
#93	Brendan Reedy	NZL	1,838	1,945	1,785
#94	Felix Mountfort	NZL	1,836	1,623	-
#95	Antonio Krstev	NZL	1,835	1,780	1,796
#96	Zi Yao (kelvin) Wang	NZL	1,834	1,799	1,672
#97	Leighton Nicholls CM	NZL	1,834	1,796	1,761
#98	Luna Yuexiu Xu WCM	NZL	1,834	1,890	1,881	Chess.com
#99	Lucas Zhang	NZL	1,828	1,938	1,832
#100	Abigail Rowe	NZL	1,827	1,517	1,597

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