Top 17-year-old chess players in California

The 17 highest-rated players from California on the national US Chess list for September 2026. Anyone from California who isn’t listed is rated below them. The US column shows each player’s national rank.

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Top 17-Year-Old Chess Players in California (Sep 2026)
#PlayerUSRatingMove
1Rose Atwell#52,418
2Luke Widjaja#102,345
3Shaaketh Sivakumar#112,321
4Ephraim M Rosenstock#142,304
5Vishva Nanugonda#172,263
6Nitish SG Nathan#272,210
7Jacob Chiang#282,209
8Andrew Wang#322,198
9Kaustubh Kodihalli#372,187
10Yanfeng Guo#412,152
11Arjun Damaraju#462,134
12Avery Yu#612,088
13Warren Xiao Zhang#692,084
14Anika Rajaram#722,078
15Tanush Srihanuman Komatineni#772,064
16Travis Blaise Kinney#912,019
17Ethan Hsiao#982,011
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