Top blitz chess players under 21 in California
The 24 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.
Gender
| # | Player | US | Rating | MoveChange |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Woojin Yoo | #4 | 2,554 | |
| 2 | Kirk Ghazarian | #16 | 2,314 | |
| 3 | Isaac Wang | #17 | 2,310 | |
| 4 | Eric Yuhan Li | #20 | 2,283 | |
| 5 | Vyom Vidyarthi | #22 | 2,271 | |
| 6 | Shaaketh Sivakumar | #30 | 2,224 | |
| 7 | Ashwin Damaraju | #35 | 2,216 | |
| 8 | Ethan Guo | #37 | 2,215 | |
| 9 | Paris Prestia | #44 | 2,201 | |
| 10 | Rose Atwell | #47 | 2,182 | |
| 11 | Dylan Tang | #51 | 2,173 | |
| 12 | Aryan Achuthan | #54 | 2,170 | |
| 13 | Julian Colville | #60 | 2,158 | |
| 14 | Ephraim M Rosenstock | #64 | 2,150 | |
| 15 | Ivan Zhou | #66 | 2,147 | |
| 16 | Jashith Karthi | #70 | 2,140 | |
| 17 | Bryan Xie | #75 | 2,134 | |
| 18 | Ming Lu | #77 | 2,129 | |
| 19 | Rochelle Wu | #86 | 2,112 | |
| 20 | Suyuan Gui | #88 | 2,109 | |
| 21 | Sebastian Suarez | #90 | 2,107 | |
| 22 | Pranav Sathish | #91 | 2,105 | |
| 23 | Sepehr Golsefidy | #94 | 2,102 | |
| 24 | Austin R Mei | #100 | 2,092 |