Top chess players under 21 in California
The 27 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 | #3 | 2,660 | |
| 2 | Kirk Ghazarian | #4 | 2,613 | |
| 3 | Vyom Vidyarthi | #23 | 2,474 | |
| 4 | Julian Colville | #25 | 2,465 | |
| 5 | Isaac Wang | #27 | 2,459 | |
| 6 | Eric Yuhan Li | #34 | 2,430 | |
| 7 | Ethan Guo | #35 | 2,427 | |
| 8 | Rose Atwell | #38 | 2,418 | |
| 9 | Lucas Jiang | #41 | 2,415 | |
| 9 | Bryan Xie | #41 | 2,415 | |
| 11 | Dylan Tang | #52 | 2,388 | |
| 12 | Paris Prestia | #53 | 2,385 | |
| 13 | Henry Deng | #58 | 2,372 | |
| 14 | Patrick Peijun Liu | #65 | 2,357 | |
| 15 | Austin R Mei | #70 | 2,355 | |
| 16 | Tommy Wen | #71 | 2,354 | |
| 17 | David Gasparyan | #72 | 2,351 | |
| 18 | Luke Widjaja | #73 | 2,345 | |
| 19 | Sebastian Suarez | #78 | 2,339 | |
| 19 | Aryan Achuthan | #78 | 2,339 | |
| 21 | Ming Lu | #80 | 2,338 | |
| 22 | Jashith Karthi | #82 | 2,337 | |
| 23 | Rohan Rajaram | #85 | 2,336 | |
| 24 | Ashwin Damaraju | #86 | 2,335 | |
| 25 | Rochelle Wu | #92 | 2,327 | |
| 26 | Pranav Sathish | #95 | 2,323 | |
| 27 | Shaaketh Sivakumar | #98 | 2,321 |