Top 14-year-old chess players in California
The 20 highest-rated players from California on the national US Chess list for October 2026. Anyone from California who isn’t listed is rated below them. The US column shows each player’s national rank. Movement is measured against September 2026.
Gender
| # | Player | US | Rating | Movevs last month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Peijun Liu | #7 | 2361+4 | No change |
| 2 | Jashith Karthi | #8 | 2339+2 | No change |
| 3 | Ashwin Damaraju | #9 | 2335 | No change |
| 4 | Ivan Zhou | #15 | 2267+9 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 5 | Sarthak Gattani | #17 | 2246+24 | No change |
| 6 | Samarth Rajesh Ragavan | #23 | 2196+8 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 7 | Jayden Wu | #26 | 2181 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 8 | Jenny Qi | #35 | 2140+84 | 26 places up nationally since last month |
| 9 | Forest J Sherwood | #39 | 2129-44 | 12 places down nationally since last month |
| 10 | Charlie Sun | #49 | 2096 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 11 | Evan Shi | #52 | 2093+3 | 3 places up nationally since last month |
| 12 | Jackson Scamehorn | #54 | 2091 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 13 | Oliver Hsiao | #60 | 2077-2 | 4 places down nationally since last month |
| 14 | Nair Ahsan | #61 | 2071 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 15 | David Jin | #69 | 2047+7 | 2 places down nationally since last month |
| 16 | George Huang | #70 | 2037 | 2 places down nationally since last month |
| 16 | Sabarish Kailasam | #70 | 2037-7 | 6 places down nationally since last month |
| 18 | Marc Bronshtein | #79 | 2014 | No change |
| 19 | Jason Jialong Ju | #87 | 2006 | New |
| 20 | Kaiwen Yu | #100 | 1988 | 9 places down nationally since last month |