Top 16-year-old chess players in California
The 25 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 | Julian Colville | #4 | 2473+8 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 2 | Isaac Wang | #5 | 2460+1 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 3 | Bryan Xie | #8 | 2415 | No change |
| 4 | Dylan Tang | #10 | 2397 | New |
| 5 | Henry Deng | #13 | 2372 | 4 places down nationally since last month |
| 6 | Pranav Sathish | #15 | 2323 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 7 | Sebastian Suarez | #18 | 2310-29 | 5 places down nationally since last month |
| 8 | Andrew Guo | #21 | 2307 | 2 places down nationally since last month |
| 9 | Vedant Maheshwari | #26 | 2266 | 4 places down nationally since last month |
| 10 | Nathan Yan | #27 | 2262 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 11 | Advay Bansal | #30 | 2253-10 | 5 places down nationally since last month |
| 12 | Gordon Zhenyu Xu | #33 | 2236 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 13 | Omya Vidyarthi | #42 | 2203-8 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 14 | Sepehr Golsefidy | #51 | 2182 | New |
| 15 | Austin Jin | #52 | 2180 | New |
| 16 | Suyuan Gui | #56 | 2165 | New |
| 17 | Leo Q Wang | #58 | 2160-10 | 8 places down nationally since last month |
| 18 | Kanwar Sethi | #60 | 2159+1 | 7 places down nationally since last month |
| 19 | Tori Porat | #65 | 2135-34 | 14 places down nationally since last month |
| 20 | Andersen Yang | #71 | 2100+2 | 6 places down nationally since last month |
| 21 | Imran Champsi | #74 | 2094 | 7 places down nationally since last month |
| 22 | William Z He | #78 | 2089+22 | 2 places up nationally since last month |
| 23 | Daniel Videna | #81 | 2082+24 | 6 places up nationally since last month |
| 24 | Kishan Chidipudi | #87 | 2066 | New |
| 25 | Roi Weiss | #97 | 2051 | New |