Top blitz chess players under 21 in California
The 24 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 | Christopher Woojin Yoo | #4 | 2554 | No change |
| 2 | Kirk Ghazarian | #16 | 2314 | No change |
| 3 | Isaac Wang | #17 | 2310 | No change |
| 4 | Eric Yuhan Li | #18 | 2283 | 2 places up nationally since last month |
| 5 | Ashwin Damaraju | #20 | 2272+56 | 15 places up nationally since last month |
| 6 | Vyom Vidyarthi | #21 | 2271 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 7 | Rose Atwell | #23 | 2263+81 | 24 places up nationally since last month |
| 8 | David Gasparyan | #31 | 2233 | New |
| 9 | Shaaketh Sivakumar | #33 | 2224 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 10 | Ethan Guo | #38 | 2215 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 11 | Paris Prestia | #43 | 2193-8 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 12 | Dylan Tang | #50 | 2173 | 1 place up nationally since last month |
| 13 | Aryan Achuthan | #54 | 2170 | No change |
| 14 | Julian Colville | #58 | 2165+7 | 2 places up nationally since last month |
| 15 | Ephraim M Rosenstock | #65 | 2152+2 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 16 | Ivan Zhou | #70 | 2147 | 4 places down nationally since last month |
| 17 | Jashith Karthi | #74 | 2140 | 4 places down nationally since last month |
| 18 | Bryan Xie | #78 | 2134 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 19 | Ming Lu | #79 | 2129 | 2 places down nationally since last month |
| 20 | Rochelle Wu | #87 | 2112 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 21 | Suyuan Gui | #89 | 2109 | 1 place down nationally since last month |
| 22 | Sebastian Suarez | #92 | 2107 | 2 places down nationally since last month |
| 23 | Pranav Sathish | #94 | 2105 | 3 places down nationally since last month |
| 24 | Sepehr Golsefidy | #98 | 2102 | 4 places down nationally since last month |