Thursday, January 5

NorCal Top 20 for January 2017

Bay Area star GM Sam Shankland faces Super-GM Levon Aronian at 2015 World Team Championship.

NorCal Top 20
January 2017 USCF ratings
  1. GM Sam Shankland 2755
  2. GM Parimarjan Negi 2742
  3. GM Daniel Naroditsky 2732
  4. GM Cristian Chirila 2593
  5. GM Nick DeFirmian 2566
  6. IM Steven Zierk 2559
  7. IM-e Cameron Wheeler 2479
  8. SM Arun Sharma 2468
  9. IM Kesav Viswanadha 2456
  10. IM Vignesh Panchanatham 2450
  11. IM Ricardo DeGuzman 2431 
  12. IM David Pruess 2408
  13. IM Ray Kaufman 2402
  14. NM Faik Aleskerov 2399
  15. NM Jack Zhu 2399
  16. FM Rayan Taghizadeh 2375
  17. NM Andrew Hong 2370
  18. FM Andy Lee 2361
  19. NM Daniel Schwarz 2360
  20. NM Ladia Jirasek 2343
In general, all players have completed one Bay Area tournament within the past year. Exceptions made for local titled players who are active out of state or abroad. 

Honorable Mention (players with local roots who have been less active recently)
  • GM Vinay Bhat 2570
  • IM Yian Liou 2500
  • IM Vincent McCambridge 2496
  • IM Vladimir Mezentsev 2435
  • IM John Donaldson 2412
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