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| World U12 gold medalist Sam Sevian |
The following two lists show the top masters who are currently active and live in Northern California. I exempted local juniors who attend college out of state from the residency requirement.
Both USCF and FIDE ratings are official as of December 2012. Please contact me if I may have overlooked someone.
Here are some broad observations. Not surprisingly, the twin rankings include almost all of the same players. In fact, the only exceptions are SM Gregory Kotlyar (#19 USCF) and IM Elliott Winslow (#15 FIDE). Nobody can doubt who the most active titled player is on the Bay Area scene: IM
Ricardo DeGuzman. Now that former World U18 champions GM Sam Shankland and IM Steven Zierk attend college in Massachusetts, only four star juniors remain: former
World U12 champion IM
Daniel Naroditsky, former
US U20 (Junior) champion SM
Greg Young, current
World U12 champion SM
Sam Sevian and former
US U16 (Cadet) champion FM
Yian Liou. All four are concentrating on earning GM/IM
norms and none has played locally in half a year. However, Greg, Sam and Yian all participated in the
Metropolitan Chess International in Los Angeles last August.
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NORCAL TOP 20 USCF |
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NORCAL TOP 20 FIDE |
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| 1 |
GM Shankland, Sam |
2684 |
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GM Shankland, Sam |
2595 |
| 2 |
GM DeFirmian, Nick |
2575 |
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GM DeFirmian, Nick |
2510 |
| 3 |
IM Naroditsky, Daniel |
2553 |
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IM Naroditsky, Daniel |
2483 |
| 4 |
GM Browne, Walter |
2524 |
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IM Zierk, Steven |
2477 |
| 5 |
IM Zierk, Steven |
2519 |
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GM Browne, Walter |
2448 |
| 6 |
FM De La Cruz, Alfredo |
2488 |
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IM DeGuzman, Ricardo |
2400 |
| 7 |
IM Zilberstein, Dmitry |
2468 |
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SM Sharma, Arun |
2391 |
| 8 |
SM Sharma, Arun |
2467 |
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IM Zilberstein, Dmitry |
2390 |
| 9 |
SM Young, Greg |
2467 |
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IM Donaldson, John |
2390 |
| 10 |
SM Sevian, Sam |
2451 |
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FM Strugatsky, Vladimir |
2390 |
| 11 |
FM Chumachenko, Andrey |
2435 |
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SM Young, Greg |
2367 |
| 12 |
FM Liou, Yian |
2432 |
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IM Pruess, David |
2363 |
| 13 |
IM Pruess, David |
2431 |
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FM Liou, Yian |
2352 |
| 14 |
IM Mezentsev, Vladimir |
2429 |
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IM Mezentsev, Vladimir |
2352 |
| 15 |
IM DeGuzman, Ricardo |
2423 |
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IM Winslow, Elliott |
2348 |
| 16 |
IM Kaufman, Raymond |
2422 |
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IM Kaufman, Raymond |
2345 |
| 17 |
FM Strugatsky, Vladimir |
2421 |
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SM Sevian, Sam |
2343 |
| 18 |
IM Donaldson, John |
2408 |
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FM Chumachenko, Andrey |
2327 |
| 19 |
SM Kotlyar, Gregory |
2402 |
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FM De La Cruz, Alfredo |
2318 |
| 20 |
NM Ishkhanov, Tigran |
2364 |
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NM Ishkhanov, Tigran |
2306 |
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