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