New Record: 23 Illinois Juniors Rated Above 2000!
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- Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman
- Published: 22 August 2016 22 August 2016
With the arrival of downstaters Caleb Denby and Andrew Fei, Illinois now has 23 juniors rated above 2000 as of the August official ratings. Five juniors are rated above 2200 and are considered "Masters". Between 2000 and 2199 is considered "Expert" territory.
Aren Emrikian jumped into the top five of the 7-and-unders (4th) -- and is the top six-year old in the nation.
Dimitar Mardov (7th), Aydin Turgut (4th), David Peng (5th), Jacob Furfine (10th), and George Li (9th) are also in the top 10 of their respective age groups.
52 appear on one of the top 100 lists with 26 in the top 50 in the country.
| Rank | Name (US Chess ID) | August Rating | |
| Age 7 & Under | |||
| 4 | Emrikian, Aren C (15766785) -- Age 6 | 1630 | |
| Age 8 | |||
| 7 | Mardov, Dimitar (15205818) | 1830 | |
| 20 | Yong, David (15273720) | 1660 | |
| 24 | Zhao, Alex (15335115) | 1611 | |
| 43 | Wang, William (15270976) | 1425 | |
| 52 | Elgat, Adam (15552450) | 1398 | |
| 98 | Chen, David Baokang (15324980) | 1239 | |
| Age 9 | |||
| 15 | Xu, Arthur Zihan (14968896) | 1855 | |
| 95 | Cahill, William (15096335) | 1440 | |
| 100 | Danilyan, Eduard (15187868) | 1421 | |
| Age 10 | |||
| 53 | Gan, Aaron X (14678952) | 1688 | |
| Age 11 | |||
| 4 | Turgut, Aydin (14284734) | 2198 | |
| 36 | Rao, Patrick (14855075) | 1897 | |
| 41 | Zheng, Peter (15075977) | 1888 | |
| 48 | Bareket, Adam (14949325) | 1874 | |
| 100 | Ladan, Nicholas John (15092641) | 1682 | |
| Age 12 | |||
| 20 | Wang, Ricky (14403974) | 2057 | |
| 43 | Acharya, Siddharth (15165476) | 1925 | |
| 58 | Carey, Aidan M (14949435) | 1866 | |
| 62 | Gong, Brian Hope (14663750) | 1853 | |
| 65 | Jay, Neel (14803101) | 1847 | |
| 82 | Hoesley, Aria (14631046) | 1808 | |
| Age 13 | |||
| 5 | Peng, David Tianjian (14195454) | 2352 | |
| 26 | Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163) | 2080 | |
| 61 | Bareket, Tom (14949310) | 1935 | |
| 62 | Zhang, Edward (14685367) | 1934 | |
| 65 | Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) | 1921 | |
| 72 | Ganesan, Ishaar Perumal (14072830) | 1893 | |
| Age 14 | |||
| 23 | Do, Vincent (13666696) | 2161 | |
| 47 | Hao, Hanson (13858968) | 2026 | |
| 52 | Liu, Miranda (14042343) | 2016 | |
| 64 | Li, Marissa (14468490) | 1975 | |
| 74 | Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152) | 1955 | |
| 94 | Rai, Tej (14712050) | 1897 | |
| Age 15 | |||
| 10 | Furfine, Jacob (13089315) | 2277 | |
| 26 | Stevens, Matthew James (13788934) | 2169 | |
| 33 | Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325) | 2137 | |
| 34 | Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215) | 2125 | |
| 57 | Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428) | 2075 | |
| 65 | Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221) | 2060 | |
| Age 16 | |||
| 9 | Li, Zhaozhi (13646954) | 2361 | |
| 16 | Bian, Alex (13257335) | 2302 | |
| 41 | Adve, Anshul (13296020) | 2154 | |
| 42 | Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472) | 2149 | |
| 59 | Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367) | 2081 | |
| 73 | Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411) | 2026 | |
| Age 17 | |||
| 28 | Lehmann, Spencer (13457744) | 2202 | |
| 59 | Holecek, Zachary (12933315) | 2037 | |
| 63 | Denby, Caleb Sean (14361200) | 2031 | |
| 96 | Parker-Turner, Phillip (12954448) | 1954 | |
| Age 18 | |||
| 29 | Hrach, Jonathan Matthew (14094872) | 2188 | |
| 79 | Holzmueller, Nathan (13899472) | 1987 | |