50 Illinois youth find themselves in the top 100's nationwide by age group, three of whom are in the top five. Dimitar Mardov and Aydin Turgut are both ranked fifth, David Peng is third.

Four more are in the top 10: Aren Emrikian, George Li, Arthur Xu and Jacob Furfine.

Illinois' list includes two pairs of brothers and four females. Illinois' impressive junior roster includes an amazing eight Masters and 18 Experts.

With 20% more combined population than our state, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin have only three junior Masters and seven Experts. See table after Illinois' top 100's.

See the impressive October list below: 

  

US Rank		Name (USCF ID #)	Oct '16 Rating
Ages 7 and Under
7		Emrikian, Aren C (15766785) - Age 6	1626
79		Kong, Ryan (15737945)	1070
Age 8
5		Mardov, Dimitar (15205818)	1853
11		Yong, David (15273720)	1732
20		Zhao, Alex (15335115)	1640
60		Chen, David Baokang (15324980)	1362
72		Elgat, Adam (15552450)	1317
Age 9
8		Xu, Arthur (14968896)	1948
59		Wang, William (15270976)	1553
95		Cahill, William (15096335)	1440
Age 10
None from IL in  US Top 100
Age 11
34		Rao, Patrick (14855075)	1901
39		Zheng, Peter (15075977)	1887
46		Bareket, Adam (14949325)	1844
Age 12
5		Turgut, Aydin (14284734)	2200
40		Acharya, Siddharth (15165476)	1925
56		Carey, Aidan M (14949435)	1895
63		Gong, Brian Hope (14663750)	1871
84		Hoesley, Aria (14631046)	1815
85		Jay, Neel (14803101)	1806
Age 13
3		Peng, David Tianjian (14195454)	2374
24		Wang, Ricky (14403974)	2074
26		Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163)	2069
59		Bareket, Tom (14949310)	1947
65		Zhang, Edward (14685367)	1919
85		Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521)	1852
Age 14
27		Do, Vincent (13666696)	2181
59		Li, Marissa (14468490)	2008
87		Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152)	1931
98		Rai, Tej (14712050)	1897
Age 15
10		Furfine, Jacob (13089315)	2282
24		Stevens, Matthew James (13788934)	2189
31		Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215)	2143
46		Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221)	2082
59		Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428)	2058
63		Hao, Hanson (13858968)	2042
79		Liu, Miranda (14042343)	2010
Age 16
8		Li, Zhaozhi (13646954)	2382
20		Bian, Alex (13257335)	2286
31		Adve, Anshul (13296020)	2206
42		Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472)	2159
50		Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325)	2129
59		Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367)	2079
76		Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411)	2026
Age 17
25		Lehmann, Spencer (13457744)	2223
60		Denby, Caleb Sean (14361200)	2043
72		Holecek, Zachary (12933315)	2014
Age 18
20		Hrach, Jonathan Matthew (14094872)	2204
57		Chen, John (13728578)	2045
67		Holzmueller, Nathan (13899472)	2004
80		Parker-Turner, Phillip (12954448)	1954

 

	Illinois	IA, WI, and IN combined	October 2016 Data
	50	28	Top 100 Juniors in US
	18	7	Junior Experts
	8	3	Junior Masters
	26	10	Junior Experts + Masters
	12.9	15.5	Millions in Population (as of 7/1/2015)