An amazing array of 26 Illinois juniors find themselves in the top 50 of their respective age group nationwide as the May 2017 ratings. These ratings reflect tournaments posted through the third week of April which did not yet include SuperNationals VI.

#1 in the lowest age category (7 & Under) is Aren Emrikian with Dimitar Mardov #2 in the Age 8 group. Aydin Turgut (8 in Age 12), David Peng (7 in Age 14), Jacob Furfine (10 in Age 15) and George Li (6 in Age 17) are the other Illinois top ten'ers.

New to this month's lists is Illinois K-1 Champion Anshul Shetty, coming in at #43 in the US for Age 7. The complete list is below:

	Ages 7 & Under
	1		Emrikian, Aren C (15766785)		1860
	43		Shetty, Anshul P (15752957)		1217
	Age 8
	2		Mardov, Dimitar (15205818)		1965
	Age 9
	18		Wang, William (15270976)		1834
	23		Zhao, Alex (15335115)		1767
	24		Yong, David (15273720)		1742
	Age 10
	T-15		Xu, Arthur (14968896)		1999
	Age 11
	28		Rao, Patrick (14855075)		1897
	Age 12
	8		Turgut, Aydin (14284734)		2214
	Age 13
	20		Wang, Ricky (14403974)		2098
	27		Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163)		2067
	Age 14
	7		Peng, David Tianjian (14195454)		2361
	T-35		Li, Marissa (14468490)		2119
	Age 15
	10		Furfine, Jacob (13089315)		2293
	27		Do, Vincent (13666696)		2170
	30		Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221)		2150
	41		Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215)		2098
	Age 16
	14		Bian, Alex (13257335)		2314
	30		Stevens, Matthew James (13788934)		2206
	43		Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325)		2150
	49		Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367)		2122
	Age 17
	6		Li, Zhaozhi (13646954)		2437
	35		Adve, Anshul (13296020)		2201
	41		Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472)		2169
	Age 18
	16		Lehmann, Spencer (13457744)		2283
	31		Hrach, Jonathan Matthew (14094872)		2204

Astute readers will note that these listings only include only the top 50 -- instead of the top 100 previously published. This is due to legal reasons which we hope to see ironed out in the near future.