Despite being shut out in the 11-year old ranks, Illinois posted 55 juniors in the top 100 nationwide as of the September ratings, ages 7 through 18. A couple players may have left but the state, but until they update their US Chess membership, we'll still claim them as native sons!

Three Illinois juniors rank number two in their respective age groups, Aren Emrikian (age 7 & under), Dimitar Mardov (age 9) and David Peng (age 14).

Yuvraj Chennareddy had an amazing summer, raising his rating to 1523 as a 7-year old, ranking 14th in the US now.

For the first time in recent memory, Illinois has two players in the top 10 of the same age group with George Li and Alex Bian rated 6th and 7th among US 17-year olds.

The complete September list is posted below. Events submitted prior to August 16 were included in these results.

			Sept '17
Rank		Name	Rating
Ages 7 & Under
2		Emrikian, Aren C (15766785)	1850
14		Chennareddy, Yuvraj Rudra (15944053)	1523
32		Shetty, Anshul P (15752957)	1302
89		Narava, Akshith (15953035)	1017
93		Wicks, Colin Robert (16090713)	1009
93		Sakaliyski, Christopher (16115040)	1009
Age 8
60		Mehrotra, Ekansh (15991103)	1350
89		Li, Michael (15752152)	1272
Age 9
2		Mardov, Dimitar (15205818)	2077
20		Wang, William (15270976)	1857
31		Zhao, Alex (15335115)	1712
33		Yong, David (15273720)	1710
59		Elgat, Adam (15552450)	1578
77		Chen, David Baokang (15324980)	1513
Age 10
9		Xu, Arthur (14968896)	2023
59		Kaplan, Avi Harrison (15263943)	1702
82		Malladi, Sadkrith (15797710)	1627
93		Cahill, William (15096335)	1596
Age 11
None from Illinois at this time.
Age 12
51		Rao, Patrick (14855075)	1889
66		Bareket, Adam (14949325)	1853
77		Bruha, Nicholas (15248108)	1802
81		Ladan, Nicholas John (15092641)	1790
Age 13
8		Turgut, Aydin (14284734)	2261
21		Wang, Ricky (14403974)	2120
68		Li, Si R (14231898)	1912
90		Reddy, Shreyas (15276866)	1857
91		Carey, Aidan M (14949435)	1856
94		Gong, Brian Hope (14663750)	1850
Age 14
2		Peng, David Tianjian (14195454)	2398
41		Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163)	2067
46		Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521)	2056
62		Zhang, Edward (14685367)	1985
91		Bareket, Tom (14949310)	1910
92		Ho, Kevin (14701285)	1909
Age 15
26		Do, Vincent (13666696)	2213
47		Li, Marissa (14468490)	2104
80		Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152)	1972
87		Ganesan, Ishaar Perumal (14072830)	1962
Age 16
12		Furfine, Jacob (13089315)	2328
24		Stevens, Matthew James (13788934)	2216
34		Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215)	2183
44		Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221)	2137
45		Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325)	2136
72		Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428)	2047
78		Liu, Miranda (14042343)	2026
Age 17
6		Li, Zhaozhi (13646954)	2461
7		Bian, Alex (13257335)	2411
31		Adve, Anshul (13296020)	2194
32		Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472)	2182
41		Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367)	2134
69		Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411)	2020
71		Wei, James (13577813)	2010
Age 18
15		Lehmann, Spencer (13457744)	2292
43		Denby, Caleb Sean (14361200)	2136
74		Holecek, Zachary (12933315)	2014