Hitting the Top 100 lists in the USA is as easy as 1-2-3 for motivated Illinois youth as of the latest month, July.   Such ratings include results submitted to US Chess through June 20.

Number 1: Rated 800 points higher than the second-rated Illinois 7-year-old, Chicagoan Raj Chennreddy remains atop all US 7-and-Unders as of the July 2018 ratings.

Number 2: Reigning Under 8 World Champion Aren Emrikian ranks number two nationally for players currently aged 8.  The north surbanite is approaching Expert status!

Number 3: Northwest suburbanite Dimitar Mardov is busily preparing to represent Illinois at the National Barber competition beginning this weekend in Middleton, WI.  He ranks number three among 9-year-olds in the US this month.

 

And Illinois proudly boasts two fourth-ranked players: David Peng (15) and George Li (18) both rank fourth in their respective age group this month.  

David will be representing Illinois in the National Denker competition held in conjunction with Barber and the National Girls Tournament of Champions starting July 28.

West suburbanite Marissa Li will once again represent the Land of Lincoln in the NGTOC. Marissa is one of five Illinois girls to hit the July Top 100 lists irrespective of gender.

Illinois is the defending champion of compiling the highest combined score of Denker, Barber and National Girl entrants thanks to performances last year from George Li, Aydin Turgut and Marissa.

Good luck to all at the US Open -- and keep striving to join those Top 100 lists!

 

Ages 7 & Under
1		Chennareddy, Yuvraj Rudra (15944053)	1853
67		Fang, Elbert (16396413)	1050
85		Lutfiyya, Hudson (15747811)	1016
Age 8
2		Emrikian, Aren C (15766785)	1946
26		Gronski, Gabriel W (16268077)	1589
27		Shetty, Anshul P (15752957)	1582
66		Bayyarapu, Mohit Sreejan (15582120)	1378
94		Prakash, Nandini (16085871)	1293
Age 9
3		Mardov, Dimitar (15205818)	2119
54		Mehrotra, Ekansh (15991103)	1601
86		Li, Michael (15752152)	1486
Age 10
30		Yong, David (15273720)	1817
32		Zhao, Alex (15335115)	1805
57		Wang, William (15270976)	1728
64		Elgat, Adam (15552450)	1703
82		Malladi, Sadkrith (15797710)	1649
Age 11
13		Xu, Arthur (14968896)	2091
45		Kaplan, Avi Harrison (15263943)	1891
Age 12
No one from Illinois at this time
Age 13
6		Turgut, Aydin (14284734)	2268
48		Bareket, Adam (14949325)	2024
60		Reddy, Shreyas (15276866)	1977
66		Ladan, Nicholas John (15092641)	1971
100		Rao, Patrick (14855075)	1888
Age 14
27		Wang, Ricky (14403974)	2155
66		Li, Si R (14231898)	1958
71		Hoesley, Aria (14631046)	1955
85		Yuan, Fredrich (14765430)	1914
Age 15
4		Peng, David Tianjian (14195454)	2463
43		Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521)	2103
53		Li, Marissa (14468490)	2046
67		Ganesan, Ishaar Perumal (14072830)	2003
70		Bareket, Tom (14949310)	1997
71		Zhang, Edward (14685367)	1995
88		Ho, Kevin (14701285)	1957
Age 16
19		Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215)	2245
21		Do, Vincent (13666696)	2220
28		Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221)	2174
72		Liu, Miranda (14042343)	2017
99		Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152)	1962
Age 17
9		Bian, Alex (13257335)	2411
10		Furfine, Jacob (13089315)	2379
20		Stevens, Matthew James (13788934)	2261
51		Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325)	2149
78		Zhang, Richard (14006780)	2038
93		Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428)	1988
Age 18
4		Li, Zhaozhi (13646954)	2476
28		Adve, Anshul (13296020)	2213
33		Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472)	2167
37		Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367)	2155
64		Starkman, Eric Chandler (14556452)	2039
68		Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411)	2020
80		Wei, James (13577813)	1975