USCF Top 100 Lists published April 2013

Details: Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman; Published: 26 April 2013 26 April 2013

Some new names from Illinois have entered the USCF top 100 lists as of the ICA K-8 Championships held in Normal March 9 and 10.

David Zimmermann entered the list of top 7-year olds, Jonah Karafiol nabbed a spot amongst the top US 8-year olds and Emmett Madigan is now in the top century of 9-year olds.

Among high schoolers, Timothy Zhou is now a ranked 16-year old and David Paykin is a top-100 17-year old.

Aaron Gan retains his place as the top Illinois player aged 7 or younger. Amazingly the 6-year old has jumped 253 rating points in two months, placing him in the top 25 of all players 7-and-under. Aaron is actually the fifth-rated 6-year old in the country.

Aaron and David (Zimmermann) drew in the sixth round of the K-1 competition in Normal, with Aaron taking first and David second based on tiebreakers.

David Peng (2nd in age 9), Aydin Turgut (3rd in age 8), Adarsh Jayakumar (4th in age 18) and Sam Schmakel (8th in age 16) remain the Illinois players in the top ten of their respective age groups nationwide. David (K-6) and Aydin (K-3) both claimed National Championships at SuperNationals - but that did not factor in to these listings.

Jason Daniels, Vincent Do, Alex Bian, Zhaozhi Li, Jonathan Kogan and Matthew Wilber are all top 20 Americans of their respective age groups. Miranda Liu is 19th among young ladies under 13, 11th among girls 11 or younger.

Aged 18 years or younger, Illinois currently boasts three masters, Sam, Jonathan and Adarsh, along with a minion of ten experts.

US Rank	Name	Rating
Age 7 and under
25	Aaron Gan (age 6)	1376
67	David Zimmermann	1152
69	Jai Mahajan	1149
Age 8
3	Aydin Turgut	1839
	Stefan Musikic	1476
54	Brian Hope Gong	1365
73	Suraj Ramanathan	1315
92	Jonah Karafiol	1234
Age 9
2	David Peng	2111
17	Jason Daniels	1717
60T	Shreya Mangalam	1494
80	Emmett Madigan	1425
84T	Ricky Wang	1419
92T	Michael Geohas	1407
Age 10
	None from Illinois
Age 11
18	Vincent Do	1931
44	Hanson Ho	1780
55	Akhil Kalghatgi	1743
69	Nikhil Kalghatgi	1688
71	Miranda Liu	1684
Age 12
17	Alex Bian	2068
34	Matthew Stevens	1951
50T	Abe Sun	1874
61T	Jack Curcio	1843
72	Daniel Bronfeyn	1797
92	Blair Hu	1734
94	Jack Xiao	1728
Age 13
14	Zhaozhi Li	2117
45	Anshul Adve	1924
75T	Bryce McClanahan	1812
84	Ian Gilchrist	1792
Age 14
38	Zachary Holecek	2007
61	Spencer Lehmann	1906
69T	Jonathan Hrach	1875
Age 15
	None in Illinois
Age 16
8	Sam Schmakel	2292
33T	Gavin McClanahan	2059
42	Max Zinski	2015
44T	Nathan Kranjc	2007
74	Penny Xu	1906
77T	Jimi Akintonde	1884
90T	Timothy Zhou	1840
Age 17
14	Jonathan Kogan	2248
66T	Charles Swan	1960
71	Chengliang Luo	1940
87	David Paykin	1881
91T	Christian Kavouras	1871
Age 18
4	Adarsh Jayakumar	2347
16	Matthew Wilber	2183
29	Robert Moskwa	2087
31	Kent Cen	2076
77	Benjamin Stern	1925
91	Rafeh Qazi	1889
Girls Under 16
52	Miranda Liu (11)	1684
Girls Under 13
19	Miranda Liu (11)	1684
53	Shreya Mangalam (9)	1494
61	Cassie Parent (12)	1453
81	Anjali Toly (12)	1387

Miranda, Shreya and Penny Xu remain in the top 100 of their age groups, irrespective of gender.

Among females under 21, Penny (holding still at 1906) is 40th , 18-year old Madeleine Reiches is 93rd (USCF rating of 1699) and Miranda is 99th.

Under 21 Males

Overall nationwide in under-21 rankings, U of I freshman Eric Rosen is 26th based on his 2391 rating, Adarsh is 39th, Sam is tied for 57th and Jonathan is 89th.

According to USCF specifications, ratings as of March 15 were used for this report and the top 100 lists were published April 22. This means that Illinois K-8 Championship post-event ratings were used, but that SuperNationals results will not factor in until the June lists.