Several changes in how the USCF processes its top 100 lists, as well as a change in personnel, lead to the delay in publication of this month's tallies. The rules also changed regarding the timing of the birthday calculation.

On the local front, numerous birthdays transitioned many top Illinois players to its incremental counterpart: Aaron Gan, Martin Stukan, David Peng, Shreya Mangalam, Edward Zhang, James Wei and Sam Schmakel. Happy Birthday to you all!

For David Korobov, turning 19 means the end of his run on the youth top 100 lists but I'm sure we'll continue to see great things from David, an expert, who tied for seventh out of 86 at the recent Fineberg Memorial. 

For the second month in a row, Illinois boasts four juniors with Masters titles and 14 Experts, even with David's birthday, thanks to Matthew Stevens rejoining the group. Just wait until next month's official ratings -- or more likely September's when July's Chicago Class results are factored in.

Joining the nation's top 100 lists for the first time was 5-year old Dimitar Mardov. Dimitar is actually the top-rated 5-year old in the US, but the USCF has a catchall list for 7-and-unders. Only one other 5-year old made the June list and Dimitar is 38 points higher than his Texas counterpart.

Ricky Wang posted the most dramatic rating increase with a 151-point bump, entering Class A territory for the first time. He is now the top 10-year old in the State of Illinois!

Vrishank Ramnath was up 95 rating points over May, Jonathan Tan enhanced his rating 62 points.

Ratings as of May 21 were used to develop the lists which were published by the USCF July 3.

** Represents ranking in the listing without regard to Federation.

 June 2014 Top 100 Youth

US Rank	Name	Rating
Age 7 and under
37	Arthur Xu	1303
43	Vrishank Ramnath	1258
49T	Dimitar Mardov (age 5)	1205
Age 8
11	David Zimmermann	1645
12	Aaron Gan	1640
56	Jai Mahajan	1344
64	Patrick Rao	1315
94	Jayant Maheswari	1232
Age 9
2	Aydin Turgut	2034
21**	Martin Stukan	1756
40	Stefan Musikic	1670
79T	Adam Bareket	1507
Age 10
27T	Ricky Wang	1843
49	Jason Daniels	1726
55T	Advaith Prabu	1708
Age 11
2	David Peng	2237
39T	Shreya Mangalam	1822
48	Marissa Li	1776
92	Edward Zhang	1681
Age 12
18	Vincent Do	2058
31	Hanson Hao	1971
32	Jacob Furfine	1966
51T	Akhil Kalghatgi	1880
70	Miranda Liu	1819
77	Tej Rai	1803
85T	Nikhil Kalghatgi	1787
Age 13
27T	Alex Bian	2090
29	Daniel Bronfeyn	2083
39	Matthew Stevens	2029
41	Jack Curcio	2003
54	Jonathan Tan	1950
Age 14
34T	Zhaozhi (George) Li	2099
60	Anshul Adve	1970
92	James Wei	1874
96	Andrew Fei	1851
Age 15
43	Zachary Holecek	2059
45	Spencer Lehmann	2056
62	Jonathan Hrach	1977
Age 16
	None From Illinois
Age 17
13	Nate Kranjc	2230
26	Max Zinski	2142
45	Gavin McClanahan	2072
76	Penny Xu	1966
83	Timothy Zhou	1946
85	Eli Goering	1934
92	Jimi Akintonde	1927
Age 18
4	Sam Schmakel	2433
10	Jonathan Kogan	2247
40T	Duncan Shepherd	2058
50	Chengliang Luo	2032
61	Joe Fennessey	2001
94	David Paykin	1883
Girls Under 21
40	Penny Xu (17)	1966
68	Shreya Mangalam (11)	1818
69	Miranda Liu (12)	1819
85T	Shayna Provine (14)	1782
89	Marissa Li (11)	1776
Girls Under 16
34	Shreya Mangalam (11)	1822
35	Miranda Liu (12)	1819
47	Shayna Provine (14)	1782
50	Marissa Li (11)	1776
Girls Under 13
11	Shreya Mangalam (11)	1822
12	Miranda Liu (12)	1819
16	Marissa Li (11)	1776