With ascendancy above USCF ratings of 2000 for 14-year old Anshul Adve and 15-year old Jonathan Hrach, for the first time ever, Illinois has 15 junior experts and four masters (or greater) as of the official July listings. This quota comes despite the loss of Chengliang Luo who aged out of the 18-and-under report.

With Hanson Hao at 1999 and Jacob Furfine at 1996, it's likely this strong crew will soon have some additional company.

Anshul's rating climbed 92 points while Jonathan's was up 52. Dramatic increases also came from Martin Stukan (130) and Nikhil Kalghati (138). Others with strong USCF rating enhancements this month were Marissa Li (99), Jason Daniels (71), Akhil Kalghatgi (also 71), Alex Bian (61), Max Zinski (51) and George Li (40).

Returning to the lists were Rishi Narayanan, Bryce McClanahan, Arjun Nandy, Phillip Parker-Turner, Tom Bareket and Caeley Harihara.

Ratings as of June 18 were used to develop the lists which were published by the USCF July 24.

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

July 2014 Top 100 Youth

US Rank	Name	Rating
Age 7 and under
32	Arthur Xu	1316
41	Vrishank Ramnath	1248
49T	Dimitar Mardov	1205
Age 8
12	Aaron Gan	1662
17	David Zimmermann	1645
53	Jai Mahajan	1353
79	Jayant Maheswari	1269
Age 9
3	Aydin Turgut	2034
9**	Martin Stukan	1886
41	Stefan Musikic	1670
78	Adam Bareket	1518
Age 10
23	Ricky Wang	1849
33	Jason Daniels	1797
67	Advaith Prabu	1663
Age 11
2	David Peng	2241
28T	Marissa Li	1875
45	Shreya Mangalam	1813
74T	Edward Zhang	1712
84T	Tom Bareket	1697
Age 12
21	Vincent Do	2058
27	Hanson Hao	1999
34	Akhil Kalghatgi	1951
38	Nikhil Kalghatgi	1925
69	Miranda Liu	1836
82	Tej Rai	1780
Age 13
22	Alex Bian	2151
37	Daniel Bronfeyn	2039
39	Matthew Stevens	2034
43	Jacob Furfine	1996
65	Jonathan Tan	1923
89	Rishi Narayanan	1849
Age 14
26	Zhaozhi (George) Li	2139
41	Anshul Adve	2062
49	Jack Curcio	2025
93	Andrew Fei	1864
98	Bryce Mc Clanahan	1851
Age 15
37	Spencer Lehmann	2089
46	Zachary Holecek	2059
53	Jonathan Hrach	2029
91	Phillip Parker-Turner	1903
Age 16
	None From Illinois
Age 17
17	Nate Kranjc	2216
23	Max Zinski	2193
43T	Gavin McClanahan	2072
76	Penny Xu	1966
84	Eli Goering	1945
96	Jimi Akintonde	1912
Age 18
4	Sam Schmakel	2435
12	Jonathan Kogan	2240
43	Duncan Shepherd	2042
52T	Joe Fennessey	2029
95	Arjun Nandy	1865
Girls Under 21
40	Penny Xu (17)	1966
57	Marissa Li (11)	1875
65	Miranda Liu (12)	1836
71	Shreya Mangalam (11)	1813
74	Caeley Harihara (17)	1799
91	Shayna Provine (14)	1759
Girls Under 16
28	Marissa Li (11)	1875
32	Miranda Liu (12)	1836
38	Shreya Mangalam (11)	1813
51	Shayna Provine (14)	1759
Girls Under 13
9	Marissa Li (11)	1875
12	Miranda Liu (12)	1836
14	Shreya Mangalam (11)	1813