Today marks the resumption of the publishing of a time-consuming but much-requested feature of the ICA website: a listing of the Illinois youth on the monthly top 100 lists of the US Chess Federation.

Many good players have come through these lists and enhanced their ratings over time. 48 youth managed to make one of these twelve lists this month.

The four US Chess Masters with ratings above 2200 are David Peng (Age 12), George Li (Age 16), and Jacob Furfine along with Alex Bian (both Age 15). Several other Experts (rated 2000+) are getting close to joining them.

At one time in 2015, Illinois had as many as eight 18 year olds in the top 100. This month, only Bradley Guan qualified -- although he is off at college in Pennsylvania. If only those kids would stop getting older!

Ratings used are the official April mark which takes into account rated games submitted through March 16. Players must have been active in US Chess play within the last 12 months -- and have a current US Chess membership -- or they fall off these lists. 

Since this feature was last published, US Chess has published separate lists for Girls at each age level and those have not been published here. If you would like to volunteer to do those look ups each month, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. It shouldn't take more than an hour each month.

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US Rank	Name	Rating
Ages 7 and Under
4	Dimitar Mardov	1650
10	David Yong	1526
33	Aren Emrikian (6)	1319
66	Andrew Friedman	1130
95	Julian Wang	1035
Age 8
36	Alex Zhao	1460
68	William Wang	1324
Age 9
13	Arthur Xu	1886
42	Aaron Gan	1688
87	Toby Yang	1453
100	Eduard Danilyan	1420
Age 10
27	Patrick Rao	1808
33	Peter Zheng	1761
Age 11
10	Aydin Turgut	2088
55	Adam Bareket	1831
93	Brian Gong	1712
99T	Fred Yuan	1700
Age 12
4	David Peng	2326
22	Ricky Wang	2053
26	Jason Daniels	2034
42	Shreya Mangalam	1931
45	Siddharth Acharya	1897
55	Aidan Carey	1879
57	Edward Zhang	1867
Age 13
44	Tom Bareket	1973
50	Marissa Li	1939
85	Ishaar Ganesan	1856
Age 14
6	Jacob Furfine	2291
33	Vincent Do	2079
38T	Hanson Hao	2061
40	Akhil Kalghatgi	2057
47	Nikhil Kalghatgi	2037
88	Miranda Liu	1901
91	Tej Rai	1897
Age 15
16T	Alex Bian	2241
39	Daniel Bronfeyn	2128
40	Matthew Stevens	2125
67T	Rishi Narayanan	2032
69	Jack Curcio	2028
Age 16
12	George Li	2294
40	Anshul Adve	2153
44	Nicholas Bartochowski	2140
88	Andrew Fei	1952
Age 17
35	Jonathan Hrach	2170
40	Spencer Lehmann	2141
64	Zach Holecek	2057
92	Caleb Denby	1974
Age 18
31	Bradley Guan	2149