Dimitar Mardov is the number two junior in the US aged 7-and-under as of the May 2016 ratings lists!

Aren Emrikian is ranked 20th in that age group... but is also the fourth-ranked six-year old in the US.

Illinois' two other top 10 players are David Peng, sixth in Age 13, and Jacob Furfine, seventh in Age 14.

The complete table of all 48 Top 100's is below the jump.

George Li (Age 16) and Aydin Turgut (Age 11) both rank 11th in their respective age group.

Illinois continues to host 21 junior Experts and Masters. 

Newcomers to the lists this month include 7-year olds Aaron Rugg and Ryan Kong, 8-year old David Chen and 9-year old William Cahill.

Games submitted prior to April 20 were included in the May lists.

Rank	Name	Rating
Age 7 and Under
2	Mardov, Dimitar	1667
20	Emrikian, Aren (Age 6)	1410
49	Rugg, Aaron	1220
67	Kong, Ryan	1131
Age 8
14	Yong, David	1644
33	Zhao, Alex	1492
37	Wang, William	1459
95	Chen, David Baokang	1235
Age 9
23	Xu, Arthur Zihan	1829
45	Gan, Aaron X	1688
91	Cahill, William	1449
Age 10
21	Rao, Patrick	1858
Age 11
11	Turgut, Aydin	2088
53	Zheng, Peter	1864
63	Bareket, Adam	1819
100	Gong, Brian	1720
Age 12
21	Wang, Ricky	2039
22	Daniels, Jason	2037
42	Acharya, Siddharth	1917
48	Carey, Aidan	1873
Age 13
6	Peng, David Tianjian	2344
43	Bareket, Tom	1982
52	Mangalam, Shreya	1960
62	Li, Marissa	1931
88	Zhang, Edward	1867
89	Ho, Kevin	1866
93	Ganesan, Ishaar	1843
Age 14
7	Furfine, Jacob	2295
31	Do, Vincent	2093
32	Hao, Hanson	2089
36	Kalghatgi, Akhil	2073
47	Kalghatgi, Nikhil	2044
87	Liu, Miranda	1901
90	Rai, Tej	1897
Age 15
16	Bian, Alex	2249
34	Bronfeyn, Daniel	2128
38	Stevens, Matthew	2124
62	Narayanan, Rishi	2045
67	Curcio, Jack Thomas	2028
Age 16
11	Li, Zhaozhi	2308
39	Adve, Anshul	2165
47	Bartochowski, Nicholas	2140
Age 17
31	Hrach, Jonathan	2174
35	Lehmann, Spencer	2148
53	Holecek, Zachary	2057
80	Denby, Caleb Sean	1986
Age 18
32	Guan, Bradley	2147
90	Holzmueller, Nathan	1961