Illinois Youth in USCF Top 100 as of February 2015

Arthur Xu moved up one notch to become the second highest-rated seven and under player in America, joining 11 year-old David Peng with that distinction. 18-year old Sam Schmakel continues as the third highest 18-year old in the US. Marissa Li is the seventh-rated female under age 13, Aydin Turgut is eighth among 10 year-olds, and Jacob Furfine is tied for 9th among American 13 year olds.

Congratulations to Jack Curcio for hitting 2000 giving Illinois 21 junior experts and masters.

Sadly, the 19th birthdays of Duncan Shepherd and Joe Fennessey, both experts and long-time members of these top 100 lists, means the state total actually drops by one. We also bid so long to Edgar Talayko, a Class A player, who only recently joined the lists.

Also celebrating birthdays as of the February lists were Tom Bareket, Vincent Do, Jonathan Tan, George Li, Anshul Adve, Spencer Lehmann, Gavin McClanahan, and Eli Goering.

Posting the highest ratings increments this month were Dimitar Mardov (90), Toby Yang (83), Marissa Li (75), Patrick Rao (50), Aaron Gan (46) and Alex Zhao (35).

Joining the lists for the first time was 18-year old Aswath Bommannan. Rejoining the lists were Aidan Carey, Rishi Narayanan, and Ian Gilchrist.

January 15th was the game cut-off date for this ratings compilation.

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

Feburary 2015 Top 100 Youth

US RankNameRating
Age 7 and under
2 Arthur Xu 1692
15 Dimitar Mardov (age 6) 1439
28 Vrishank Ramnath 1334
35 Alex Zhao 1244
52 Dhruv Malladi 1167
Age 8
13 Aaron Gan 1775
69 Toby Yang 1324
Age 9
12** Martin Stukan 1886
35 Patrick Rao 1635
49 David Zimmermann 1560
Age 10
8 Aydin Turgut 2016
43 Stefan Musikic 1781
44 Brian Gong 1769
76 Adam Bareket 1678
Age 11
2 David Peng 2270
30 Ricky Wang 1904
32 Jason Daniels 1894
68 Advaith Prabu 1762
72 Shreya Mangalam 1755
73 Edward Zhang 1746
78T Siddharth Acharya 1739
91 Jayadeep Boya 1696
100 Aidan Carey 1671
Age 12
42 Marissa Li 1960
58T Tom Bareket 1825
73 Ishaar Ganesan 1796
Age 13
13 Jacob Furfine 2189
26 Matthew Stevens 2083
30 Vincent Do 2063
36 Hanson Hao 2024
37 Akhil Kalghatgi 2020
57 Nikhil Kalghatgi 1950
70 Miranda Liu 1908
Age 14
21 Alex Bian 2206
56T Daniel Bronfeyn 2022
63 Jack Curcio 2000
79 Nicolas Bartochowski 1944
84T Andrew Fei 1926
92 Rishi Narayanan 1916
94 Jonathan Tan 1912
Age 15
15T Zhaozhi (George) Li 2210
41 Anshul Adve 2110
100 Ian Gilchrist 1867
Age 16
54T Spencer Lehmann 2068
57 Zachary Holecek 2059
66 Jonathan Hrach 2026
Age 17
77T Bradley Guan 2033
Age 18
3 Sam Schmakel 2419
16T Nate Kranjc 2159
18 Max Zinski 2156
31 Gavin McClanahan 2072
50 Timothy Zhou 2007
61 Eli Goering 1945
66 Jimi Akintonde 1935
79 Minkee Lee 1903
87 Aswath Bommannan 1873
Girls Under 21
42 Marissa Li (12) 1960
57 Miranda Liu (13) 1908
97T Caeley Harihara (17) 1768
Girls Under 16
20 Marissa Li (12) 1960
28 Miranda Liu (13) 1908
57 Shreya Mangalam (11) 1763
60T Shayna Provine (14) 1755
Girls Under 13
7 Marissa Li (12) 1885
23T Shreya Mangalam (11) 1755
64 Aria Hoesley (11) 1475