Top 100 USA Youth -- August 2015

As of August, Illinois now proudly hosts an amazing four 18-and-under Masters and 18 junior Experts. 

Eight additional juniors have achieved ratings above 1950 in the current compilation so no doubt the above elites will soon have company.

15-year olds George Li (2294) Alex Bian (2220), 14-year old Jacob Furfine (2248) and 12-year old David Peng (2230) are the top-rated Illinois juniors on the current lists. Despite a multi-year hiatus from regular-rated chess, Penny Xu has returned to her perch as the top-rated Illinois female junior due to a slight ratings drop from others.

Seven juniors are in the top 10 of their respective age group: Alex Zhao (9th among 7 and unders), Arthur Xu (10th among 8 year olds), Aydin Turgut (5th among 10 year olds), David Peng (3rd among 12 year olds), Jacob Furfine (8th among 14 year olds), George Li (10th among 15 year olds) and Shreya Mangalam (6th among Girls Under 13).

 August 2015 Top 100 Youth

US RankNameRating
Age 7 and under
9 Alex Zhao 1531
12 Dimitar Mardov 1503
38 David Yong 1234
55 John Bielobradek 1148
86T William Wang 1045
Age 8
21 Arthur Xu 1770
60T Vrishank Ramnath 1407
80 Eduard Danilyan 1305
83 Avi Kaplan 1265
Age 9
24 Aaron Gan 1718
88T Toby Yang 1463
Age 10
4 Aydin Turgut 2076
33 Stefan Musikic 1793
41T Adam Bareket 1735
28 Patrick Rao 1710
84T Peter Zheng 1651
Age 11
15 Ricky Wang 2013
46T Advaith Prabu 1829
60 Aidan Carey 1760
71 Brian Gong 1740
84T Siddharth Acharya 1721
86T Neel Jay 1718
91 Fred Yuan 1697
Age 12
3 David Peng 2230
37T Jason Daniels 1952
49 Edward Zhang 1903
52 Shreya Mangalam 1887
58 Tom Bareket 1863
Age 13
31 Hanson Hao 2044
27 Vincent Do 2031
64 Miranda Liu 1934
27 Marissa Li 1912
74T Tej Rai 1874
Age 14
10 Jacob Furfine 2244
41 Matthew Stevens 2082
45 Daniel Bronfeyn 2065
30 Akhil Kalghatgi 2040
77T Rishi Narayanan 1957
40 Nikhil Kalghatgi 1994
Age 15
8 Zhaozhi (George) Li 2319
14 Alex Bian 2220
43 Anshul Adve 2110
54 Jack Curcio 2023
64T Nicolas Bartochowski 2009
86 Andrew Fei 1936
Age 16
56T Spencer Lehmann 2036
49 Zachary Holecek 2059
77 Philip Parker-Turner 1963
Age 17
67T Jonathan Hrach 2065
Age 18
19 Nate Kranjc 2163
21 Max Zinski 2141
36 Bradley Guan 2090
40 Timothy Zhou 2080
47 Gavin McClanahan 2044
77 Jimi Akintonde 1972
80 Eli Goering 1967
81 Penny Xu 1966
83 Minkee Lee 1959
93 Aswath Bommannan 1928
99T Mark Reed 1910
Girls Under 21
42 Penny Xu (18) 1966
53 Miranda Liu (13) 1934
58 Marissa Li (13) 1912
65 Shreya Mangalam (12) 1887
92 Shayna Provine (15) 1798
Girls Under 16
21 Miranda Liu (13) 1934
24 Marissa Li (13) 1912
27 Shreya Mangalam (12) 1887
46 Shayna Provine (15) 1798
Girls Under 13
6 Shreya Mangalam (12) 1850
60T Aria Hoesley (11) 1491
94 Ashley Yan (11) 1372