Toby Ching and Parker Sorenson had the largest ratings bumps of any Illinois players in August.
Toby raised his rating 335 points to 821. Parker upped his rating 317 points.
Toby did very well in the "Oh My's" section of the Berkeley Summer Camp tournament in Tampa Bay, FL at the end of July. Toby came in second place out of 10 participants, with 4.0/5. His only loss was to section winner, Wolfe Hudepohl, a 1200-player from Florida.
Parker tied for first in the U1000 section at the August 14 Knights Quest, going four-for-four. All five of Parker's rated events have been Knights Quest tournaments.
Jack Heller (+251) and Elton Huang (+222) also showed strong gains.
24 others had increases greater than 100 points!
| USCF Ratings | |||
| Name | Sept | Aug | Difference |
| TOBY CHING | 821 | 486 | 335 |
| PARKER SORENSON | 892 | 575 | 317 |
| JACK HELLER | 1365 | 1114 | 251 |
| ELTON HUANG | 323 | 101 | 222 |
| ADVAIT VIJAY | 1233 | 1042 | 191 |
| DONALD EGAN III | 1050 | 860 | 190 |
| NOLAN LUIS FLETES | 673 | 483 | 190 |
| SRIHAS RAO | 1011 | 825 | 186 |
| NISHA SALIAN | 941 | 768 | 173 |
| AKIVA TOKARSKIY | 871 | 706 | 165 |
| TIMOTHY IAN LIU | 625 | 467 | 158 |
| DERRICK RED | 1263 | 1106 | 157 |
| JACOB PLOTNICK | 839 | 693 | 146 |
| SARAH TOKARSKIY | 550 | 409 | 141 |
| LOHIT BHATNAGAR | 798 | 658 | 140 |
| JOHN FRAWLEY | 1202 | 1066 | 136 |
| AYA BAREKET | 331 | 197 | 134 |
| ANDREY NOVIKOV | 1203 | 1069 | 134 |
| KIERAN CASSIDY | 711 | 577 | 134 |
| ALEXANDER IVASCU | 350 | 224 | 126 |
| SRIKANTH MADUGULA | 1711 | 1586 | 125 |
| PHILIP MCCULLY | 1381 | 1259 | 122 |
| NICHOLAS ALLISON | 1446 | 1326 | 120 |
| BENJAMIN MCKENDALL | 498 | 380 | 118 |
| YIZHANG CHEN | 923 | 805 | 118 |
| HUDSON LUTFIYYA | 719 | 608 | 111 |
| ADAM LONN | 1670 | 1561 | 109 |
| DAVID ZIMMERMANN | 1505 | 1400 | 105 |
| GEORGIA WOLF | 1406 | 1302 | 104 |