An amazing array of 26 Illinois juniors find themselves in the top 50 of their respective age group nationwide as the May 2017 ratings. These ratings reflect tournaments posted through the third week of April which did not yet include SuperNationals VI.

#1 in the lowest age category (7 & Under) is Aren Emrikian with Dimitar Mardov #2 in the Age 8 group. Aydin Turgut (8 in Age 12), David Peng (7 in Age 14), Jacob Furfine (10 in Age 15) and George Li (6 in Age 17) are the other Illinois top ten'ers.

New to this month's lists is Illinois K-1 Champion Anshul Shetty, coming in at #43 in the US for Age 7. The complete list is below:

           
  Ages 7 & Under
  1   Emrikian, Aren C (15766785)   1860
  43   Shetty, Anshul P (15752957)   1217
           
  Age 8
  2   Mardov, Dimitar (15205818)   1965
           
  Age 9
  18   Wang, William (15270976)   1834
  23   Zhao, Alex (15335115)   1767
  24   Yong, David (15273720)   1742
           
  Age 10
  T-15   Xu, Arthur (14968896)   1999
           
  Age 11
  28   Rao, Patrick (14855075)   1897
           
  Age 12
  8   Turgut, Aydin (14284734)   2214
           
  Age 13
  20   Wang, Ricky (14403974)   2098
  27   Daniels, Jason Scott (14107163)   2067
           
  Age 14
  7   Peng, David Tianjian (14195454)   2361
  T-35   Li, Marissa (14468490)   2119
           
  Age 15
  10   Furfine, Jacob (13089315)   2293
  27   Do, Vincent (13666696)   2170
  30   Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221)   2150
  41   Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215)   2098
           
  Age 16
  14   Bian, Alex (13257335)   2314
  30   Stevens, Matthew James (13788934)   2206
  43   Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325)   2150
  49   Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367)   2122
           
  Age 17
  6   Li, Zhaozhi (13646954)   2437
  35   Adve, Anshul (13296020)   2201
  41   Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472)   2169
           
  Age 18
  16   Lehmann, Spencer (13457744)   2283
  31   Hrach, Jonathan Matthew (14094872)   2204
           

Astute readers will note that these listings only include only the top 50 -- instead of the top 100 previously published. This is due to legal reasons which we hope to see ironed out in the near future.