For the first time since Penny Xu left the national Top 100 lists, Illinois has a female junior rated above 1900, thanks to Miranda Liu. At 13, Miranda is already among the top two dozen American females under Age 16 and the fifth-ranked 13-year old girl in the US.

Re-entering the ranks of the national Top 100 lists this month were 6-year old Alex Zhao and 10-year old Aiden Carey.

Posting the highest rating enhancements from the September to October lists were seven-year olds Arthur Xu (141) and Vrishank Ramnath (116). Also showing strong improvements were Miranda Liu (76), George Li (72), Edward Zhang (71), Stefan Musikic (64), and Rishi Narayanan (57).

13-year old Jacob Furfine upped his USCF rating 36 points to 2113. Entering 2013, Jacob's rating was a modest 1218. 11-year old Tom Bareket saw his rating rise 33 points this month, to 1715. At the start of 2013, Tom's rating was a provisional 773. So both Jacob and Tom have raised their USCF ratings almost 1000 points in less than two years.

Jacob leapfrogged Matthew Stevens to become the top-rated 13-year old in Illinois. George Li did the same to Alex Bian for Illinois 14-year olds. All other age group leaders in Illinois remained the same.

Happy Birthday to national Top 100's Timothy Zhou, Jimi Akintonde, Ricky Wang, and Daniel Bronfeyn.

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

 

October 2014 Top 100 Youth

US RankNameRating
Age 7 and under
15 Arthur Xu 1463
21T Vrishank Ramnath 1380
44T Dimitar Mardov (age 6) 1201
74 Alex Zhao (age 6) 1095
80 Dhruv Malladi 1069
Age 8
17 Aaron Gan 1641
Age 9
13** Martin Stukan 1886
20T Stefan Musikic 1768
50 Adam Bareket 1562
51 David Zimmermann 1560
64 Patrick Rao 1519
Age 10
4 Aydin Turgut 2042
43 Advaith Prabu 1746
71 Brian Gong 1659
74 Siddharth Acharya 1651
96T Aiden Carey 1614
Age 11
2 David Peng 2265
29 Jason Daniels 1925
30 Ricky Wang 1920
40T Edward Zhang 1859
57 Shreya Mangalam 1784
85 Tom Bareket 1715
Age 12
29 Vincent Do 2036
51 Tej Rai 1885
61T Marissa Li 1833
90 Ishaar Ganesan 1759
Age 13
18 Jacob Furfine 2113
23 Matthew Stevens 2093
40 Akhil Kalghatgi 1985
42 Hanson Hao 1978
62T Jonathan Tan 1924
68 Miranda Liu 1912
74T Nikil Kalghatgi 1900
76 Rishi Narayanan 1898
Age 14
17 Zhaozhi (George) Li 2199
19T Alex Bian 2182
37T Anshul Adve 2110
64 Daniel Bronfeyn 1993
65T Jack Curcio 1988
88T Nicholas Bartochowski 1910
96 Andrew Fei 1888
Age 15
36 Spencer Lehmann 2101
45 Zachary Holecek 2059
Age 16
64 Jonathan Hrach 2026
Age 17
32 Nate Kranjc 2174
37 Max Zinski 2139
55T Gavin McClanahan 2072
95T Bradley Guan 1948
Age 18
4 Sam Schmakel 2425
11 Jonathan Kogan 2242
27 Duncan Shepherd 2091
47 Joe Fennessey 2033
55 Timothy Zhou 2007
78 Jimi Akintonde 1924
87 Arjun Nandy 1896
Girls Under 21
51 Miranda Liu (13) 1912
73T Marissa Li (12) 1833
88 Shreya Mangalam (11) 1784
91 Caeley Harihara (17) 1774
Girls Under 16
24 Miranda Liu (12) 1912
41T Marissa Li (12) 1833
53 Shreya Mangalam (11) 1784
71 Shayna Provine (14) 1729
Girls Under 13
10 Marissa Li (12) 1833
18 Shreya Mangalam (11) 1784
86T Aria Hoesley (10) 1366