Illinois continues to host 11 18-year olds in the top 100 nationwide, whereas statistically we'd expect to have only four.

For the first time, Illinois has six females among the top 100 Under 21 with three above 1900.

Illinois is proud to host six top ten players in the country including #4 18-year old Sam Schmakel, #5 12-year old David Peng, #5 10-year old Aydin Turgut, #6 13-year old Jacob Furfine, #7 U13 Girl Marissa Li and #9 (tie) 15-year old George Li.

Akhil Kalghatgi rose above 2000 once again and Nicholas Bartochowski smashed the 2K barrier for the first time, climbing to 2043!

That gives Illinois 15 junior Experts along with six junior Masters (or better).

High improvers this month included Eddie Zhang up 85 rating points and Alex Zhao up 83. 

Also making strong showings were Nicholas Bartochowski up 68, Shreya Mangalam up 64, Vrishank Ramnath up 57, Akhil Kalghatgi up 55, and Bradley Guan up 50.

Also bumping their ratings were Jacob Furfine (38), Jimi Akintonde (37), Arthur Xu (25), Jonathan Hrach (24), and Max Zinski (22).

57 Illinois juniors appear on one or more of these May lists, 21 of whom appear among the top 35 of their respective list.

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

 

May 2015 Top 100 Youth

US RankNameRating
Age 7 and under
16 Dimitar Mardov (age 6) 1411
25 Alex Zhao 1336
54 John Bielobradek 1148
77 William Wang 1066
92 David Yong 1028
Age 8
19 Arthur Xu 1711
24 Aaron Gan 1692
60 Vrishank Ramnath 1434
84 Eduard Danilyan 1315
Age 9
20T Patrick Rao 1695
75 David Zimmermann 1457
Age 10
5 Aydin Turgut 2042
41 Stefan Musikic 1828
51 Adam Bareket 1767
80 Brian Gong 1671
Age 11
23 Ricky Wang 1952
26T Jason Daniels 1920
49 Siddharth Acharya 1801
59 Advaith Prabu 1784
93 Aidan Carey 1679
Age 12
5 David Peng 2283
38 Marissa Li 1938
52 Edward Zhang 1856
65 Shreya Mangalam 1828
100 Tom Bareket 1754
Age 13
6 Jacob Furfine 2244
23 Vincent Do 2058
24T Hanson Hao 2054
28 Akhil Kalghatgi 2031
38T Nikhil Kalghatgi 1986
58 Miranda Liu 1908
Age 14
16 Alex Bian 2220
42 Matthew Stevens 2087
47 Daniel Bronfeyn 2061
59T Jack Curcio 2023
91 Rishi Narayanan 1919
Age 15
9T Zhaozhi (George) Li 2300
42 Anshul Adve 2110
60 Nicolas Bartochowski 2043
93 Andrew Fei 1926
Age 16
53 Jonathan Hrach 2050
56 Spencer Lehmann 2036
74 Philip Parker-Turner 1963
Age 17
52T Bradley Guan 2099
Age 18
4 Sam Schmakel 2426
24 Max Zinski 2139
27 Nate Kranjc 2117
38 Timothy Zhou 2076
44 Gavin McClanahan 2044
67 Jimi Akintonde 1972
70 Penny Xu 1966
73 Minkee Lee 1959
79 Eli Goering 1945
89 Mark Reed 1906
92 Aswath Bommannan 1891
Girls Under 21
42 Penny Xu (18) 1966
46T Marissa Li (12) 1938
57 Miranda Liu (13) 1908
84 Shreya Mangalam (11) 1828
89 Caeley Harihara (18) 1810
95 Shayna Provine (15) 1794
Girls Under 16
19 Marissa Li (12) 1938
25 Miranda Liu (13) 1908
41 Shreya Mangalam (12) 1828
50 Shayna Provine (15) 1794
Girls Under 13
7 Marissa Li (12) 1938
12 Shreya Mangalam (12) 1828