Today marks the resumption of the publishing of a time-consuming but much-requested feature of the ICA website: a listing of the Illinois youth on the monthly top 100 lists of the US Chess Federation.
Many good players have come through these lists and enhanced their ratings over time. 48 youth managed to make one of these twelve lists this month.
The four US Chess Masters with ratings above 2200 are David Peng (Age 12), George Li (Age 16), and Jacob Furfine along with Alex Bian (both Age 15). Several other Experts (rated 2000+) are getting close to joining them.
At one time in 2015, Illinois had as many as eight 18 year olds in the top 100. This month, only Bradley Guan qualified -- although he is off at college in Pennsylvania. If only those kids would stop getting older!
Ratings used are the official April mark which takes into account rated games submitted through March 16. Players must have been active in US Chess play within the last 12 months -- and have a current US Chess membership -- or they fall off these lists.
Since this feature was last published, US Chess has published separate lists for Girls at each age level and those have not been published here. If you would like to volunteer to do those look ups each month, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. It shouldn't take more than an hour each month.
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US Rank | Name | Rating |
Ages 7 and Under | ||
4 | Dimitar Mardov | 1650 |
10 | David Yong | 1526 |
33 | Aren Emrikian (6) | 1319 |
66 | Andrew Friedman | 1130 |
95 | Julian Wang | 1035 |
Age 8 | ||
36 | Alex Zhao | 1460 |
68 | William Wang | 1324 |
Age 9 | ||
13 | Arthur Xu | 1886 |
42 | Aaron Gan | 1688 |
87 | Toby Yang | 1453 |
100 | Eduard Danilyan | 1420 |
Age 10 | ||
27 | Patrick Rao | 1808 |
33 | Peter Zheng | 1761 |
Age 11 | ||
10 | Aydin Turgut | 2088 |
55 | Adam Bareket | 1831 |
93 | Brian Gong | 1712 |
99T | Fred Yuan | 1700 |
Age 12 | ||
4 | David Peng | 2326 |
22 | Ricky Wang | 2053 |
26 | Jason Daniels | 2034 |
42 | Shreya Mangalam | 1931 |
45 | Siddharth Acharya | 1897 |
55 | Aidan Carey | 1879 |
57 | Edward Zhang | 1867 |
Age 13 | ||
44 | Tom Bareket | 1973 |
50 | Marissa Li | 1939 |
85 | Ishaar Ganesan | 1856 |
Age 14 | ||
6 | Jacob Furfine | 2291 |
33 | Vincent Do | 2079 |
38T | Hanson Hao | 2061 |
40 | Akhil Kalghatgi | 2057 |
47 | Nikhil Kalghatgi | 2037 |
88 | Miranda Liu | 1901 |
91 | Tej Rai | 1897 |
Age 15 | ||
16T | Alex Bian | 2241 |
39 | Daniel Bronfeyn | 2128 |
40 | Matthew Stevens | 2125 |
67T | Rishi Narayanan | 2032 |
69 | Jack Curcio | 2028 |
Age 16 | ||
12 | George Li | 2294 |
40 | Anshul Adve | 2153 |
44 | Nicholas Bartochowski | 2140 |
88 | Andrew Fei | 1952 |
Age 17 | ||
35 | Jonathan Hrach | 2170 |
40 | Spencer Lehmann | 2141 |
64 | Zach Holecek | 2057 |
92 | Caleb Denby | 1974 |
Age 18 | ||
31 | Bradley Guan | 2149 |