Dimitar Mardov is the number two junior in the US aged 7-and-under as of the May 2016 ratings lists!

Aren Emrikian is ranked 20th in that age group... but is also the fourth-ranked six-year old in the US.

Illinois' two other top 10 players are David Peng, sixth in Age 13, and Jacob Furfine, seventh in Age 14.

The complete table of all 48 Top 100's is below the jump.

George Li (Age 16) and Aydin Turgut (Age 11) both rank 11th in their respective age group.

Illinois continues to host 21 junior Experts and Masters. 

Newcomers to the lists this month include 7-year olds Aaron Rugg and Ryan Kong, 8-year old David Chen and 9-year old William Cahill.

Games submitted prior to April 20 were included in the May lists.

 Rank 
 Name
Rating
 
Age 7 and Under
2 Mardov, Dimitar 1667
20 Emrikian, Aren (Age 6) 1410
49 Rugg, Aaron 1220
67 Kong, Ryan 1131
Age 8
14 Yong, David 1644
33 Zhao, Alex 1492
37 Wang, William 1459
95 Chen, David Baokang 1235
Age 9
23 Xu, Arthur Zihan 1829
45 Gan, Aaron X 1688
91 Cahill, William 1449
Age 10
21 Rao, Patrick 1858
Age 11
11 Turgut, Aydin 2088
53 Zheng, Peter 1864
63 Bareket, Adam 1819
100 Gong, Brian 1720
Age 12
21 Wang, Ricky 2039
22 Daniels, Jason 2037
42 Acharya, Siddharth 1917
48 Carey, Aidan 1873
Age 13
6 Peng, David Tianjian 2344
43 Bareket, Tom 1982
52 Mangalam, Shreya 1960
62 Li, Marissa 1931
88 Zhang, Edward 1867
89 Ho, Kevin 1866
93 Ganesan, Ishaar 1843
Age 14
7 Furfine, Jacob 2295
31 Do, Vincent 2093
32 Hao, Hanson 2089
36 Kalghatgi, Akhil 2073
47 Kalghatgi, Nikhil 2044
87 Liu, Miranda 1901
90 Rai, Tej 1897
Age 15
16 Bian, Alex 2249
34 Bronfeyn, Daniel 2128
38 Stevens, Matthew 2124
62 Narayanan, Rishi 2045
67 Curcio, Jack Thomas 2028
Age 16
11 Li, Zhaozhi 2308
39 Adve, Anshul 2165
47 Bartochowski, Nicholas 2140
Age 17
31 Hrach, Jonathan 2174
35 Lehmann, Spencer 2148
53 Holecek, Zachary 2057
80 Denby, Caleb Sean 1986
Age 18
32 Guan, Bradley 2147
90 Holzmueller, Nathan 1961