The US Chess Top 100 lists for October include 46 young ladies from Illinois with nine of them ranking in the top 20.

In the “Ages 7 and Under” group, Nandini Prakash and Hili Bareket improved their ratings over last month; the same is true for Linda Pham and Enkhjin Namuunbayar, who are a year older.

With her new rating of 1080, Linda secured herself a top-25 spot among the nation's 8-year old females.

The group of top 100 girls aged 9 shrank from five juniors last month to two this month as Nisha Salian moved on to the next age bracket. Nisha increased her rating while maintaining her #23
rank. Well done!

Natalie Wisniowski, who is also a strong online blitz player, increased her rating from 1537 to 1596, which makes her the 14th best 11-year old in the country this month. Her age-group peer Sruthi Bharath Kumar reached the 1200-milestone for the first time.

Sarah Lin (age 12) managed to add 78 points to her rating since the last compilation of these lists, earning her a spot in the upper half.

Layla Rodriguez (age 13) saw similar rating improvement from 1097 to 1175.

But by far the biggest jump was posted by Chicago’s Aria Hoesley, who went from 1723 in August to 1938 in September, mostly due to her third-place finish in the Atlantic Open's U2100 section. Out of this world, Aria!! The freshly-minted Class A player has now climbed to the #4 spot in the country for girls aged 13.

Congratulations are also in order for 16-year old Emma Wang, who crossed the 1900-threshold for the first time.

The lists are based on ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the prior month, in this case September 20, 2017.

If you believe your child should be listed — and is not — it may be due to US Chess rules regarding permission. They attempt to contact the players' family to confirm permission before using the
names on the lists. If they are unable to make contact, the player is not listed. Contact youth@il-chess.org  for assistance on connecting with US Chess on these permissions.

      Oct '17
US Rank   Ages 7 and Under Rating
23   Prakash, Nandini (16085871) 885
42   Wang, Celina L (15800694) 703
80   Bareket, Hili (15773467) 493
83   Doddi, Sukhi (15850503) 481
93   Hou, Kristen (15947617) 455
       
    Age 8  
24   Pham, Linda (15464538) 1080
72   Chennareddy, Siri (15939163) 723
73   Namuunbayar, Enkhjin (15863824) 718
       
    Age 9  
29   Raj, Ria (15844590) 1235
71   Swan, Josephine Grace (15352778) 941
       
    Age 10  
23   Salian, Nisha (15767306) 1309
63   Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) 1077
       
    Age 11  
14   Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) 1596
43   Fan, Alice (14935236) 1312
59   Bharath Kumar, Sruthi (15879904) 1200
64   Jariwala, Siya Chirag (15980632) 1172
98   Pashyan, Stella (15575165) 1016
       
    Age 12  
46   Lin, Sarah (15376582) 1362
58   Tsyganova, Margarita (15922341) 1270
62   Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) 1247
76   Geiersbach, Annika (14867152) 1192
       
    Age 13  
4   Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 1938
17   Yan, Ashley Mei (14957435) 1773
69   Frieden, Nadia (14748442) 1201
72   Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) 1175
100   Cai, Sophia (14451751) 1026
       
    Age 14  
7   Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) 2048
46   Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) 1337
54   Shklover, Diana (14672010) 1272
82   Bates, Jade (15332430) 1082
84   Brahin, Lizzy (15698350) 1065
       
    Age 15  
5   Li, Marissa (14468490) 2095
65   Tang, Zhengxin-Cindy (15491716) 1076
88   Thadani, Lavina (14686878) 890
       
    Age 16  
5   Liu, Miranda (14042343) 2026
11   Wang, Emma K (13797242) 1904
32   Thatte, Shvetali V (13881457) 1519
48   Zhang, Christine (14784748) 1279
       
    Age 17  
18   Parent, Cassie (13591356) 1726
22   Provine, Shayna (14137968) 1706
24   Gani, Isha (15219798) 1630
27   Mcclanahan, Emily (13661808) 1585
       
    Age 18  
16   Simos, Bethany Michelle (13520005) 1738
34   Ross, Maya M (15690023) 1148
47   Roberson, Sydney (15410066) 764
57`   Ramirez, Jasmin (15644148) 629