While a team of statisticians and auditors are pouring over the official US Chess ratings to determine eligibility for the 2018-2019 Classes of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars, the national organization has been nice enough to post the June official ratings.

49 Ilinois juniors are ranked in the top 100 of their respective age group nationwide, with seven in the top 10.

Raj Chennareddy remains number one among US 7 & unders and Dimitar Mardov stays at number two for Age 9.

Raj is more than 150 rating points higher than his number two -- while Dimitar is within 100 points of the New Jersey master currently rated number one in his age group.

Dimitar is one of 23 Illinois juniors rated 2000 or higher, with 2200 in sight.

Aydin Turgut remains Illinois' youngest master at age 13.

Elbert Fang has joined the lists for the first time -- and his rating has jumped sizably since then!  Elbert's rating rose over 400 points from the K-1 section appearance at the Illinois K-8 Championships (March) to his post-performance rating at Peoria Academy's Spring Scholastic (in May)!

Ekansh Mehotra, Illinois' second-highest rated nine-year-old, had the largest ratings jump of anyone on the June lists -- rising 111 points to 1603.

Ratings compilations include submissions through May 16, so Chicago Open results -- and tournaments from early June -- will not factor in until July.

The WJS and Rising Star classes for the coming year should be announced within weeks.  If you think your child might qualify (qualifications are here) and they are not already part of the program,  contact wjs@il-chess.org before July 1.  Include name, USCF number, and grade for 2018-19.

 

Rank   Name Rating
       
Ages 7 & Under
1   Chennareddy, Yuvraj Rudra (15944053) 1818
97   Fang, Elbert (16396413) 989
       
Age 8
4   Emrikian, Aren C (15766785) 1914
20   Gronski, Gabriel W (16268077) 1603
31   Shetty, Anshul P (15752957) 1537
83   Prakash, Nandini (16085871) 1332
92   Wicks, Colin Robert (16090713) 1300
96   Bayyarapu, Mohit Sreejan (15582120) 1292
       
Age 9
2   Mardov, Dimitar (15205818) 2115
52   Mehrotra, Ekansh (15991103) 1603
       
Age 10
28   Yong, David (15273720) 1817
33   Wang, William (15270976) 1798
38   Zhao, Alex (15335115) 1781
75   Malladi, Sadkrith (15797710) 1649
80   Elgat, Adam (15552450) 1638
       
Age 11
19   Xu, Arthur (14968896) 2043
52   Kaplan, Avi Harrison (15263943) 1873
       
Age 12
52   Rao, Patrick (14855075) 1888
       
Age 13
6   Turgut, Aydin (14284734) 2268
51   Reddy, Shreyas (15276866) 2002
65   Ladan, Nicholas John (15092641) 1952
93   Bareket, Adam (14949325) 1884
       
Age 14
27   Wang, Ricky (14403974) 2155
70   Li, Si (Roger) (14231898) 1957
77   Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 1945
       
Age 15
4   Peng, David Tianjian (14195454) 2461
42   Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) 2103
48   Li, Marissa (14468490) 2077
63   Ganesan, Ishaar Perumal (14072830) 2003
66   Zhang, Edward (14685367) 1995
67   Bareket, Tom (14949310) 1990
94   Ho, Kevin (14701285) 1935
       
Age 16
9   Furfine, Jacob (13089315) 2379
20   Kalghatgi, Akhil (13797215) 2233
27   Kalghatgi, Nikhil (13797221) 2190
28   Do, Vincent (13666696) 2184
76   Liu, Miranda (14042343) 2017
99   Venkat, Abhyudhaya (14519152) 1972
       
Age 17
7   Bian, Alex (13257335) 2411
19   Stevens, Matthew James (13788934) 2261
42   Bronfeyn, Daniel (13720325) 2175
53   Curcio, Jack Thomas (13451367) 2121
91   Narayanan, Rishi T (13949428) 1988
       
Age 18
4   Li, Zhaozhi (13646954) 2476
30   Adve, Anshul (13296020) 2213
37   Bartochowski, Nicholas J (13216472) 2151
66   Fei, Andrew Yueyang (14064411) 2020
67   Starkman, Eric Chandler (14556452) 2019
80   Wei, James (13577813) 1975