Illinois currently has no female player in the ‘Age 18’ category of the US Top 100 now that Class A player Emma Wang aged out. However, our group of 12-year olds ranking high enough to make the cut has grown to eight girls.

Players of note this month include Michelle Pankov, Angela Hu and Niyathi Girish, all of whom went from a 3-digit rating to a 4-digit rating---Niyathi even to 1107, gaining close to 150 rating points and moving from 98th to 62nd position nationwide. Olivia Lee climbed ten ranks and now sits at #28 among seven-year old girls.

Congratulations to the two young ladies from our state who broke into the US Top 100 for the first time: Mythreyi Govindarajan, in the “Age 7 and Under” group, and Shivani Manimaran, who is nine and (to my knowledge) a member of the Fox Valley Chess Club.

The lists compiled by US Chess are based on ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the previous month, in this case November 20, 2019.

If you believe your daughter was inadvertently omitted from these lists, it may be due to US Chess rules regarding permission. If the player’s family cannot be contacted to confirm permission for using the name on one of these lists, the player is not listed. Contact youth@il-chess.org for assistance on connecting with US Chess.

 

US Rank                   Player (US Chess ID)                 November ’19 Cutoff

Age 7 and Under    
24 Madugula, Chaitra (16587196) 868
28 Lee, Olivia (16643743) 846
63 Govindarajan, Mythreyi (16801573) 602
     
Age 8    
38 Hu, Angela (16747812) 1004
55 Jiandani, Mehak S (16108634) 930
     
Age 9    
7 Prakash, Nandini (16085871) 1654
80 Zheng, Joyce J (16239154) 926
82 Doddi, Sukhi (15850503) 920
94 Manimaran, Shivani (16614018) 852
97 Lkhavgajav, Bolor Sarah (16235187) 843
     
Age 10    
41 Pham, Linda (15464538) 1259
62 Girish, Niyathi (16221570) 1107
68 Chennareddy, Siri (15939163) 1087
     
Age 11    
14 Raj, Ria (15844590) 1645
38 Lee, Merrill (15703571) 1424
43 Zhao, Sophia Ziyan (16763001) 1399
88 Namuunbayar, Enkhjin (15863824) 1173
     
Age 12    
26 Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) 1544
29 Oberai, Anisha (15794814) 1534
32 Salian, Nisha (15767306) 1493
39 Musku, Himani (15932133) 1409
59 Hong, Sophie (15947555) 1266
83 Namuunbayar, Anujin (15863872) 1168
86 Liu, Catherine (15277304) 1154
91 Swan, Josephine Grace (15352778) 1126
     
Age 13    
4 Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) 1942
22 Kumar, Sruthi Bharath (15879904) 1609
43 Luster, Shakira (15641127) 1463
80 Fan, Alice (14935236) 1290
     
Age 14    
26 Lin, Sarah (15376582) 1630
29 Tsyganova, Margarita (15922341) 1610
57 Pashyan, Stella (15575165) 1366
71 Zhang, Louisa (15746981) 1300
79 Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) 1219
84 Han, Wenjing (15882830) 1177
     
Age 15    
5 Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 2084
12 Yan, Ashley Mei (14957435) 1963
50 Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) 1381
91 Kothari, Devanshi (14707882) 1063
     
Age 16    
4 Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) 2102
19 Shklover, Diana (14672010) 1527
33 Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) 1412
45 Brahin, Lizzy (15698350) 1277
55 Phillips, Rebecca (16628621) 1195
     
Age 17    
9 Li, Marissa (14468490) 2074
61 Bates, Jade (15332430) 1120
67 Thadani, Lavina (14686878) 1022
68 Pankov, Michelle (14224844) 1009
94 Riley, Morgan V (15404544) 643