Shakira Luster, who took 7th place with her teammates from St. Ethelreda at the 2019 K-12 Championship in Orlando, Florida, sees her hard work pay off; coached by her dad, Sedrick Prude and Tom Murphy, the 13-year-old has gained about 500 USCF rating points over the last year.

Kudos also to Louisa Zhang, age 14, who entered 1400 territory with her excellent performance at the 4th Annual Sevan Memorial Tournament. The same tourney helped Nandini Prakash get back into the 1700s. Nandini, who is only 9 years old, is the sixth best female chess player in her age group in the country.

Many Illinois girls improved their ranking over last month, including 7-year old Mythreyi Govindarajan, from 602 to 655 (new rank 58), 10-year old Linda Pham, from 1259 to 1310 (new rank 36), and 13-year old Sruthi Bharath Kumar, from 1609 to 1666 (new rank 17), to name just a few.

There was other movement too: Sukhi, Shivani and Siri dropped off the Top 100 Girls lists – hopefully just temporarily – while Oyumaa managed to be listed again. Several girls can now be found in the next higher age bracket; happy belated birthday to Chaitra, Siri, Merrill, Anujin, Aria, Louisa, and Morgan!

The lists compiled by US Chess are based on ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the previous month, in this case December 18, 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.

 

  January  
     
Age 7 and Under    
36 Lee, Olivia (16643743) 804
58 Govindarajan, Mythreyi (16801573) 655
     
Age 8    
33 Hu, Angela (16747812) 988
40 Jiandani, Mehak S (16108634) 955
61 Madugula, Chaitra (16587196) 856
     
Age 9    
6 Prakash, Nandini (16085871) 1705
82 Zheng, Joyce J (16239154) 939
99 Lkhavgajav, Bolor Sarah (16235187) 843
     
Age 10    
36 Pham, Linda (15464538) 1310
67 Girish, Niyathi (16221570) 1078
     
Age 11    
17 Raj, Ria (15844590) 1582
36 Zhao, Sophia Ziyan (16763001) 1407
80 Erdenebileg, Oyumaa (16243234) 1202
83 Namuunbayar, Enkhjin (15863824) 1190
     
Age 12    
31 Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) 1552
37 Salian, Nisha (15767306) 1493
44 Lee, Merrill (15703571) 1419
48 Musku, Himani (15932133) 1400
64 Hong, Sophie (15947555) 1266
93 Liu, Catherine (15277304) 1143
98 Swan, Josephine Grace (15352778) 1126
     
Age 13    
9 Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) 1884
17 Kumar, Sruthi Bharath (15879904) 1666
26 Luster, Shakira (15641127) 1587
79 Fan, Alice (14935236) 1290
96 Namuunbayar, Anujin (15863872) 1168
     
Age 14    
23 Lin, Sarah (15376582) 1630
31 Tsyganova, Margarita (15922341) 1565
57 Pashyan, Stella (15575165) 1348
76 Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) 1219
78 Han, Wenjing (15882830) 1186
     
Age 15    
12 Yan, Ashley Mei (14957435) 1963
52 Zhang, Louisa (15746981) 1417
55 Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) 1381
92 Kothari, Devanshi (14707882) 1063
     
Age 16    
3 Mangalam, Shreya B (14385521) 2119
6 Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 2088
20 Shklover, Diana (14672010) 1527
30 Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) 1412
43 Brahin, Lizzy (15698350) 1277
55 Phillips, Rebecca (16628621) 1195
     
Age 17    
8 Li, Marissa (14468490) 2074
61 Bates, Jade (15332430) 1120
67 Thadani, Lavina (14686878) 1022
68 Pankov, Michelle (14224844) 1009
     
Age 18    
50 Riley, Morgan V (15404544) 643