The Illinois girls who made the most recent Top 100 Lists for Girls are listed below. These lists are based on ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the prior month, in this case February 19, 2020, and do not yet include rating changes following the US Amateur Team North.

A big shoutout to WCM Natalie Wisniowski, who made expert, gaining almost 60 points with her two wins over 2100-rated opponents at the CCC Jane Addams tournament. She now sits at third place for girls age 13, behind Rianne Ke and Rochelle Wu, both from California. The same tournament helped Sruthi Bharath Kumar cross back into 1700 territory, earning her rank 13 in the same age group.

Happy belated birthday and congrats on the great tournament performance to Angela Hu from Naperville, who went from 1044 to 1147, and to Rebecca Phillips, who posted a 50+ rating improvement.

The past month also showed excellent rating gains by Mythreyi Govindarajan (from 682 to 815, rank 36) and Sophia Zhao (from 1371 to 1496, rank 40), a few reappearances on the list as well as three new additions: 7-year old Rebekah Berkey, and 8-year old Suhana Sharad, and 18-year old Neelotpala Nerella.

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)            February 2020 Cutoff

Age 7 and Under    
27 Lee, Olivia (16643743) 875
36 Govindarajan, Mythreyi (16801573) 815
96 Berkey, Rebekah (16585623) 476
     
Age 8    
26 Jiandani, Mehak S (16108634) 955
68 Madugula, Chaitra (16587196) 764
87 Sharad, Suhana (16943553) 634
     
Age 9    
4 Prakash, Nandini (16085871) 1771
36 Hu, Angela (16747812) 1147
75 Zheng, Joyce J (16239154) 952
95 Doddi, Sukhi (15850503) 870
     
Age 10    
29 Pham, Linda (15464538) 1385
71 Girish, Niyathi (16221570) 1082
94 Gansukh, Megan (16231843) 963
     
Age 11    
16 Raj, Ria (15844590) 1610
69 Namuunbayar, Enkhjin (15863824) 1219
78 Erdenebileg, Oyumaa (16243234) 1177
96 Hu, Emily (16385785) 1108
     
Age 12    
24 Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) 1606
40 Zhao, Sophia Ziyan (16763001) 1496
46 Musku, Himani (15932133) 1445
47 Lee, Merrill (15703571) 1439
86 Hong, Sophie (15947555) 1189
93 Liu, Catherine (15277304) 1143
     
Age 13    
3 Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) 2006
13 Kumar, Sruthi Bharath (15879904) 1746
20 Luster, Shakira (15641127) 1625
33 Oberai, Anisha (15794814) 1534
86 Namuunbayar, Anujin (15863872) 1186
     
Age 14    
24 Lin, Sarah (15376582) 1600
25 Tsyganova, Margarita (15922341) 1596
53 Pashyan, Stella (15575165) 1347
77 Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) 1219
81 Han, Wenjing (15882830) 1186
95 Williams, Trechelle (15637011) 1127
     
Age 15    
8 Yan, Ashley Mei (14957435) 1963
56 Zhang, Louisa (15746981) 1417
60 Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) 1381
96 Kothari, Devanshi (14707882) 1063
     
Age 16    
4 Mangalam, Shreya (14385521) 2110
5 Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 2096
24 Shklover, Diana (14672010) 1527
32 Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) 1412
46 Brahin, Lizzy (15698350) 1268
87 Schwegel, Bernadette Olivia (15128161) 871
     
Age 17    
8 Li, Marissa (14468490) 2074
47 Phillips, Rebecca (16628621) 1270
60 Bates, Jade (15332430) 1120
65 Pankov, Michelle (14224844) 1009
     
Age 18    
37 Nerella, Neelotpala (16755702) 1054
52 Riley, Morgan V (15404544) 643