The month of May marks the highest number of girls from our state ranking in the US Top 100 since the start of the pandemic, and Illinois is proud to have a representative in the “Age 7 and Under” category again: Devaanshi Bothe, who joins her older sister Nysa. They form the third pair of sisters currently featured on these prestigious lists, Angela and Emily Hu from Naperville, and Enkhjin and Anujin Namuunbayar from Chicago being the other two.

A shout-out to Aria, Shreya, Maggie, Ria, Saanvi, Sarah, Linda, Shakira, Trechelle, Mehak, Imani and others who recently played in the ICA’s Youth Invitational. Many did well, but the results are not yet included here.

Congratulations to all, and good luck next week if you are planning to play in the Chicago Open!

The lists compiled by US Chess are based on regular ratings achieved and processed by the third Wednesday of the previous month, in this case April 21, 2021. Only current US Chess members with established ratings and ratings activity in the last year are shown.

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)                          April ’21 Cutoff 

Age 7 and Under    
31 Bothe, Devaanshi (17073438) 229
     
Age 8    
28 Lee, Olivia (16643743) 815
70 Berkey, Rebekah (16585623) 476
     
Age 9    
20 Jiandani, Mehak S (16108634) 997
53 Varadan, Vijayalakshmi (16801573) 725
90 Ranjan, Nysa (16761560) 533
     
Age 10    
37 Hu, Angela (16747812) 1077
53 Doddi, Sukhi (15850503) 953
85 Bothe, Nysa (17073423) 814
     
Age 11    
7 Prakash, Nandini (16085871) 1717
27 Pham, Linda (15464538) 1375
66 Gansukh, Megan (16231843) 1054
     
Age 12    
14 Raj, Ria (15844590) 1630
60 Namuunbayar, Enkhjin (15863824) 1217
65 Erdenebileg, Oyumaa (16243234) 1177
77 Saravanan, Shanthini (16213261) 1093
85 Girish, Niyathi (16221570) 1054
     
Age 13    
22 Adusumalli, Saanvi (15412194) 1649
32 Zhao, Sophia Ziyan (16763001) 1510
35 Salian, Nisha (15767306) 1493
39 Lee, Merrill (15703571) 1439
43 Musku, Himani (15932133) 1401
73 Hong, Sophie (15947555) 1189
81 Liu, Catherine (15277304) 1143
88 Swan, Josephine Grace (15352778) 1107
94 Hu, Emily (16385785) 1083
100 Zheng, Kaylee (16232261) 1056
     
Age 14    
2 Wisniowski, Natalie (15702390) 2006
28 Oberai, Anisha (15794814) 1516
71 Namuunbayar, Anujin (15863872) 1157
     
Age 15    
16 Luster, Shakira (15641127) 1724
30 Lin, Sarah (15376582) 1565
59 Williams, Trechelle (15637011) 1253
62 Nadkarni, Anusha (14789160) 1219
78 Hill, Imani (16214855) 1095
     
Age 16    
11 Yan, Ashley (14957435) 1912
30 Tsyganova, Margarita (15922341) 1630
44 Rodriguez, Layla (15360516) 1381
67 Maiewski, Isabela (15151805) 1009
70 Varadharajan, Saigeetha (16773343) 965
86 Kuricheti, Umika (14579770) 822
91 Ananthakrishnan, Aparnaa (16253335) 634
     
Age 17    
4 Hoesley, Aria (14631046) 2091
21 Shklover, Diana (14672010) 1527
24 Grandy, Sarah Ruth (14279452) 1446
35 Brahin, Lizzy (15698350) 1264
62 Schwegel, Bernadette Olivia (15128161) 871
     
Age 18    
9 Mangalam, Shreya (14385521) 2132
27 Phillips, Rebecca (16628621) 1388
36 Bates, Jade (15332430) 1120