While Massachusetts may be the only state with two top-rated players in their respective age group, Illinois is one of only four states with three among the top two.

Thanks to Aydin Turgut (age 9), David Peng (age 10) and Adarsh Jayakumar (age 18), all ranked second in their particular age classification, the Land of Lincoln joins New York, California and Texas with that distinction this month.

New class levels were achieved at the Midwest Class by Joe Fennessey (Expert), Andrew Fei (Class A), and Stefan Musikic (Class B). Jason Daniels also achieved Class A status due to his second category titling at the 2013 Hobbit Classic.

Sizeable rating advances were made by Andrew (96 points), Stefan (92 points), Joe (78 points), Edward Zhang (75 points), and Hanson Hao (74 points). Adam Bareket, Shreya Mangalam and Jason also jumped more than 50 rating points each.

Aged 18 years or younger, Illinois continues to field three masters, Adarsh, Sam Schmakel, and Jonathan Kogan, along with 12 experts.

Nathan Kranjc leap-frogged two others to become the top-rated 16 year old in the state. All other Illinois top-rateds remained the same from the October lists.

For the first time in recent memory, no new names entered these top 100 lists.

According to USCF specifications, ratings as of October 16 were used for this report and the top 100 lists were published the week of November 18. Due to extensive re-rates of the Midwest Class, not all numbers will match up.

November Top 100 Youth

US Rank	Name	Rating
Age 7 and under
30T	Aaron Gan	1336
83	Sam Fayn	1037
Age 8
21	Stefan Musikic	1609
67	Adam Bareket	1340
82	David Zimmermann	1276
Age 9
2	Aydin Turgut	1942
76	Advaith Prabu	1487
88	Brian Gong	1445
Age 10
2	David Peng	2143
24T	Jason Daniels	1837
49	Shreya Mangalam	1692
56	Edward Zhang	1661
58	Ricky Wang	1656
Age 11
19	Vincent Do	2018
72	Marissa Li	1690
74	Tej Rai	1687
Age 12
22	Matthew Stevens	2015
27	Akhil Kalghatgi	1977
33	Hanson Hao	1946
69	Jonathan Tan	1853
53	Nikhil Kalghatgi	1816
78	Miranda Liu	1775
85	Rishi Narayanan	1751
Age 13
21T	Zhaozhi Li	2097
26	Alex Bian	2086
42	Anshul Adve	1998
56T	Daniel Bronfeyn	1950
60	Jack Curcio	1935
72	Andrew Fei	1888
75T	James Wei	1874
Age 14
32T	Zachary Holecek	2048
54T	Spencer Lehmann	1969
Age 15
80	Jonathan Hrach	1900
Age 16
37T	Nathan Kranjc	2091
43T	Max Zinski	2075
46T	Gavin McClanahan	2072
75	Penny Xu	1966
85	Eli Goering	1935
Age 17
5	Sam Schmakel	2381
10	Jonathan Kogan	2271
44	Joe Fennessey	2033
73	Duncan Shepherd	1958
77	Timothy Zhou	1946
Age 18
2	Adarsh Jayakumar	2386
35	Robert Moskwa	2087
49	Chengliang Luo	2032
74T	Charles Swan	1933
76	David Korobov	1928
88	David Paykin	1883
Girls Under 16
50	Miranda Liu (12)	1775
60	Shayna Provine (13)	1717
62	Shreya Mangalam (10)	1692
63	Marissa Li (11)	1690
Girls Under 13
15	Miranda Liu (12)	1775
21	Shreya Mangalam (10)	1692
22	Marissa Li (11)	1690

Illinois continues to field three young ladies in the top 25 under age 13. Of the top 25, Texas hosts six and California is home to five, including the top two, a pair of 2100's. Virginia also claims a trio of the top 25 U13 females, including numbers three and four, both experts.