A pair of Illinois teenagers earned new USCF classifications as of the November official ratings.

Newly-minted USCF Master Alex Bian, age 14, cracked the 2200-mark with a 43-point bump.

13-year old Hanson Hao finally earned his USCF Expert stripes with a 53-point jump.

Congratulations to both Alex and Hanson!

Age eventually catches up with all of us and for USCF Master Jonathan Kogan, a regular participant of these top 100 lists for years, turning 19 graduates Jonathan from these compilations. Jonathan had ranked 11th among US 18-year olds prior to his latest birthday. He continues in the top 100 list for American youth Under 21, with a 2265 USCF rating.

Shreya Mangalam (81) and Advaith Prabu (72) both earned Class A status with sizeable rating jumps. As a six year old, Dimitar Mardov raised his rating 48 points entering the top 35 in the country for the under 7 age group, ranking 31st.

Posting other high rating enhancements from the October to November lists were Adam Bareket (97), Arthur Xu (80), Aaron Gan (78), and Marissa Li (70). Tom Bareket (49), Patrick Rao (28) and Ricky Wang (27) also had good months.

Re-entering the ranks of the national Top 100 lists this month were 17-year old Eli Goering, 14-year old Nicholas Bartochowski and 10-year old Frederich Yuan.

Official November ratings reflect games submitted prior to October 15. 

 ** Represents ranking in the listing without regard to Federation.

 

November 2014 Top 100 Youth

US RankNameRating
Age 7 and under
7 Arthur Xu 1543
19 Vrishank Ramnath 1380
31 Dimitar Mardov (age 6) 1249
75 Dhruv Malladi 1069
86 Alex Zhao (age 6) 1049
Age 8
16 Aaron Gan 1719
Age 9
13** Martin Stukan 1886
24 Stefan Musikic 1739
38T Adam Bareket 1659
55 David Zimmermann 1560
57 Patrick Rao 1547
Age 10
3T Aydin Turgut 2042
24T Advaith Prabu 1818
70 Brian Gong 1666
75 Siddharth Acharya 1656
100 Frederich Yuan 1592
Age 11
2 David Peng 2255
25 Ricky Wang 1947
28 Jason Daniels 1925
39 Edward Zhang 1867
40 Shreya Mangalam 1865
66 Tom Bareket 1764
Age 12
27 Vincent Do 2046
45 Marissa Li 1903
56T Tej Rai 1837
90 Ishaar Ganesan 1765
Age 13
20 Jacob Furfine 2106
22 Matthew Stevens 2102
33 Hanson Hao 2031
37T Akhil Kalghatgi 1989
58 Jonathan Tan 1932
67T Nikil Kalghatgi 1905
67T Rishi Narayanan 1905
78 Miranda Liu 1888
Age 14
16 Alex Bian 2225
23 Zhaozhi (George) Li 2197
39T Anshul Adve 2110
67 Daniel Bronfeyn 1993
69T Jack Curcio 1988
90T Nicolas Bartochowski 1916
97T Andrew Fei 1909
Age 15
35 Spencer Lehmann 2095
43 Zachary Holecek 2059
Age 16
66 Jonathan Hrach 2026
Age 17
32 Nate Kranjc 2174
36 Max Zinski 2139
56T Gavin McClanahan 2072
78 Bradley Guan 2010
99 Eli Goering 1945
Age 18
4 Sam Schmakel 2424
23T Duncan Shepherd 2104
44 Joe Fennessey 2033
52 Timothy Zhou 2007
73 Jimi Akintonde 1924
82 Arjun Nandy 1896
Girls Under 21
50 Marissa Li (12) 1903
55 Miranda Liu (13) 1888
62T Shreya Mangalam (11) 1865
89 Caeley Harihara (17) 1774
Girls Under 16
23 Marissa Li (12) 1903
26 Miranda Liu (13) 1888
32T Shreya Mangalam (11) 1865
65 Shayna Provine (14) 1729
Girls Under 13
7 Marissa Li (12) 1903
10 Shreya Mangalam (11) 1865
87 Aria Hoesley (10) 1383