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Top Player Lists December 2008
Top Player Lists December 2008
Top Under Age 21 regardless of Country, Residence, or Federation December 2008
| 1 | Nakamura, Hikaru (12641216) | 20 | NY | USA | 2760 |
| 2 | Caruana, Fabiano (12743305) | 16 | *FOR* | ITA | 2695 |
| 3 | Yotov, Valentin L (13484812) | 20 | CA | BUL | 2620 |
| 4 | Ramirez, Alejandro (12688291) | 20 | TX | CRC | 2590 |
| 5 | Hess, Robert L (12749774) | 16 | NY | USA | 2544 |
| 6 | Robson, Ray (12847250) | 14 | FL | USA | 2531 |
| 7 | Lenderman, Alex (12787646) | 19 | NY | USA | 2511 |
| 8 | Bercys, Salvijus (12909023) | 19 | NY | USA | 2493 |
| 9 | Kaminski, Victor (14004741) | 17 | *FOR* | CAN | 2474 |
| 10 | Ludwig, Daniel (12717400) | 18 | FL | USA | 2455 |
| 11 | Schneider, Igor (12726345) | 20 | TX | USA | 2439 |
| 12 | Molner, Mackenzie S (12662506) | 20 | NJ | USA | 2428 |
| 13 | Shankland, Samuel L (12852765) | 17 | CA | USA | 2425 |
| 14 | Arnold, Marc Tyler (12770589) | 15 | NY | USA | 2424 |
| 15 | Gulamali, Kazim (12680172) | 20 | GA | USA | 2416 |
| Heimann, Mark A (12802899) | 15 | PA | USA | 2416 | |
| 17 | Bryant, John Daniel (12796667) | 16 | CA | USA | 2407 |
| 18 | Liu, Elliott Joseph Likuang (12661521) | 18 | CA | USA | 2406 |
| 19 | Banawa, Joel (12922625) | 18 | CA | USA | 2400 |
| 20 | Hungaski, Robert Andrew (12790312) | 20 | CT | USA | 2382 |
| 21 | Naroditsky, Daniel A (12892910) | 12 | CA | USA | 2379 |
| 22 | Cheng, Bindi (13474340) | 18 | *FOR* | CAN | 2371 |
| 23 | Harper, Warren Thomas (12937291) | 17 | TX | USA | 2354 |
| 24 | Critelli, James (12760801) | 18 | CT | USA | 2348 |
| 25 | Hansen, Eric (13264840) | 16 | *FOR* | CAN | 2345 |
| 26 | Yeager, Daniel A (12876648) | 17 | PA | USA | 2343 |
| 27 | Manukyan, Garush (13046895) | 20 | CA | ARM | 2342 |
| 28 | Quan, Zhe (12813916) | 18 | *FOR* | CAN | 2332 |
| 29 | Hu, Zhi-Ya (12810483) | 18 | MD | USA | 2329 |
| 30 | Zhao, Parker Bi Guang (12787319) | 14 | NY | USA | 2328 |
| 31 | Lee, Michael (12858009) | 14 | WA | USA | 2326 |
| 32 | Coleman, Teddy (12662799) | 19 | NY | USA | 2324 |
| 33 | Schwarz, Daniel Wheelock (12682225) | 19 | CA | USA | 2321 |
| 34 | Abrahamyan, Tatev (12851435) | 20 | CA | USA | 2319 |
| 35 | Melekhina, Alisa (12726115) | 17 | PA | USA | 2318 |
| 36 | Yap, Nicolas A (12786967) | 19 | CA | USA | 2315 |
| Uesugi, Shinsaku (12876570) | 17 | MD | JPN | 2315 | |
| 38 | Heimann, Alexander C (12801477) | 15 | PA | USA | 2312 |
| 39 | Ju, Evan D (12740630) | 17 | NJ | USA | 2304 |
| Corke, Anya S (12809699) | 18 | *FOR* | HKG | 2304 | |
| 41 | Parry, Matt J (12825619) | 17 | NY | USA | 2303 |
| 42 | Yang, Darwin (12945617) | 11 | TX | USA | 2299 |
| 43 | Landaw, Julian W (12661250) | 18 | CA | USA | 2296 |
| Kahn, Aaron E (12814043) | 19 | MI | USA | 2296 | |
| 45 | Enkin, Max (12694870) | 19 | MA | USA | 2294 |
| 46 | Jiang, Louie (13289038) | 14 | *FOR* | CAN | 2293 |
| 47 | Nienart, Christopher (12753619) | 18 | IL | USA | 2288 |
| 48 | Kislik, Erik A (12850976) | 20 | CA | USA | 2284 |
| 49 | Thaler, Michael (12690413) | 16 | NY | USA | 2283 |
| 50 | Ho, Matthew (12654595) | 20 | CA | USA | 2281 |
| 51 | Lu, Edward J (12813512) | 17 | VA | USA | 2277 |
| 52 | Holt, Conrad (12937909) | 15 | KS | USA | 2275 |
| 53 | Acor, Corey (12788211) | 19 | FL | USA | 2274 |
| Balasubramanian, Adithya (12932453) | 17 | VA | IND | 2274 | |
| 55 | Vedrickas, Tautvydas (13744777) | 18 | TX | LTU | 2268 |
| 56 | Chua, Alexander J (12744151) | 20 | TX | USA | 2267 |
| 57 | Hughes, Tyler B (12799460) | 17 | CO | USA | 2265 |
| 58 | Wang, Drake (12691891) | 19 | CA | USA | 2262 |
| 59 | Getz, Alec (12805454) | 15 | NY | USA | 2260 |
| 60 | Barnett, Alexander (12657899) | 19 | MD | USA | 2258 |
| Haskel, Jeffrey (12744467) | 16 | FL | USA | 2258 | |
| Zierk, Steven C (12796611) | 15 | CA | USA | 2258 | |
| 63 | Brownell, Landon (12747886) | 18 | OR | USA | 2255 |
| 64 | Rodriguez, Eric (12661900) | 19 | FL | USA | 2254 |
| Shen, Victor C (12809707) | 15 | NJ | USA | 2254 | |
| Guadalupe, Francisco, Ii (12816147) | 19 | TX | USA | 2254 | |
| 67 | Williams, Christopher Michael (12788759) | 19 | MA | USA | 2249 |
| Young, Gregory (12888228) | 13 | CA | USA | 2249 | |
| 69 | Homa, Seth (12838750) | 20 | MI | USA | 2248 |
| 70 | Zorigt, Bayaraa (13526576) | 20 | TX | MGL | 2244 |
| 71 | Schneider, Kurt H (12690841) | 20 | CT | USA | 2237 |
| 72 | Wasiluk, Kevin Michael (12870920) | 19 | MN | USA | 2234 |
| 73 | Riccardi, Thomas Henry (12696562) | 17 | NY | USA | 2228 |
| Korley, Kassa (12832679) | 15 | NY | USA | 2228 | |
| 75 | Hilton, Jonathan Lawrence (12779072) | 18 | OH | USA | 2227 |
| 76 | Studen, Damir (12859364) | 18 | GA | USA | 2220 |
| 77 | Ross, Laura R (12630804) | 20 | NY | USA | 2216 |
| 78 | Whaley, Davis M (12666536) | 20 | KY | USA | 2214 |
| 79 | Gossell, Thomas G (12637572) | 20 | MO | USA | 2213 |
| Lopez, Nelson, Ii (12706502) | 20 | TX | USA | 2213 | |
| He, Tianyi (13039657) | 15 | CA | USA | 2213 | |
| 82 | Chen, Francis (12781794) | 18 | CA | USA | 2211 |
| 83 | Datta, Deepyaman (12742553) | 18 | TX | USA | 2210 |
| Alvarez, Ernesto (12999374) | 17 | FL | USA | 2210 | |
| 85 | Cao, Tony (12827934) | 18 | IL | USA | 2208 |
| 86 | Aradhyula, Vaishnav (12671954) | 18 | AZ | USA | 2207 |
| Nip, Nicholas (13062538) | 10 | CA | USA | 2207 | |
| 88 | Barclay, Kayin (12751600) | 18 | IL | USA | 2205 |
| 89 | Yang, Michael (12895744) | 14 | MN | USA | 2204 |
| 90 | Tanaka, Christian T (12870021) | 15 | CA | USA | 2203 |
| 91 | Waidyaratne, Kasun D (12757955) | 16 | OH | USA | 2202 |
| 92 | Lau, Robert (12718055) | 17 | HI | USA | 2200 |
| Yang, Stanley (12849288) | 16 | TX | USA | 2200 | |
| 94 | Zhang, Melvin (12663907) | 20 | MA | USA | 2198 |
| 95 | Agarwal, Rohan (12875855) | 15 | CA | USA | 2196 |
| 96 | Selzler, Ricky (12842861) | 19 | WA | USA | 2193 |
| 97 | Goldstein, Brian (12647080) | 20 | FL | USA | 2190 |
| Yeh, Peter (12736190) | 19 | TX | USA | 2190 | |
| 99 | Davies, Lucas Gabriel (12833344) | 20 | *FOR* | CAN | 2189 |
| 100 | Ng, Andrew (12870005) | 13 | NJ | USA | 2185 |
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Chess Federation. Ages are as of the first day of the month in which
the lists are first published. For example, ages for the December
lists (published in November) are as of November 1.
Ratings shown are the official USCF ratings for the month indicated, which are generated early in the month before they become official. Only current USCF members with established ratings and ratings activity in the last year are shown. Please contact us if you have questions about these lists.