Le Quang Liem, the new #1 junior in the world, will be at Texas Tech University this October to compete in the 2011 SPICE Cup A group. The top American junior on this list is GM Hess. He is unable to compete in the SPICE Cup due to his college schedule.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Le, Quang Liem
g VIE 2715 22 1991
2 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2711 9 1992
3 Giri, Anish g NED 2701 12 1994
4 Yu, Yangyi g CHN 2672 33 1994
5 Feller, Sebastien g FRA 2666 6 1991
6 So, Wesley g PHI 2658 23 1993
7 Ding, Liren g CHN 2654 15 1992
8 Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2642 18 1993
9 Matlakov, Maxim g RUS 2632 0 1991
10 Sjugirov, Sanan g RUS 2629 0 1993
11 Salgado Lopez, Ivan g ESP 2626 7 1991
12 Safarli, Eltaj g AZE 2622 9 1992
13 Kovalyov, Anton g ARG 2612 9 1992
14 Hess, Robert L g USA 2609 13 1991
15 Zherebukh, Yaroslav g UKR 2590 15 1993
16 Nyzhnyk, Illya g UKR 2589 9 1996
17 Shimanov, Aleksandr g RUS 2586 11 1992
18 Nabaty, Tamir g ISR 2584 11 1991
19 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2575 24 1994
20 Cordova, Emilio g PER 2567 18 1991
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