ICC Open - The Last Samurai!

IM Cemil Can Ali Marandi, who likes people to call him JJ, won the 2017 ICC Open.  His ICC username is Last7Samurai, and he was the epitome of a warrior, playing precise, fast and deadly chess through the whole event.  ICC's great commentator GM Eric Hansen was amazed and impressed by JJ's play, and complimented him sincerely during the interview after the finals. It's been the ICC Open of the "upsets."  Among the super-strong 32 finalists, there were specialists such as Alexander Grischuk, Ding Liren, Leinier Dominguez Perez. But the so-called "underdogs" played great blitz chess, and it was clear pretty soon that the top players would not have had an easy way to the finals.   READ MORE

It’s all your fault, ICC!

ICC's VP Marty Grund (LateKnight) met Joseph Ocol at the SuperNationals in Nashville, Tennessee, and was struck by the passion and dedication of this humble math teacher, who out of his mere teacher's salary bought food and chess sets to teach chess after school, thus keeping them off the streets during dangerous hours of the day.  This happened in 2004, and since then Joseph and his pupils have come a long way.  

VP Marty Grund wants to say THANK YOU to all the donors, especially the ICC's Politics community (channel 97), and call them TO ACTION once again: ICC, Channel 97, It's ALL your fault! After several successful ICC/Channel 97 donation campaigns, the results for our kids have changed their lives! They have had invitations to the White House, Chicago's Mayor & City Council and Illinois's Commissioner office to receive congratulation's that could NOT have happened if it were not for all of you! And now we need your help again: We need to gather donations to get them all to Super Nationals in Nashville in less than two weeks! Check out the links about the successes YOU folks made possible!   READ THE ARTICLE

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