World Mind Sports Games

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UK players for the Individual Women's Go competition at the first World Mind Sports Games, 2008 in Beijing

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The first World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games.[1][2][3] They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sport.[4][5] Provisionally as of December 2010, the second WMSG will be August 2012 in Manchester, UK.[6] (Formal announcement of the second Games by the IMSA is anticipated for 17 November during the 2011 Mind Sports Festival in London.)

Five mind sports participated in the first Games: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go (weiqi), and xiangqi (chinese chess).[7][8] Thirty-five gold medals were contested by 2,763 competitors from 143 countries.[9]

According to the World Bridge Federation, it incorporated the World Team Olympiad (1960–2004) and some established youth events in the Games "as the stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".[10]

[edit] Events

[edit] Bridge

Main article: Bridge at the 1st World Mind Sports Games

The World Bridge Federation was one of four world sport governing bodies that established the International Mind Sports Association in 2005. It organized eleven events in Beijing that constituted the "World Bridge Games" including nine WMSG medal events. Six were among the established world bridge championships contested in even-number years.[n 1] The other three were for "youth" under age 28, a one-time compromise.[10][n 2] More than 1400 players participated, about half of all players in the Games. Entries from European Bridge League countries[n 3] won 22 of the 27 medals, led by Norway with six medals including two gold.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
WMSG medalists in bridge
Open Teams Italy Italy England England Norway Norway
Women Teams England England China China United States USA
Open Individual Norway Tor Helness Norway Geir Helgemo Russia Andrey Gromov
Women Individual Sweden Catarina Midskog France Anne-Fréderique Lévy China Yan Ru
Youth Individual Turkey Salih Murat Anter Romania Radu Nistor Norway Lars Arthur Johansen  
Youth Pairs Turkey Mehmet Remzi Şakirler
  — Melih Osman Şen		 Israel Lotan Fisher
  — Ron Haim Schwartz		 Poland Joanna Krawczyk
  — Piotr Tuczyński
under-28 Teams Norway Norway Poland Poland China China
under-26 Teams Denmark Denmark Poland Poland Norway Norway
under-21 Teams France France England England China China

Two other events were continued by the WBF from its quadrennial "Olympiad" program, as part of its new "World Bridge Games" but separate from the WMSG (non-medal events sharing the facilities). Japan won the third Senior International Cup, for national teams of seniors (age 58+). 'Yeh Bros' from Chinese Taipei won the second Transnational Mixed Teams, for teams of any nationality comprising mixed pairs, one man and one woman.[11]

[edit] Chess

Main article: Chess at the 1st World Mind Sports Games

The World Chess Federation was one of four world sport governing bodies that established the IMSA in 2005.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Individual Blitz Ukraine Martyn Kravtsiv Ukraine Yuriy Drozdovsky Greece Christodoulos Banikas
Women's Individual Blitz Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk Bulgaria Antoaneta Stefanova China Hou Yifan
Men's Individual Rapid China Bu Xiangzhi Ukraine Anton Korobov Singapore Zhang Zhong
Women's Individual Rapid Bulgaria Antoaneta Stefanova China Zhao Xue China Huang Qian
Mixed Pairs Blitz Ecuador Carlos Matamoros Franco / Fierro Martha Baquero India Krishnan Sasikiran / Tania Sachdev Ukraine Valeriy Aveskulov / Tatjana Vasilevich
Mixed Pairs Rapid China Ni Hua / Hou Yifan Vietnam Dao Thien Hai / Le Kieu Thien Kim Iran Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami / Atousa Pourkashian
Men's Teams Blitz Hungary Hungary China China Ukraine Ukraine
Women's Teams Blitz Russia Russia China China Vietnam Vietnam
Men's Teams Rapid China China Ukraine Ukraine Iran Iran
Women's Teams Rapid China China Ukraine Ukraine Russia Russia

[edit] Draughts

Main article: Draughts at the 1st World Mind Sports Games

The World Draughts Federation was one of four world sport governing bodies that established the IMSA in 2005. In the first Games, 288 players participated in five medal events. There was a strong regional showing as twelve of the fifteen medals were won by players from Russia, Latvia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
International Draughts 100sq (Men) Russia Alexander Georgiev Russia Alexander Getmanski Latvia Guntis Valneris
International Draughts 100sq (Women) Latvia Zoja Golubeva Netherlands Tanja Chub Russia Tamara Tansykkuzhina　
Russian Draughts 64sq (Women) UkraineViktoriya Motrichko MoldovaElena Miskova Moldova Julia Romanskaia
Brazilian Draughts 64sq (Men) Russia Dashkov Oleg Moldova Ion Dosca Ukraine Belosheev Sergey
Checkers (Mixed) United States Alex Moiseyev Barbados Ron King Latvia Raivis Paegle

[edit] Go

Main article: Go at the 1st World Mind Sports Games

The International Go Federation was one of four world sport governing bodies that established the IMSA in 2005. In the first Games, 560 players participated in six medal events:[12]

  • Men's Individual —up to 5 players per country.
  • Women's Individual —up to 3 players per country.
  • Men's Team, 5 players with 1 substitute (5 separate games per round)
  • Women's Team, 3 players with 1 substitute (3 separate games per round)
  • Pair Go, 1 male-female pair playing alternate moves without consultation (sequence black female, white female, black male, white male)
  • Open, 2 amateur players

South Korea won half of the 18 medals and all were swept by competitors from Eastern Asia.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Individual South Korea Kang Dongyoon 7p South Korea Park Jungsang 9p China Li Zhe 6p
Women's Individual China Song Ronghui 1p [13] South Korea Lee Minjin 5p [13] South Korea Park Ji Eun 9p [13]
Open North Korea Jo Sae Byol 7d [14] (Jo Tae-Won)[15] South Korea Ham Youngwoo 7d [14] South Korea Lee Yong Hee 6d [14]
Men's Team South Korea South Korea China China Japan Japan
Women's Team China China South Korea South Korea Japan Japan
Pair Go China Huang Yizhong 7p ／ Fan Weijing 2p Chinese Taipei Chou Chun-Hsun 9p ／ Hsieh Yi-Min 4p South Korea On So Jin 4p ／ Lee Ha Jin 3p

[edit] Xiangqi

Xiangqi, or "Chinese chess", was the fifth mind sport to participate in the first World Mind Sports Games, where 125 players participated in five events. The host country won all five gold medals.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Rapid (Men) China Wang Yang China Jiang Chuan Hong Kong Zhao Ruquan
Individual (Women) China Wang linna China Zhao Guanfang Vietnam Ngo Lan Huong
Individual (Men) China Xu Yinchuan China Hong Zhi Malaysia Look Kongdwa
Team (Women) China China Australia Australia Vietnam Vietnam
Team (Men) China China Vietnam Vietnam Hong Kong Hong Kong

[edit] Medals

Teams from the host country China won one-quarter of the 105 medals including one-third of the gold.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China China 12 8 6 26
2 Russia Russia 4 1 3 8
3 South Korea South Korea 2 4 3 9
3 Ukraine Ukraine 2 4 3 9
5 Norway Norway 2 1 3 6
6 Turkey Turkey 2 0 0 2
7 England England 1 2 0 3
8 Bulgaria Bulgaria 1 1 0 2
8 France France 1 1 0 2
10 Latvia Latvia 1 0 2 3
11 United States USA 1 0 1 2
12 North Korea North Korea 1 0 0 1
12 Sweden Sweden 1 0 0 1
12 Denmark Denmark 1 0 0 1
12 Ecuador Ecuador 1 0 0 1
12 Hungary Hungary 1 0 0 1
12 Italy Italy 1 0 0 1
18 Vietnam Vietnam 0 2 3 5
19 Poland Poland 0 2 1 3
19 Moldova Moldova 0 2 1 3
21 Netherlands Netherlands 0 1 0 1
21 Romania Romania 0 1 0 1
21 Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 0 1 0 1
21 Australia Australia 0 1 0 1
21 Barbados Barbados 0 1 0 1
21 India India 0 1 0 1
21 Israel Israel 0 1 0 1
28 Hong Kong Hong Kong 0 0 2 2
28 Iran Iran 0 0 2 2
28 Japan Japan 0 0 2 2
31 Malaysia Malaysia 0 0 1 1
31 Singapore Singapore 0 0 1 1
31 Greece Greece 0 0 1 1
Total 35 35 35 105

[edit] See also

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ World-level bridge competition comprises some series contested every two years, some every four years, thus in odd-number or even-number years but not both.
  2. ^ Youth events are defined by age under 26 (U26) and age under 21 (U21).
    • A mid-summer notice implies that one-time compromise will be extended to feature U28 youth at least once more in 2012. See the main article for more information. Clarification is anticipated for mid-November.
  3. ^ Several national bridge organizations from the Mediterranean and Western Asia are members of the European Bridge League.

[edit] References

  1. ^ First World Mind Sports Games to be held in Beijing. news.xinhuanet.com
  2. ^ China to host Bridge Games The News–International, Pakistan.
  3. ^ Beijing hosts first 'Mind Games', BBC News, 3 October 2008, by Shirong Chen. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  4. ^ A successful first edition of The World Mind Sports Games. International Mind Sports Association.
  5. ^ Introduction of the 1st World Mind Sports Games. British Go Association. No date. Retrieved 2011-05-23. Evidently this is a translation from Chinese.
  6. ^ World Mind Sports Games. British Go Association. Last updated 2010-12-10. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  7. ^ The first international mind sports games "IMSA Cup". FIDE (chess).
  8. ^ China to host 1st World Mind Sports Games. latestchess.com
  9. ^ 2008 WMSG Results. 2008 WMSG. Confirmed 2011-05-25.
  10. ^ a b World Bridge Games. World Bridge Federation (WBF). Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  11. ^ 1st World Mind Sports Games. WBF coverage of the bridge competitions. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  12. ^ "News". www.2008wmsg.org. 2008-10-20. http://www.2008wmsg.org/en/news/. [dead link]
  13. ^ a b c "Chinese Song triumphs in women's Go individual". www.2008wmsg.org. 2008-10-09. http://www.2008wmsg.org/en/news/2008-10-09/1649914.html. [dead link]
  14. ^ a b c "Go player Jo Sae Byol wins first gold for D.P.R.K". www.2008wmsg.org. 2008-10-10. http://www.2008wmsg.org/en/news/2008-10-10/1650348.html. [dead link]
  15. ^ "British Go News - Overseas Results". British Go Association. 2008-10-10. http://www.britgo.org/news/enews2. 

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