Decamentathlon
Decamentathlon is an all - around competition that was created for the first Thinking Sports Olympics to find the best thinking and sports all-rounder in the world. First place was originally endowed with £ 10,000 , the same as the highest endowed individual event sponsored by Skandia . While the other disciplines were more distributed in time, the Decamentathlon took place in one session. The discipline was intended as the flagship of the Thinking Sports Olympics. Even so, today Pentamind is considered more important.
format
The Thinking Sports Olympiad was intended as the Olympic Games of the Mind. Decamentathlon and Pentamind were inspired by decathlon and pentathlon . Unlike Pentamind, Decamentathlon has a fixed format. It consists of a four-hour test that is divided into ten disciplines. Each discipline was either a reduced variant, a full variant with two players against each other or a paper. In each discipline you can get a maximum of 100 points, so that you can achieve a maximum of 1000 points. The complexity of Decamentathlon means that this sport is only practiced at the Denk-Sport-Olympiad with the annual world championship.
Decamentathlon consists of the following disciplines: contract bridge , chess , creative thinking, 8x8 checkers , go , intelligence , mastermind , memory , mental arithmetic , othello .
The discipline of memory has a fixed format: players have to memorize a deck of cards and a number made up of 96 digits. In 2008, backgammon was tested instead of bridge .
controversy
There is a dispute over the thesis that the discipline favors speaking English , especially in creative thinking and intelligence. There was only one winner without English as a native language, Gert Schnider . On the other hand, some winners of the Decamentathlon have won the Pentamind in other years, so the advantage is low. Other criticisms relate to the evaluation and incorrect official responses, which led to the reassignment of medals.
World Champion
The World Championships have been part of the MSO since 1997.
- 1997: A Dyson
- 1998: Paul Smith
- 1999: Paul Smith
- 2000: Gert Schnider
- 2001: Ben Pridmore
- 2002: David M. Pearce
- 2003: Demis Hassabis
- 2004: Demis Hassabis
- 2005: Martyn Hamer
- 2006: Matthew J. Cordell
- 2007: Matthew J. Cordell
- 2008: Alain S. Dekker
- 2009: Mathew J. Cordell
- 2010: Mathew J. Cordell
- 2011: Mathew J. Cordell
- 2012: Alain Dekker
- 2013: Martyn Hamer
- 2014: Mathew J. Cordell
- 2015: Chris Bryant
- 2016: Matthew Hathrell
- 2017: Matthew Hathrell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Mind Sports Olympiad Suppliments , The Times , July - August 1997.
- ^ David Ward, Cerebral athletes play mind games , The Guardian , August 22, 2005, accessed July 31, 2009.
- ↑ Article about Decamentathlon , http://www.boardability.com/games/decamentathlon.html , accessed July 31, 2009.