Think sports organization
The Mind Sports Organization ( English Mind Sports Organization , MSO) promotes mind sports including Contract Bridge , Chess , Go , Mastermind (Mastermind) and Scrabble . It was founded in conjunction with the thought-Sports Olympiad (English. Mind Sports Olympiad , MSO). Since 1997, the Denk Sport Organization has organized the main event of the Denk Sport Olympiad annually in Great Britain ; there are also smaller events elsewhere, especially in Milan .
The Thinking Sports Olympics
The first Think Sports Olympiad was held at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1997 . It combined more strategy games and disciplines than ever before. William Hartston said in The Independent : "The greatest gaming festival ever held here (or anywhere else)".
In addition to many well-known games, two new disciplines that the MSO itself had invented were introduced: Pentamind and Decamentathlon . The two all- around disciplines are inspired by the modern pentathlon and the decathlon . Their introduction was part of the intention to create an Olympiad of Mind.
The Thinking Sports Olympics returned to London in 1998 and 1999 due to sponsorship. In 2000 there was controversy between the organizers, but a successful event was held at Alexandra Palace in 2000 .
During this period there were some satellite events under the umbrella of the Thinking Sport Olympiad. These took place in Cambridge , South Korea , Milan and Prague .
The main event of the Thinking Sports Olympics continued to take place, but without sponsors. The venues were various universities. The event continued to be well attended in 2001-2006. In 2004 there were separate competitions for schools in chess, go, quizzes and intelligence tasks. But in 2007 the Mind Sports Olympics only took place in a small venue, the Potters Bar, as there were neither sponsors nor advertising.
In 2008, the Thinking Sports Olympiad returned to a central location in central London, The Royal Horticultural Halls , Westminster , where the next Thinking Sports Olympics took place from August 21st to 31st, 2009.
Despite the difficulty of the main events, many of the satellite events are going well.
Venues
The Thinking Sport Olympiad has been held annually since 1997 at the following locations in Great Britain:
- 1997 Royal Festival Hall, London
- 1998 Novotel Hotel , Hammersmith
- 1999 Kensington Olympia , London
- 2000 Alexandra Palace, London
- 2001 South Bank University , London
- 2002 Loughborough University , Loughborough
- 2003 University of Manchester , Manchester
- 2004 Manchester University, Manchester
- 2005 Manchester University, Manchester
- 2006 University of Westminster , London
- 2007 Potters Bar
- 2008 Royal Horticultural Halls, London
- 2009 Royal Horticultural Halls, London
- 2010 Soho Theater, London
- 2011 University of London , London
- 2012 University of London , London
- 2013 University of London , London
- 2014 JW3 , London
- 2015 JW3 , London
- 2016 JW3 , London
Disciplines of the Thinking Sports Olympiad
The Thinking Sport Olympiad consists mainly of individual disciplines. Usually there is a fight for the nominal title of Olympic champion, but for some branded games the game inventor and the publisher have allowed the official world championships to be held. Medals and recently also trophies are awarded in every discipline in gold, silver and bronze, as well as ranks, there are similar rewards in every discipline in youth championships. In the beginning, generous sponsors made it possible to suspend larger financial prizes in many disciplines, but in recent years these have been greatly reduced and mostly limited to disciplines that were specifically sponsored by a sponsor.
The following games are disciplines: Well-known games: Chess , Bridge , Checkers , Go , Shogi , Backgammon , Xiangqi , Othello (≈ Reversi), Poker , Cribbage , Mastermind .
Newer games: Abalone , Bōku , Continuo (game) , Entropy , Lines of Action (LOA) , Pacru , Twixt , Kamisado , Quoridor
MSO tournaments is decamentathlon one more battle in which players in ten different mind sports compete: Memory Sports , mental arithmetic , intelligence quotient , Contract Bridge, Chess, Othello , 8x8 Lady , Go, Mastermind and creative thinking.
Pentamind
Pentamind was an invention of the Thinking Sports Olympiad and an attempt, together with the Decamentathlon, to create a discipline for participants in many branches, similar to the decathlon and pentathlon disciplines at the Olympic Games. Unlike Decamentathlon, Pentamind has a somewhat fixed format. Games that are too similar to one another or usually require a long event are not allowed, otherwise each participant can choose any five disciplines from the program. Nevertheless, it is regarded as one of the best disciplines for all-rounders.
The Pentamind Master is the player with the most "Pentamind Points". This results in each discipline as 100 x (n - p) / (n - 1), where n is the number of players and p is the position of the player in the results table of a discipline. There are no solutions for p, common positions are shared. Players can also defeat their Pentamind opponents in disciplines not selected by themselves by defeating them in disciplines selected by the opponents and thus reduce their Pentamind points.
Structure of the organization
Initially, the MSO was supported by strong corporate sponsors and was controlled by MSO Worldwide (MSOW), which received money from venture capitalists in Sweden. Many sponsors withdrew at the second Olympiad and there have been funding problems ever since. The organizers included David Levy , the original initiator of the MSO concept, Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene .
After a worsening financial situation, the MSOW faced difficulties and the goal of becoming the world's leading force in promoting intellectual sports was not achieved as the money invested (£ 1,000,000 to be precise) had been spent. The MSOW filed for bankruptcy in May 2001. David Levy became the leading figure. Tony Buzan withdrew. Ray Keene as well, since he preferred to sponsor more important events, for example the PCA Chess World Championship 2000 with Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik .
Controversies on the Thinking Sport Olympiad
Some commentators initially doubted the level of the event and viewed the titles awarded to the winners as excessive. One example was the first amateur poker world championship in 1998, which was described as a beginner's tournament. At that time internet poker was unknown, many people who played everything did not take part due to time conflicts.
More serious was the dispute before the third Olympiad, through which the original organizers publicly fell out. Raymond Keene criticized his brother-in-law, David Levy, and finances collapsed. In the years that followed, there was no sponsorship or advertising, and the Olympics until 2007 was a rather smaller event with fewer disciplines. This only changed in 2008.
Pentamind world champion
Demis Hassabi's winner was five times .
- 1997: Kenneth J. Wilshire (Wales)
- 1998: Demis Hassabis (England)
- 1999: Demis Hassabis (England)
- 2000: Demis Hassabis (England)
- 2001: Demis Hassabis (England)
- 2002: Dario De Tofoli (Italy)
- 2003: Demis Hassabis (England)
- 2004: Alain S. Dekker (South Africa)
- 2005: Tim Hebbes (England)
- 2006: Jan Stastna (Czech Republic)
- 2007: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2008: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2009: Martyn Hamer (England)
- 2010: Paco de la Banda (Spain)
- 2011: Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
- 2012: Dario De Tofoli (Italy)
- 2013: Ankush Khandelwal (England) and Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
- 2014: Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
- 2015: James Heppell (England)
- 2016: Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
- 2017: James Heppell (England)
- 2018: Ankush Khandelwal (England)
Individual evidence
- ^ William Hartston, The South Bank Brain Show , The Independent June 21, 1997, accessed August 2, 1997
- ↑ a b c The Mind Sports Olympiad Supplement s, The Times , July - August 1997
- ^ Robert Sheehan, Sheehan on Bridge , The Times , October 20, 1998
- ^ Alan Hiron, Games: Bridge , The Independent , December 5, 1999, accessed August 2, 2009
- ^ A b Paul Sussman, Fierce rivalry in 'Olympics' for brainboxes August 24, 2000
- ↑ Official Cambridge MSO website www.msocambridge.org.uk/ August 2, 2009
- ↑ Jan Velinger, Looking Forward To The Mind Sports Olympiad ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio Praha , September 17, 2006, accessed on August 2, 2009
- ^ A b David Ward, Cerebral Athletes Play Mind Games , The Guardian , August 22, 2005, accessed August 2, 2009
- ↑ a b c Stephen Moss, http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2156846,00.html ( Memento from August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) This time it's Personal , The Guardian , August 27, 2007
- ^ A b Information about venue for MSO XIII, http://www.boardability.com/mso/venue.html , August 2, 2009
- ↑ Jon Spielman, Independent Pusuits: Chess , The Independent , September 3, 1998, accessed July 31, 2009
- ↑ Robert Nurden. Mental athletes tune up for Mind Games , August 22, 1999, accessed August 2, 2009
- ↑ a b c Manchester Hosts 9th Mind Sports Olympiad , Manchester City Council News , August 2, 2005, accessed July 31, 2009
- ↑ MSO Official Website: Venue , accessed December 4, 2010
- ↑ List of games, http://www.boardability.com/games_az.html , accessed August 2, 2009
- ↑ David Spanier, Independent Pursuits: Poker , The Independent , September 10, 1998, accessed July 31, 2009
- ^ Robert Mendick, Britain's Mind Games end in debt and tears , May 13, 2001, accessed July 31, 2009
- ↑ MSO pentamind results ( memento of the original from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 4, 2010
See also
- World Thinking Sports Games , first held in 2008 by the International Mind Sports Association in chess, go, poker, checkers and bridge.