International Mind Sports Association

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The International Mind Sports Association ( IMSA ) is an umbrella association for brain games founded in 2005 .

The IMSA was founded by the World Bridge Federation ( Bridge ), FIDE Chess , the World Drafts Federation ( Checkers ), the International Go Federation Go on April 19, 2005. In 2015, the World Xiangqi Federation ( Xiangqi ) became the fifth and on April 7, 2017 the Mahjong International League became the sixth member association. It is a member of the umbrella organization of the sports associations Sportaccord (formerly General Association of International Sports Federations GAISF).

The International Federation of Poker has had observer status with the IMSA since April 30, 2010. Mahjong, represented by the Mahjong International League, had observer status from April 2016 to April 2017 and was then admitted as the sixth member.

It was founded with the aim of organizing joint competitions for all member associations, the so-called World Thinking Sports Games , in particular an event similar to the Olympic Games in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The first World Mind Sports Games (1st World Mind Sports Games) were held in Beijing in October 2008 . In addition to the four member associations at the time, the Chinese variant of chess, Xiangqi , was also represented. In 2012, the 2nd World Thinking Sports Games took place from August 9th to 23rd, 2012 in Lille . The thinking sports represented will be the same as four years earlier in Beijing.

Member associations

• World Bridge Federation (WBF) - Bridge (Since 2005)
• World Drafts Federation (FMJD) - Dame (Since 2005)
• International Go Federation (IGF) - Go (Since 2005)
• World Chess Federation (FIDE) - Chess (Since 2005)
• World Xiangqi Federation (WXF) - Xiangqi (Since 2015)
• Mahjong International League (MIL) - Mahjong (Since 2017)
• Federation of Card Games (FCG) - card game (since 2018)

See also

• Confédération des loisirs et des sports de l'esprit

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mahjong recognized as the 6th brain sport
2. ↑ IMSA: "2nd World Mind Sports Games" ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.