World Thinking Sports Games

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Estonian checkers player Kaari Vainonen at the Beijing Games 2008

The World Mind Sports Games ( "World Mind Sports Games") are a since 2008 carried out multi-sport event for the mind sports Bridge , Lady , Go , Xiangqi and chess . It is planned to hold it every four years as close as possible to the Olympic Games in terms of time and space .

Idea of ​​creation

British participants in the Go competition

The IOC has given its two members, Schach and Bridge, to understand that it will not be possible to join the Olympic program for the foreseeable future. This gave rise to the idea of founding the IMSA (= International Mind Sports Association ). This joined the world federations for chess, bridge, go and checkers. Because the IOC indicated in the cancellation (see above) that they see their own events as a way out for the sports that cannot be newly admitted to the Olympic Games. Such initiatives are welcomed and supported by the IOC (IOC President Jacques Rogge is Chairman of the Honorary Committee of the World Mind Sports Games 2008).

history

From October 3rd to 18th, 2008, the 1st World Mind Sports Games were held in Beijing under the auspices of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) and under the direction of the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) . With the support of the IOC, in addition to the Olympic Games and the Paralympics, they are the expression of the Olympic sports idea for brain games . The organizer was the Beijing Sports Bureau of the Chinese State Organization for Board and Card Games .

The 2nd World Thinking Sports Games were held in Lille from 9 to 23 August 2012 . The mental sports represented were the same as four years earlier in Beijing.

The 3rd edition of the games took place from February 25th to March 3rd, 2016 in Huai'an .

The sports

Medal table

At the 1st World Thinking Sports Games there were a total of 35 gold medals: 9 for Bridge, 10 for Chess, 6 for Go, 5 for Checkers and 5 for Xiangqi.

See also

Denksport Olympiad organized by the Denk-Sport-Organization since 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMSA: "2nd World Mind Sports Games" ( Memento from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Official results page ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )