World Mind Sports Games
The World Mind Sports Games are an international competition of mind sports Go, Chess, Draughts, Bridge, and Xiang Qi, with the intent of promoting them as Olympic Sports.
2012 Lille
The second edition of the games took place in Lille (France), 9-23 August 2012 (see http://www.imsaworld.com/site/news_full/26.html)
Official site (for the Go events) at http://wmsg2012.org/
2008 Beijing
The 2008 edition was held in Beijing, in October of that year. KangTongYun won the Men's Individual, and RonghuiSong won the Women's Individual.
The 2008 edition's rules have been published, and commented on.
The Go section of the tournament used a mixed system that used eight separate Swiss Pairing tournaments of up to 24 players to select two players. These sixteen players then competed in a Single Knockout Tournament to determine the final winner and other rankings.
External Links
Official site
- in english (new address)
http://ranka.intergofed.org/
- (the page of the International Go Federation)
http://kamyszyn.go.art.pl/wmsg2008
- (unofficial, a directory of links, full tables, photos)