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 Manchester (UK) ?
Recently (May 2012) in Ranka online http://ranka.intergofed.org/?p=3523
it is said
Planning for a second World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) in August 2012 is now underway, with Manchester UK as the leading candidate to host. Also under consideration is a third WMSG in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.
That is all what I know, anybody knows more?
2012 London ?
Willemien How will it be in London 2012?
Phelan: So far, the only thing I have seen covering that question is Yuki Shigeno's
Ranka interview, and she doesn't give a definite answer, which is understandable at this point.
Herman: London is not gonna happen. Initially it was thought that it was easy to organise it right after the olympics and use the same accommodation, but with the Paralympics also held shortly after the Olympics, it turned out not to be easy at all. For that reason, the WMSG is now a separate event, not tied directly to the olympics. AFAIK there are several cities in the running for organizing it, and it will probably be held in 2013.
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)