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The Mind Sports Organisation (MSO) is an association for promoting mental-skill games (Mind Sport) including Contract Bridge, Chess, Go, Mastermind, and Scrabble. [1]

77 relations: Abalone (board game), Abstract strategy game, Alexandra Palace, AllAfrica.com, Backgammon, Bōku, BBC, Cambridge, Chess, Continuo (game), Contract bridge, Creativity, Cribbage, Czech Republic, Dario De Toffoli, David Levy (chess player), Decamentathlon, Decathlon, Demis Hassabis, Draughts, Entropy (1977 board game), Etan Ilfeld, Finland, Go (game), Hammersmith, Intelligence quotient, International Mind Sports Association, Italy, JW3, Kamisado, Kensington (Olympia) station, Korea JoongAng Daily, Lawrence Hall, London, Lines of Action, List of world championships in mind sports, London South Bank University, Loughborough, Loughborough University, Manchester, Manchester City Council, Manchester Evening News, Mastermind (board game), Mental calculation, Milan, Mind sport, Mind Sports Olympiad, Ministry of Education (Singapore), Modern pentathlon, Novotel, Olympic Games, ..., Oulu, Pacru, Poker, Prague, Radio Prague, Raymond Keene, Reversi, Royal Festival Hall, Scrabble, Seoul, Shogi, Singapore, South Korea, Sudoku, The Guardian, The Independent, The Jewish Chronicle, The Times, Times Higher Education, Tony Buzan, TwixT, University of Manchester, University of Westminster, Westminster, World championship, World Mind Sports Games, Xiangqi. Expand index (27 more) »

Abalone (board game)

Abalone is an award-winning two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987.

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Abstract strategy game

An abstract strategy game is a strategy game that does not rely on a theme.

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Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London, located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green.

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AllAfrica.com

AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.

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Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games.

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Bōku

Bōku is an abstract strategy board gameBoku at Board Game Geek retrieved 29 April 2011 played by putting marbles on a perforated hexagonal board with 80 spaces.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Continuo (game)

Continuo is an abstract strategy game by Maureen Hiron first published in 1982 and now distributed in board game form by David Westnedge Ltd.

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Contract bridge

Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.

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Creativity

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.

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Cribbage

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game traditionally for two players, but commonly played with three, four or more, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Dario De Toffoli

Dario De Toffoli is an Italian board game designer, gamebook author, and elite games player who founded the games company Studiogiochi and established many games events.

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David Levy (chess player)

David Neil Laurence Levy (born 14 March 1945) is a British International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads.

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Decamentathlon

The Decamentathlon is a multi disciplined games event that was created as part of the first Mind Sports Olympiad.

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Decathlon

The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events.

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Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, video game designer, entrepreneur, and world-class games player.

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Draughts

Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.

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Entropy (1977 board game)

Entropy is an abstract strategy board game for two players designed by Eric Solomon in 1977.

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Etan Ilfeld

Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the founder of Tenderpixel gallery, Tenderbooks, Tenderflix, Repeater Books, and the owner and managing director of Watkins Books and the Mind Sports Olympiad.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Go (game)

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent.

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Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district of west London, England, located west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.

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International Mind Sports Association

The International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) is an association of the world governing bodies for contract bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go, Mahjong and xianqi (Chinese chess), namely the World Bridge Federation (WBF), World Chess Federation (FIDE), World Draughts Federation (FMJD), International Go Federation (IGF), Mahjong International League and World Xiangqi Federation (WXF).

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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JW3

JW3, also known as Jewish Community Centre London, is an arts, culture and entertainment venue, an educational facility and a social and community hub in north London.

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Kamisado

Kamisado is an abstract strategy board game for two players that's played on an 8x8 multicoloured board.

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Kensington (Olympia) station

Kensington (Olympia) is a combined rail and tube station between Kensington and West Kensington on the boundary of west and central London.

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Korea JoongAng Daily

Korea JoongAng Daily is the English language version of the South Korean national daily newspaper JoongAng Ilbo.

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Lawrence Hall, London

Lawrence Hall in Greycoat Street, Westminster was the newer of the two Royal Horticultural Halls owned by R.H.S. Enterprises Limited, which is part of the Royal Horticultural Society charity in central London.

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Lines of Action

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List of world championships in mind sports

This page gives a list of world championships in mind sports which usually represent the most prestigious competition for a specific board game, card game or mind sport.

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London South Bank University

London South Bank University (LSBU) is a public university in Newington, London.

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Loughborough

Loughborough is a town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, seat of Charnwood Borough Council, and home to Loughborough University.

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Loughborough University

Loughborough University (abbreviated as Lough for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council is the local government authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England.

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Mastermind (board game)

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Mental calculation

Mental calculation comprises arithmetical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from any supplies (such as pencil and paper) or devices such as a calculator.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Mind sport

A mind sport, or as it's more commonly referred to an altsport, is a game of skill where the competition is based on a particular type of the intellectual ability as opposed to physical exercise.

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Mind Sports Olympiad

The Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) is an annual international multi-disciplined competition and festival for games of mental skill and mind sports.

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Ministry of Education (Singapore)

The Ministry of Education (Abbreviation: MOE; Kementerian Pendidikan; Chinese: 教育部; கல்வி அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore that directs the formulation and implementation of policies related to education in Singapore.

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Modern pentathlon

The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five different events; fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming (200m), equestrian show jumping (15 jumps), and a final combined event of pistol shooting and cross country running (3200m).

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Novotel

Novotel is an upscale hotel brand within the AccorHotels group, typically slotting between the Grand Mercure and Pullman brands.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Oulu

Oulu (Uleåborg) is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland.

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Pacru

Pacru is an abstract board game invented by Mike Wellmann.

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Poker

Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Radio Prague

Radio Prague (Český rozhlas 7 - Radio Praha) is the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic.

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Raymond Keene

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess Grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author.

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Reversi

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Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,500-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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Shogi

(), also known as Japanese chess or the Game of Generals, is a two-player strategy board game in the same family as chess, chaturanga, makruk, shatranj, janggi and xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Sudoku

(originally called Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Jewish Chronicle

The Jewish Chronicle (The JC) is a London-based Jewish weekly newspaper.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education (THE), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education.

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Tony Buzan

Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan (born 2 June 1942) is an English author and educational consultant.

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TwixT

TwixT is a two-player strategy board game, an early entrant in the 1960s 3M bookshelf game series.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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University of Westminster

The University of Westminster is a public university in London, United Kingdom.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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World championship

A world championship is generally an international sports competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport or contest.

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World Mind Sports Games

The World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) is a quadrennial multi-sport event created by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) as a "stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".

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Xiangqi

Xiangqi, also called Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Sports_Organisation

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