2008 World Mind Sports Games

none thumb|right|UK players for the Individual Women's Go competition at the first World Mind Sports Games, 2008 in Beijing The first World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games.First World Mind Sports Games to be held in Beijing. news.xinhuanet.comChina to host Bridge Games https://web.archive.org/web/20080928200306/http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=90855 2008-09-28 The News–International, Pakistan.Beijing hosts first 'Mind Games', BBC News, 3 October 2008, by Shirong Chen. Retrieved 2011-05-23. They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sport.A successful first edition of The World Mind Sports Games https://web.archive.org/web/20110322082620/http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/beijing.08/press_release_post.pdf 2011-03-22 . International Mind Sports Association.Introduction of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games https://web.archive.org/web/20120320052428/http://www.britgo.org/files/wmsg_background.pdf 2012-03-20 . British Go Association. No date. Retrieved 2011-05-23. Five mind sports participated in the first Games: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go (weiqi), and xiangqi (Chinese chess).The first international mind sports games "IMSA Cup" https://web.archive.org/web/20080426030042/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/2900-the-first-international-mind-sports-games-imsa-cup 2008-04-26 . FIDE (chess).China to host 2008 World Mind Sports Games https://web.archive.org/web/20160312065443/http://latestchess.com/shownews.php?id=146 2016-03-12 . latestchess.com Thirty-five gold medals were contested by 2,763 competitors from 143 countries.2008 WMSG Results https://web.archive.org/web/20170323234108/http://www.2008wmsg.org/2008-wmsg-results 2017-03-23 . 2008 WMSG. Confirmed 2011-05-25. According to the World Bridge Federation, it incorporated the World Team Olympiad (1960–2004) and some established youth events in the Games "as the stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the 'regular' Olympics and the Paralympics)".World Bridge Games https://web.archive.org/web/20131220221628/http://www.worldbridge.org/competitions/worldchampionships/worldbridgegames.asp 2013-12-20 . World Bridge Federation (WBF). Retrieved 2011-05-24. Events 35 set of medals : Bridge (9) Draughts (10) Chess (5) Go (6) Xiangqi (5) Bridge Bridge at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games The World Bridge Federation organized eleven events in Beijing that constituted the "World Bridge Games" including nine WMSG medal events. Six were among the established world bridge championships contested in even-number years.World-level bridge competition comprises some series contested every two years, some every four years, thus in odd-number or even-number years but not both. The other three were for "youth" under age 28, a one-time compromise.Youth events are defined by age under 26 (U26) and age under 21 (U21). • A mid-summer notice implies that one-time compromise will be extended to feature U28 youth at least once more in 2012. See the main article for more information. Clarification is anticipated for mid-November. More than 1400 players participated, about half of all players in the Games. Entries from European Bridge League countriesSeveral national bridge organizations from the Mediterranean and Western Asia are members of the European Bridge League https://web.archive.org/web/20120505034244/http://www.eurobridge.org/index2.html 2012-05-05 . won 22 of the 27 medals, led by Norway with six medals including two gold. + WMSG medalists in bridgeOpen TeamsItalyEnglandNorwayWomen TeamsEnglandChinaUSA United StatesOpen IndividualNorway Tor HelnessNorway Geir HelgemoRussia Andrey GromovWomen IndividualSweden Catarina MidskogFrance Anne-Fréderique LévyChina Yan Ru Youth IndividualTurkey Salih Murat AnterRomania Radu NistorNorway Lars Arthur JohansenYouth PairsTurkey Mehmet Remzi Şakirler / Melih Osman ŞenIsrael Lotan Fisher / Ron SchwartzPoland Joanna Krawczyk / Piotr Tuczyńskiunder-28 TeamsNorwayPolandChinaunder-26 TeamsDenmarkPolandNorwayunder-21 TeamsFranceEnglandChina Two other events were continued by the WBF from its quadrennial "Olympiad" program, as part of its new "World Bridge Games" but separate from the WMSG (non-medal events sharing the facilities). Japan won the third Senior International Cup, for national teams of seniors (age 58+). 'Yeh Bros' from Chinese Taipei won the second Transnational Mixed Teams, for teams of any nationality comprising mixed pairs, one man and one woman.2008 World Mind Sports Games https://web.archive.org/web/20120507041031/http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/Beijing.08/Beijing.htm 2012-05-07 . WBF coverage of the bridge competitions. Retrieved 2011-05-24. Chess Chess at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games The World Chess Federation organized ten events in Beijing, all of them in rapid or blitz chess. Men's Individual BlitzUKR Martyn KravtsivUKR Yuriy DrozdovskyGRE Hristos BanikasWomen's Individual BlitzRUS Alexandra KosteniukBUL Antoaneta StefanovaCHN Hou YifanMen's Individual RapidCHN Bu XiangzhiUKR Anton KorobovSIN Zhang ZhongWomen's Individual RapidBUL Antoaneta StefanovaCHN Zhao XueCHN Huang QianMixed Pairs BlitzEcuador Carlos Matamoros Franco / Martha FierroIND Krishnan Sasikiran / Tania SachdevUKR Valeriy Aveskulov / Tatjana VasilevichMixed Pairs RapidCHN Ni Hua / Hou YifanVNM Đào Thiên Hải / Lê Kiều Thiên KimIran Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami / Atousa PourkashiyanMen's Teams BlitzHUN HungaryPRC ChinaUKR UkraineWomen's Teams BlitzRUS RussiaChinaVNM VietnamMen's Teams RapidChinaUKR UkraineIranWomen's Teams RapidChinaUKR UkraineRUS Russia Draughts Draughts at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games Under the auspices of the World Draughts Federation 288 players participated in five medal events in Beijing. There was a strong regional showing as twelve of the fifteen medals were won by players from Russia, Latvia, Moldova, and Ukraine. International Draughts 100sq (Men)RUS Alexander GeorgievRUS Alexander GetmanskiLAT Guntis ValnerisInternational Draughts 100sq (Women)LAT Zoja GolubevaNED Tanja ChubRUS Tamara TansykkuzhinaRussian Draughts 64sq (Women)UKR Viktoriya MotrichkoMDA Elena MiskovaMDA Julia RomanskaiaBrazilian Draughts 64sq (Men)RUS Oleg DashkovMDA Ion DoscaUKR Sergey BelosheevCheckers (Mixed)USA Alex MoiseyevBAR Ron KingLAT Raivis Paegle Go Go at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games Under the auspices of the International Go Federation 560 players participated in six medal events in Beijing. South Korea won half of the 18 medals and all were swept by competitors from Eastern Asia. Men's IndividualKOR Kang Dongyun 7pThe numbers and letters after the players' names refer to their professional or amateur ranks.KOR Park Jungsang 9pCHN Li Zhe 6pWomen's IndividualPRC Song Ronghui 1pKOR Lee Minjin 5pKOR Pak Chi-eun 9pOpenPRK Jo Tae-Won 7d British Go News – Overseas Results British Go Association 2008-10-10 http://www.britgo.org/news/enews2 2012-06-02 2012-03-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20120306022554/http://www.britgo.org/news/enews2 dead KOR Ham Youngwoo 7dKOR Lee Yong Hee 6dMen's TeamKOR South KoreaChinaJapanWomen's TeamChinaKOR South KoreaJapanPair GoChina Huang Yizhong 7p ／ Fan Weijing 2pChinese Taipei Chou Chun-Hsun 9p ／ Hsieh Yi-Min 4pSouth Korea On So Jin 4p ／ Lee Ha Jin 3p Xiangqi Xiangqi, or "Chinese chess", was the fifth sport to participate in Beijing, where 125 players participated in five events. Although the World Xiangqi Federation was not a member of IMSA at the time, the sport was included in the Beijing games as a traditional Chinese sport with a large number of players, especially in China. The host country won all five gold medals. Rapid (Men)CHN Wang YangCHN Jiang ChuanHKG Zhao RuquanIndividual (Women)CHN Wang linnaCHN Zhao GuanfangVNM Ngô Lan HươngIndividual (Men)CHN Xu YinchuanCHN Hong ZhiMYS Look KongdwaTeam (Women)ChinaAUS AustraliaVNM VietnamTeam (Men)ChinaVNM VietnamHKG Hong Kong Medals Teams from the host country China won one-quarter of the 105 medals, including one-third of the gold. 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Bridge – Official "World Bridge Games" top page Chess – Official participants list https://web.archive.org/web/20110708142428/http://players.chessdom.com/world-mind-sports-games-participants 2011-07-08 Draughts – Official participants list Go – American Go Association advance top page 2008 World Mind Sports Games 2008 Category:2008 in Beijing Category:2008 in multi-sport events Category:International sports competitions hosted by China Category:2008 in Chinese sport Category:Multi-sport events in China Category:2008 in chess Category:2008 in draughts Category:2008 in go