The International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) is an association of the world governing bodies for

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draughts Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British 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. Checkers ...

(checkers), go,

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(Chinese chess), and mahjong. Its members are the World Bridge Federation (WBF),

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(FIDE),

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(FMJD),

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(IGF),

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(WXF),

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(MIL) and Federation of Card Games (FCG). IMSA is a member of the

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, and was founded on 19 April 2005 during the GAISF General Assembly. It is based in

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World Mind Sports Games

The IMSA formerly organized the

World Mind Sport Games The World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) was a 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". The ...

, whose first rendition was held in Beijing, China 3–18 October 2008 about two months after the Beijing Olympic Games. The second Games in 2012 would have been formally announced 17 November during the 2011 Mind Sports Festival in

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, except that they failed to secure a venue by that time. However a venue was found in

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and the second World Mind Sports Games was held from 9–23 August 2012. Long term, it hopes to establish "World Mind Sports Games by analogy with Olympics, held in Olympic host cities shortly after Winter or Summer Games, using Olympic Games facilities and volunteers. The constituent World Bridge Federation incorporated several quadrennial world bridge championships in the World Mind Sport Games because it considers the WMSG a "stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".World Bridge Games
World Bridge Federation (worldbridge.org). Retrieved 2011-05-27.

SportAccord World Mind Games

IMSA inaugurated the SportAccord World Mind Games December 2011 in Beijing. For all sports, the meet was invitational and the events were not world championships. Beside satisfaction of the participating players and federations, the main objectives were to achieve "a worldwide TV coverage, and a large participation to the online tournament linked to the event.""Great Success of the 2011 SportAccord World Mind Games"
IMSA (imsaworld.com). ecember 2011 Retrieved 2014-11-11. With complete list of medal winners.
Unfortunately, IMSA publishes multiple articles about the inaugural meet under the dateline "June 21, 2011". The first Games were held during December, same as the 2nd to 4th Games of 2012 to 2014. The first four meetings occurring between 2011 and 2014, took place in Beijing during December.

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' (no date), International Mind Sports Association — early document posted at American Go Association
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SportAccord World Mind Games

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