The
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, xiangqi (Chinese chess), and mahjong. Its members are the World Bridge Federation (WBF), Worl ...
(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 meets, 2011 to 2014, were all held in Beijing during December.
Events
Source : http://www.worldbridge.org/competitions/the-international-events-partecipated-by-the-wbf/sportaccord-world-mind-games/
* http://db.worldbridge.org/Repository/tourn/Beijing.11/Beijing11.htm - 2011
* http://db.worldbridge.org/Repository/tourn/Beijing.12/Beijing12.htm - 2012
* http://db.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/beijing.13/microsite/Results.htm - 2013
* http://db.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/beijing.14/microsite/results.htm - 2014
Results
Bridge
There were six medal events at bridge, three each for men and women. IMSA invited 24 players, six each from four countries, to compete in three small tournaments as four national teams, twelve pairs, and 24 individuals. The women were from England (competing as "Great Britain"), France, China, and the United States ("USA"); the men from Netherlands, Norway, China, and the U.S.[
China and the United States (USA) have participated in every one of the 4-country men's and women's fields. The other participants have been members of the ]European Olympic Committee
The European Olympic Committees is an organisation based in Rome, Italy, consisting of 50 National Olympic Committees from the continent of Europe.EOC members include transcontinental countries Turkish Olympic Committee, Turkey and Russian Olympic ...
, including England in every women's field (under the name "Great Britain" in 2011 and 2012).[
Five players participated in all the first four meets: Shi Haojun of China men; Fiona Brown, ]Heather Dhondy
Heather may refer to:
Plants
*The heather family, or Ericaceae, particularly:
**Common heather or ling, ''Calluna''
**Various species of the genus ''Cassiope''
**Various species of the genus ''Erica''
Name
* Heather (given name)
* Heather (su ...
, and Nevena Senior
Brian R. Senior (born 1953) is a professional bridge player and writer from Nottingham. He has represented Great Britain, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland in international competition and has won all the major English Bridge Union competiti ...
of England women; and Lynn Deas
Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time.
De ...
of USA women.
Several reigning open and women teams world champion countries have participated, not always with the champion teams intact. (As usual, all players on the relevant open world champion teams were men.)
: B - world champions, Bermuda Bowl
The Bermuda Bowl is a biennial contract bridge world championship for national . It is contested every odd-numbered year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Venice Cup (women), the d'Orsi Senior Bowl and the Wuh ...
2011 (Italy won in 2013)
: V - world champions, Venice Cup
The Venice Cup is a biennial world championship contract bridge tournament for national of Women. It is contested every odd-number year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Bermuda Bowl (Open) and d'Orsi Bowl (S ...
2011, 2013
: W - world champions, World Mind Sports Games 2008, 2012 (Italy won the open in 2008)
* http://db.worldbridge.org/2013-sportaccord-mind-games.aspx
See also
* World Mind Sports 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 i ...
References
External links
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World Mind Sports Games
' (no date), International Mind Sports Association — early document posted at American Go Association
second copy
at World Bridge Federation
2008wmsg.org
— evidently unofficial
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Mind sports competitions
Multi-sport events
2011 establishments in China
2014 disestablishments in China
Recurring sporting events established in 2011
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2014