2008 World Mind Sports Games

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 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 . International Mind Sports Association.Introduction of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games . 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" . FIDE (chess).China to host 2008 World Mind Sports Games . latestchess.com Thirty-five gold medals were contested by 2,763 competitors from 143 countries.2008 WMSG Results . 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 . World Bridge Federation (WBF). Retrieved 2011-05-24.

Events 35 set of medals : Bridge (9) Draughts (10) Chess (5) Go (6) Xiangqi (5)

Bridge

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 . won 22 of the 27 medals, led by Norway with six medals including two gold.

+ WMSG medalists in bridgeOpen TeamsWomen Teams United StatesOpen Individual Tor Helness Geir Helgemo Andrey GromovWomen Individual Catarina Midskog Anne-Fréderique Lévy Yan Ru Youth Individual Salih Murat Anter Radu Nistor Lars Arthur JohansenYouth Pairs Mehmet Remzi Şakirler / Melih Osman Şen Lotan Fisher / Ron Schwartz Joanna Krawczyk / Piotr Tuczyńskiunder-28 Teamsunder-26 Teamsunder-21 Teams

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 . WBF coverage of the bridge competitions. Retrieved 2011-05-24.

Chess

The World Chess Federation organized ten events in Beijing, all of them in rapid or blitz chess.

Men's Individual Blitz Martyn Kravtsiv Yuriy Drozdovsky Hristos BanikasWomen's Individual Blitz Alexandra Kosteniuk Antoaneta Stefanova Hou YifanMen's Individual Rapid Bu Xiangzhi Anton Korobov Zhang ZhongWomen's Individual Rapid Antoaneta Stefanova Zhao Xue Huang QianMixed Pairs Blitz Carlos Matamoros Franco / Martha Fierro Krishnan Sasikiran / Tania Sachdev Valeriy Aveskulov / Tatjana VasilevichMixed Pairs Rapid Ni Hua / Hou Yifan Đào Thiên Hải / Lê Kiều Thiên Kim Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami / Atousa PourkashiyanMen's Teams Blitz Hungary China UkraineWomen's Teams Blitz Russia VietnamMen's Teams Rapid UkraineWomen's Teams Rapid Ukraine Russia

Draughts

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) Alexander Georgiev Alexander Getmanski Guntis ValnerisInternational Draughts 100sq (Women) Zoja Golubeva Tanja Chub Tamara TansykkuzhinaRussian Draughts 64sq (Women) Viktoriya Motrichko Elena Miskova Julia RomanskaiaBrazilian Draughts 64sq (Men) Oleg Dashkov Ion Dosca Sergey BelosheevCheckers (Mixed) Alex Moiseyev Ron King Raivis Paegle

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 Individual Kang Dongyun 7pThe numbers and letters after the players' names refer to their professional or amateur ranks. Park Jungsang 9p Li Zhe 6pWomen's Individual Song Ronghui 1p Lee Minjin 5p Pak Chi-eun 9pOpen Jo Tae-Won 7d Ham Youngwoo 7d Lee Yong Hee 6dMen's Team South KoreaWomen's Team South KoreaPair Go Huang Yizhong 7p ／ Fan Weijing 2p Chou Chun-Hsun 9p ／ Hsieh Yi-Min 4p 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) Wang Yang Jiang Chuan Zhao RuquanIndividual (Women) Wang linna Zhao Guanfang Ngô Lan HươngIndividual (Men) Xu Yinchuan Hong Zhi Look KongdwaTeam (Women) Australia VietnamTeam (Men) Vietnam 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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