Promoting Go in the UK and beyond
1st World Mind Sports Games
The 1st World Mind Sports Games are being held in Beijing, China from 3rd to 18th October 2008. The event was instigated by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) and is being organised by the Board and Card Games Administrative Center of the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sport.
It is expected that more than 2500 players from 150 countries and regions will participate in the games as well as more than 600 staff members (officials, coaches and referees). Five sports are involved - Go, Bridge, Chess, Chinese Chess and Draughts. There are 6 gold medals for Go: Mens and Womens Individual, Open Individual (no professionals allowed), Mens and Womens Teams and Pair Go.
The British Go Association is planning to send as strong a team as possible to the event with a maximum of 12 men and 8 women taking part, in addition to a Team captain and another representative/coach. The BGA Council has appointed a Committee of Toby Manning (chair) and Jon Diamond to be responsible for the organisation of the BGA’s participation in this important event.
The Chinese hosts are providing accommodation and food in China free of charge to all participants. They are, thanks to Air China, also supplying a small number of airline tickets free of charge. Thus there will be significant travel, uniform and other costs which the BGA cannot fund and will therefore fall on the players. In order to ensure the best players are available we are fundraising to help with these costs - more information and how to donate.
The Official Logo and Slogan of the 1st Mind Sports Games was released in April.
More detail on the background to this event is available in the list of documents below.
New information will appear on this page when it is available.