World Mind Sports Games 2008: News and Results

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The China National Convention Center in Beijing was the venue for the competitors in four mind sports: Chess, Bridge, Draughts and Xiangqi (Chinese Chess); Go was at the nearby Beijing International Conference Center.

Team Lists

The official results and team list web site showed that including officials the partipants were:

Bridge 2591
Chess 654
Go 714
Draughts 259
Xiangqi 194

China had the biggest team, naturally, at 480, but mostly Bridge players. France had 109, USA and Russia 108, Chinese Taipei 107 and Netherlands 102. The combined UK team (including separate England, Wales and Scotland teams in some events) was 109 and there were 39 from Ireland.

Smallest teams with one player each were Honduras, American Samoa, St Martin, Nepal and Surinam. There were 126 teams in all.

The Go total was made up of 570 players from 61 countries, ranging in strength from 20 kyu (novice) to 9 dan pro and the rest officials, team captains, coaches and support team members.

The Irish Go Team consisted of just John Gibson. See the other pages for details of the UK Go (BGA) team.

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