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MSO 2010
Don't miss out on the opportunity to win one of the major trophies on offer. Especially the
prestigous 2010 Pentamind and Abstract Games World Championships.
World Amateur Poker
Live poker open to everyone even under 18s.
We don't play for money just medals and the title of amateur World Champion!
MSO 14th was held in Soho London
The MSO was held in London, Soho Theatre, 21-30 August 2010.158 players from 22 countries took part and the overall winnerand World Pentamind 2010 Champion is the versatile Spanish Go Champion PACO GARCIA DE LA BANDA,who beat just by a hair's breadth the strong Estonian Andras Kuusk:
476.6/500 for Paco, 475.9 for Andreas.
The full results can be found here.
Our event was small this year but we still had 158 competitors from 22 countries. And we will very soon be putting up some stories about our ten days that finished.
Any kind of mental discipline was played, from Chess to Mental calculation, from Creative thinking,from Backgammon to Mastermind, for a total of 52 tournaments.
MSO 2011
Very soon we will have news about news about a bigger and better 15th edition, to be held in 2011.Don't despair if you missed this year as we have an annual tournament and we are already planning for the Mind Sports Olympiad 2011 and beyond. Sign-up to our newsletter. We have lots of information about games and past champions, and our website is continually growing.
The Mind Sports Olympiad - Official Website
The Mind Sports Olympiad is the home of intellectual pursuits. We run a yearly international tournaments combining events from a large number of mental disciplines. The MSO competition is open to everyone! We have a huge range of Games many that may bring you new and exciting challenges. These include the classicevents and tournaments. Cards, board, tile, hobby, dice are just some of the categories of event we offer.
For more details about the MSO and its history go to about us.
If you think that you are good at games, then it is time to think again! Byvisiting the Tournament part of our site.
The Mind Sports Olympiad gives out medals, awards and titles. We also run many World Championships. So if you areplaying for fun or want to see some of the best players of all-time, come and join us this August! The Results section has the full results and league tables from past years.
News
30th August 2010
Paco de la Banda wins the Pentamind
Spain has won the 2010 Pentamind for the first time with Paco winning the Entropy world championships in Entropy and Creative thinking. His other events were Go, Poker and mastermind
23rd August 2010
Turkmenistan Juniors storm the exchange
The exchange chess was dominated by the Juniors from Turmenistan. They achieved a 1st and 2nd.
23rd August 2010
Estonia win their first ever gold
On the opening day of the 14th MSO Andres Kuusk won Estonia’s first ever gold medal at the Mind sports
8th August 2010
MSO on facebook
You can now also find us on facebook
2nd August 2010
Less than 3 weeks to go
We are now into the Mind Sports Olympiad month with several past champions already signed-up. Don’t miss your opportunity to play in the 14th Mind Sports Olympiad.
2nd August 2010
First Newsletter Released
We are pleased to announce that our first ever Newsletter has been sent out.
2nd August 2010
Now taking online payments
Thanks, to the Soho theatre for allowing the MSO can now use their online booking and payment system. Details can be found on the tournament pages.
14th June 2010
ElasticHosts Sponsor MSO XIV
We would like to thank ElasticHosts www.elastichosts.com for their kind donation so becoming a sponsor of our competition.
5th June 2010
The MSO 2010 timetable is here
The timetable for the Mind sports Olympiad 2010 is ready and available. Some events are still to be 100 per cent confirmed and the final timetable will be confirmed in a couple of weeks time.
1st June 2010
MSO 2010 goes to Soho
We are happy to announce that the Mind Sports Olympiad 2010 will take place in Soho, Central London, England. The venue will be the Soho theatre and the finalised timetable will be up very soon.
2nd October 2009
Committee meeting set for London
Second MSO 2010 committee meeting on the 17th October to happen in London.
1st October 2009
Talking about Artificial Intelligene, MSO founder, Levi is the best again
Success of the Mind Sport's players has often gone beyond the Mind sports itself. David Levi has managed to win the highly prestigous 2009 Loebner prize. This prize has nothing to do with games or work in the community but is one of the most sought after awards in computing.He has forthe second time won for producing the most human like chatbot (a computer trying to pretend to be a human when having a conversation). Here we give somewhat belated congratulations on David triumphing with the most human computer this year.
19th September 2009
Bridge to return to the MSO
As part of the plans for 2010 we are happy to announce thta bridge will be making its return to the MSO with the forming of a new group just for the event.
17th September 2009
New Pentamind tie-breaks discussed
As part of the 2010 MSO organising committee meeting, new tie-breaks for the Pentamind were discussed so as to reduce the chances of a repeat of the 2009 Pentamind tie-break.
31st August 2009
MSO 2010 dates set
Dates for next Mind Sports Olympiad main event announced as 20th-30th August 2010.
31st August 2009
First ever Abstract Games Grandmaster awarded
As an event that had its inaugural competition last year, David Pearce's dominance not only allowed him to regain his title but also won him the rank of International Grandmaster.
31st August 2009
Stunning win of the Pentamind for Martyn Hamer!
In what must have been one of the biggest surprise results in MSO history Martyn Hamer has won the Pentamind despite Tim Hebbes having achieved the maximum possible score. On the final day of play Martyn managed to win Alfred's Wyke, a game new to the MSO this year and tie for the most coveted title. For the first time ever a tie-break was needed to decide the winner and Dario de Tofoli with a score that would have won in any other year walks away with the bronze medal.
30th August 2009
2009 Poker Amateur World Champion is David M. Pearce
Despite failing to regain his Pentamind World championship title, David Pearce has managed to add the Poker Amatuer World Champion title for the first time to his impressive list of victoires.The junior world title went to Matthew Hathrall.
30th August 2009
Perfect Pentamind Score for the First Time
Tim Hebbes the 2005 Pentamind World Champion has become the first player ever to achieve a perfect pentamind score of 500. Although, not the first time 5 golds have been won by a player in the same year, Tim's 100% in scrabble, chess, settlers of Catan, acquire and world championship in Lines of Action set a new record.
29th August 2009
Dekker uncrowned as Pacru World Champion
Alain Dekker had won the Pacru World Champion every year since it had been held but in a shock result Martyn Hamer stormed through to win the world title.