Mind Sports Olympiad

You must have heard of the Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics and the Para-Olympics now it's time for you guys to be introduced to some thing mind blowing: MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD!!! (ik its olympiad but hey half of the letters are same.)

Mind Olympics? What is it? you may ask.

The Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) is an annual international multi-disciplined competition and festival for games of mental skill and mind sports.

FUN FACT:

The inaugural event was held in 1997 in London with £100,000 prize fund and was described as possibly the biggest games festival ever held.

The MSO was the first event of its kind celebrating mental skills and awarding gold, silver and bronze medals for each event and was highly influential on the mind sports movement and competitions that have followed since. The main MSO tournament has been held every year in England.

So what kind of games do you play at Mind Sport Olympics:

(Some notable games)

• Chess

• Bridge

• Draughts

• Shogi

• Backgammon

• Chinese Chess (Xiangqi)

• Othello

• Poker

• Cribbage

• Mastermind

• Abalone

• Boku

• Continuo

• Entropy

• Kamisado

• Lines of Action (LOA)

• Pacru

• TwixT

Some of these games are which we have been playing since our school day. Interesting right?

So what do you think about MSO? Will you if get a chance take part in mind olympics?