IMSA Elite Mind Games

The IMSA Elite Mind Games (IEMG) has featured five mind sports as official disciplines – Bridge, Chess, Draughts, Go, and Xiangqi.

IEMG is a re-branded event of SportAccord World Mind Games, which was hosted in Beijing four times annually from 2011 to 2014. As SportAccord went through restructuring and became unable to host World Mind Games, IMSA (the International Mind Sports Association), the co-organizer of the SportAccord World Mind Games, took responsibility and succeeded in bringing the event back under the new title. It is expected that IEMG will continue to be held on an annual basis as a major mind-sport event.
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Officers and Players at the 2nd IMSA Elite Mind Games – Huai’an, China

2017 Huai'an, China

Huai’an, China 9-15 december 2017- Four teams in the Open and four in the Women were invited for the first edition of this event: China, USA, France and Bulgaria in the Open, China, USA, England and Sweden in the Women.
Teams competition is played, in each category, as a double round robin of 16 board matches followed by a 48 board final and third-place play-off. Pairs competitions: 12 pairs playing four sessions of 22 boards. Individual Competitions: 24 players played 23×3 board rounds.

Individual

Open

1. Jianwei Li (China)
2. Lixin Yang (China)
3. Herve Vinciguerra (France)

Women’s

1. Qi Shen (China)
2. Sally Brock (England)
3. Yan Huang (China)

Open Pairs

1. Yunlong Chen – Zhao Jie (China)
2. Jianming Dai – Lixin Yang (China)
3. Jerome Rombaut – Vanessa Reess (France)

Women’s Pairs

1. Wenfei Wang – Qi Shen (China)
2. Sally Brock and Fiona Brown (England)
3. Kerri Sanborn – Hjordis Eythorsdottir (USA)

Teams

Open

1. France (Thomas Bessis, Marc Bompis, Herve Vinciguerra, Cedric Lorenzini, Jerome Rombaut and Vanessa Reess)
2. Bulgaria
3. USA

Women’s

1. Sweden (Kathrine Bertheau, Sanna Clementsson, Ida Gronkvist, Jessica Larsson, Cecilia Rimstedt, Sandra Rimstedt)
2. USA
3. China

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2016 Huai'an, China

Four teams in the Open and four in the Women were invited for the first edition of this event. The four are China, Bulgaria, Poland and Sweden in the Open, China, England, France and Netherlands in the Women – in each case the host nation plus the three most successful countries at last year’s world championships whose team was able to make the trip.
Teams competition is played, in each category, as a double round robin of 16-board matches followed by a 48-board final and third-place play-off. Pairs competitions: 12 pairs playing four sessions of 22 boards. Individual Competitions: 24 players will play 23 x 3-board rounds.

Teams
Open:
1. POLAND – Krzysztof Jassem, Piotr Gawrys, Wlodzimierz Starkowski, Stanislaw Golebiowski, Michal Klukowski, Marcin Mazurkiewicz
2. SWEDEN – Tommy Bergdahl, Niklas Warne, Frederic Wrang, Johan Sylvan, Johan Upmark, Fredrik Nyström
3. CHINA – Chen Gang, Hou Xu, Hu Linlin, Kang Meng, Li Xiaoyi, Liu Jing, Sun Shaolin

Women:
1. FRANCE – Sylvie Willard, Bénédicte Cronier Nathalie Frey, Catherine D’Ovidio, Jennifer Mourgues Anne-Laure Huberschwiller
2. CHINA – Li Yiting, Zhang Yu, Shen Qi Wang Wenfei, Wang Hongli, Yan Ru
3. ENGLAND – Sally Brock, Nicola Smith, Nevena Senior, Fiona Brown

Pairs
Open:
1. Wlodzimierz Starkowski & Stanislaw Golebiowski (POL)
2. Fredrik Nystrom & Johan Upmark (SWE)
3. Xiaoyi Li & Linlin Hu (CHN)

Women:
1. Yan Huang & Nan Wang (CHN)
2. Qi Shen & Wen Fei Wang (CHN)
3. Nevena Senior & Wen Hu (ENG-CHN) Yu Zhang & Hongli Wang (CHN)

Individual
Open:
1. Vladimir Mihov (BUL)
2. Michal Klukowski (POL)
3. Vladislav Isporski (BUL)

Women:
1. Jet Pasman (NED)
2. Carla Arnolds (NED)
3. Sally Brock (ENG)

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