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Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd.
12 St. James' Square, London SW1Y 4RB, England
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Company Press Release:
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What do Catherine Zeta Jones and a plum have in common?
Quite a lot actually!
Apart from the obvious, the potential answers can be manifold when you compete in the
Mind Sports Olympiad's Creative Thinking Championship.
From beginners to experts, the thinking athletes of the world will come
together for the third annual Mind Sports Olympiad (M.S.O.) which will
be held during August 21-29 at London's Olympia Conference Centre.
Scientist estimate that we use less than 1% of our brain's
potential - every day! The athletes competing in this year's
Olympiad are an astonishing example of what can be achieved with
a bit of Brain power. Try memorising Pi to 42,195 digits
like Hiroyuki Goto of Tokyo or reading 3,850 words per minute
like Sean Adam, the current holder of the world record for speed-reading.
Everybody has the capacity to increase their Brain Power.
Former World Memory Champion, Dominic O'Brien, is banned from casinos
because of his amazing ability to recall cards, but when he was a schoolboy,
he was always in trouble with his teachers for his appalling memory!
Demis Hassabis, 23, one of the youngest multi-millionaires in the UK, was a Chess Master at 12 and winner of eight medals at the 1998 Mind Sports Olympiad, including Gold in the Pentamind - a tournament in which entrants compete in 5 or more games or skills. Next year, Demis will more than match the earning power of Hollywood's highest paid stars!
Speaking of Stars..... the Stars of the Mind Sports Olympiad have more in
common with their Hollywood counterparts than one might think. Both
Madonna and Sharon Stone have IQs in the genius range!
The 1999 Mind Sports Olympiad features classic games such as
Chess, Go, Bridge and Poker, international games such
as Xiang Qi and real brain teasers like
the Creative Thinking Championship and
the World Memory Championship. The M.S.O. will
comprise 40 major Mind sports with over 5000 entrants
from 60 countries competing for £100,000 in prize money.
Mind Sports Stars are available for interview including Demis Hassabis
and Tony Buzan (co-founder of Mind Sports Olympiad and creator of
the Mind Mapping technique).
For further information and M.S.O. Star interview requests, please
contact Jackie Cooper PR (contact details deleted - contact
David Levy at the address below instead.)
- Both have had a ripe old time in the sun.
- Once you get through the first layers, both are soft and juicy.
- Michael Douglas nibbled on both.
- Both have delicious curves.
- Both have landed plum roles.
- Both could find themselves in a jam.
- Both could first be noticed in the buds of May.
ABOUT MSO
Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd. of London, England, is the
organiser of the Mind Sports Olympiad. This annual event encompasses more
than 30 classic games including Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Go as well as
several mental skills such as Memory Skills, Creative Thinking,
Intelligence and Speed Reading. Players compete for the honour of winning
Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, rankings and titles, and for cash prizes.
The company was founded by well known mind sports personalities, Tony
Buzan, Raymond Keene and David Levy. MSO Worldwide's website at
http://www.msoworld.com/ was created to help achieve their goal of
spreading Mind Sports throughout the real and virtual worlds. That web site
is now well on its way to becoming one of the premier mind sports sites on
the web, having recently won a Netscape "Cool Siting" award.
Media Contact:
David Levy, Tel: +44 20 7435 9496 –
E-mail: dlevy@msoworld.com
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