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Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide
P.O. Box 13388, London NW3 5FB, England
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Company Press Release:
Sunday, August 19, 2001 | |
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5th Mind Sports Olympiad
Sunday 19th August 2001
New Mental Calculations World Record Set.
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John Rickard, the new Mental Calculations World
Open Champion, astounded fellow competitors with his
record score - 741/750. In 4 gruelling hours John
Rickard answered 126 questions out of 128 correctly. This
awesome feat involved calculating simple problems such as
the following: no calculators and no jottings permitted
- Multiply 674421 * 56434
- Prime Factors of 80862353.
- Calculate to 2 decimal places the 5th root of 20000.
- On what day of the week was the 3rd September 1939?
Nigerian National Scrabble Player, Femi Awowade won
the first Gold for Nigeria in the Olympiad Scrabble,
while 11 Year old Austin Shin finished high up in the
top section.
Tezuka Hirohisa from Japan demolished the opposition
in the 8 by 8 Othello Blitz World Championship. The
more testing 10 by 10 Othello World Championship starts
tomorrow.
Thomas Fenner (Germany) won the Abalone World
Championship, ahead of Czech Jan Stastna and
Frenchman Arthur Lallet. Englishman David Pearce
took 5th place.
Matthew Macfadyen strode through the Go 19 by
19 Olympiad Championship as if it was a warm up
demonstration match for his British Go Championship Title
Match.
10 Year old Jonathan Miller remained poker faced,
playing his cards right to claim the junior prize in the
Olympiad 5 Card Draw Poker. Father George Miller
took the Gold.
Spectators and non-professional players of many
disciplines enjoyed the many new games on display today.
Don Green, inventor of Octi, demonstrated and
taught his game while juniors soon outmanoeuvred adults to
win in the "Learn and Play" competitions.
Other competitors showing Beginner's luck included
Elizabeth Barker, who after winning the Beginner's
tournament yesterday found herself in the playoff for the
medals in the Olympiad Backgammon this evening.
The Commonwealth Chess Championships progressed
calmly with 21 people sharing the lead on 1.5/2. The
tournament remains wide open.
Watch out for the Continuo World Championship,
the Speed Reading World Championship and the
World Intelligence Championships - all starting tomorrow.
All press enquiries to Andrew Webster on tel: 07973 516718
fax: 020 7815 7168 e-mail
andy@tcs-chess.demon.co.uk or
write to 5th MSO, 51 Borough Way, Potters Bar, EN6 3HA.
Answers:
- 38060274714
- 11,13,17,29,31,37
- 7.25
- Sunday - the start of World War II
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