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Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide
P.O. Box 13388, London NW3 5FB, England
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Company Press Release:
Wednesday, August 22, 2001 | |
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5th Mind Sports Olympiad
Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Teenage World Champion!
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Koichi Nicholas, (17) became the new Lines of
Action World Champion today, defeating a wide
international field. Victory was assured after his win over
defending World Champion, Grandmaster Fred Kok from
the Netherlands.
Michael Handel dropped just half a point to win
the Othello 10x10 World Championship. Fellow
Englishman Ian Turner took him close and did
enough to stay ahead of Japanese challenger Osamu
Omadera.
Netherlands were the clear winners in the Olympiad
Shogi Team Handicap Match. Mathijs Litjens 100%
record enabling his team to stay clear of 2nd
placed France.
English pack is beginning to close on the Indian Leaders
In the Ron Banwell Commonwealth Chess Championships,
International Masters Danny Gormally and Colin
Crouch stepped up a gear, overpowering their opponents
with Black in a fine display of attacking chess. They join
the chasing pack half point behind the leaders Abhijit
Kunte and Pentalya Harikrishna. Norm aspirant
Andrew Bigg crushed International Master Andrew Webster.
The Entropy and Twixt World Championships start on
Thursday 23rd August. Defending Twixt World
Champion Klaus Hausman expects his strongest challenger
to be Pentamind expert and Entropy World Champion, Demis
Hassabis.
Memorising entire packs of cards, a series of unrelated
words and numbers and a poem will be some of the tasks
facing competitors in the Olympiad Memory Skills
event on Thursday 23rd August 2001.
The Pentamind challenge, for competitors who play in 5 or
more events, is warming up. The best five results across
all the Olympiad events count towards this title. Demis
Hassabis, last year's gold medallist, is trailing
multi-talented Czech Jan Stastna and Swede Jan
Palmgren. Demis' best two events are still to come.
Daily Reports on all events, daily bulletins and photos
from the 5th MSO can be viewed at
www.msoworld.com.
(Updated daily). Over 1500 entries already taken from
50 countries.
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.
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