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Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd.
12 St. James' Square, London SW1Y 4RB, England
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Company Press Release:
Wednesday, November 17, 1999 | |
The brightest stars shine at msoworld.com
Mind Sports Stars, Raymond Keene (OBE) and Tony Buzan will be
making guest appearances in the chat room of MSO Worldwide's new
web site at www.msoworld.com to
mark the beginning of MSO's "Brain Star Chats" series.
Raymond Keene (OBE) will be participating in a chat on
Sunday November 28th from 9 to 11 pm GMT (4-6 pm EST).
He is "The Times" chess correspondent, a chess grandmaster,
lecturer and consultant to governments and leading businesses on
Mind Sports and their application to analytic, creative and
strategic thinking. He has recently lectured to audiences as
diverse as the Liechtenstein Global Trust, the House of Commons,
the Tate Gallery, Amoco and the Korean government. Raymond holds
the world record for the number of published books on Chess and
thinking skills (102 and counting) and his columns on Chess, Mind
Sports, thinking and IQ appear weekly in "The Times", "The Sunday
Times", and "The Spectator". He has organised numerous national and
international Mind Sports events and two World Chess Championship matches.
Tony Buzan's chat is scheduled for
Sunday December 5th from 9 to 11 pm GMT (4-6 pm EST).
He is the world's leading author, lecturer and advisor on learning
and thinking skills and the originator of the Mind Mapping thinking
tool. Among his 82 best-selling books, the classic Use Your Head
has catapulted him to the position of the BBC's number one selling
international author. Tony's other initiatives include the
foundation of the Brain Trust Charity, the £30,000 Brain of the
Year award and the co-founding of the Mind Sports Olympiad, with
its key perception that mental skills and disciplines can be
transformed into both sporting contests and educational activities.
Tony and his Buzan Centres have clients around the world, including
numerous multi-national corporations.
The MSO web site, first introduced just before the last Mind
Sports Olympiad in August, now regularly receives over 20,000
hits per day with those numbers climbing. Participants can play
free games online such as Chess, Checkers, Reversi/Othello,
Japanese Chess (Shogi) and Chinese Chess (Xiangqi). There is
also a hugely popular "Mindzine", message boards, regular chats,
interviews, links to other mind sports related sites and much more
to interest the Mind Sports enthusiast.
"We're very excited about the incredible response the site has
received in so little time," says David Levy, the company's Games
Director, "It encourages us to continue the work we've begun and
serves as an inspiration for the next Mind Sports Olympiad. We'll
be having many more of these chats in the future."
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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