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The second World Mind Sports Games convened in Lille, France, 9–23 August 2012—two weeks, Thursday to Thursday〔 They were sponsored by the International Mind Sports Association. ==Overview== Competition began Friday morning, 10 August. Much diminished from the first games, there were but three WMSG medal events (Open, Women, and Seniors national teams), with a secondary world championship and a side event during the second week. The World Bridge Federation now calls the three WMSG medal events the "World Bridge Games", a moniker that retroactively covers the World Teams Olympiad, quadrennial 1960 to 2004. So these were the 14th World Bridge Games accompanied by the 5th World Transnational Mixed Teams Championship. (Daily Bulletin, Issue 1 (opening ceremonies), 10 August 2012 ) Chess was represented by demonstration events only—no medals. Go and xiangqi about the same as 2008 with five medal events each. The draughts program was much expanded with 16 medal events, more than half the total. Some of the bridge events that constituted the first Games were contested during the immediately preceding Youth meet in August 2012. The World Masters Individual tournaments, one open and one for women, were simply dropped. (contested biennially, then quadrennially, about ten times in all). IMSA president José Damiani opened the games Thursday evening, 9 August. He is former WBF president to 2010. (from 1986?) The main events proceeded in parallel with five days (5+ for the Seniors) of round-robin play in groups—three 16-deal matches daily—followed by four rounds of two-day knockout matches (96 deals)—except the Open final, three days and 128 deals. Most teams comprised six players in three regular pairs. There were exceptions. Two pairs played all 16 round-robin matches for the Hungary seniors, and continued on to win the gold medal. (One pair of Reunion seniors also played every deal and some teams comprised five players rather than six.) (footnote here and elsewhere: The generally non-playing Hungary captain did play the final session of the first knockout match, which commenced with a 200–59 lead vs. Singapore.) The gold-medal winning Hungary seniors were one exception, the only one in the medal round of 12 semifinalists, with five players. == Events == The contract bridge component of the 2nd Games was reduced to two events, down from nine for bridge at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games. The World Bridge Federation (WBF) sponsored two other world championship events in both instances, for national Seniors Teams and transnational Mixed Teams (which field male–female pairs only). Open, Women, and Youth Individual events and under-28 Teams were not repeated. Youth Pairs, u-26 Teams, and u-21 Teams were contested at separate all-Youth meets—along with u-26 Girls Teams, which was not part of the 1st Games. Numbers of entries: 60, 43, 34 () and 84 () Generally down from the preceding Games: 71, 54, 32 () and 120 () Vanderbilt Trophy (open flight, introduced 1960) previously won by Italy 6, France 4, Poland, Brazil and USA 1 each. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bridge at the 2012 World Mind Sports Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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