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The Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) is an annual international multi-disciplined competition and festival for games of mental skill and mind sports. The inaugural event was held in 1997 in London with £100,000 prize fund〔''Mind Sports Olympiad Supplement'', The Times, 11 August 1997, online version available from studiogiochi MSO archives ()〕 and was described as possibly the biggest games festival ever held.〔''The South Bank Brain Show'', The Independent, William Hartston, 21 June 1997, () retrieved 2 August 2009〕 The MSO was the first event of its kind〔''Mind Sports Olympiad'', The Manila Standard, 17 August 1997, () retrieved 16 July 2012〕 aiming to create an Olympics of the mind, awarding gold, silver and bronze medals for each event〔''The Mind Sports Olympiad Supplement'' s, The Times, July - August 1997〕 and highly influential on the mind sports movement and competitions that have followed since. The main MSO tournament has been held every year in England.〔''This time it's Personal'', The Guardian, Stephen Moss, 27 August 2007, http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2156846,00.html (error in link with javascript 14 July 2012)〕〔''Underwater chess is one of the mind games at the Mind Sports Olympiad'', The Toronto Star, Josh Tapper, 12 June 2012 () retrieved 12 July 2012〕 == History == The first Mind Sports Olympiad was held in London's Royal Festival Hall in 1997. It brought together an unprecedented number of strategy games and events. William Hartston in 'The Independent said, "The biggest gamesfest ever to hit these (or perhaps any other) shores".〔William Hartston, (The South Bank Brain Show ), ''The Independent'' 21 June 1997. Retrieved 2 August 2009〕 The inaugural MSO along with a very large number of games, introduced two new events of their own creation the Pentamind and the Decamentathlon. These were two events to parallel the multi-event games in athletics of the modern pentathlon and the decathlon. This was part of the ambition to create an Olympics of the mind. The Mind Sports Olympiad returned to London with sponsorship in both 1998〔''Sheehan on Bridge'', The Times, Robert Sheehan, 20 October 1998〕 and 1999.〔''Games: Bridge'', The Independent, Alan Hiron, 5 December 1999, () Retrieved 2 August 2009〕 Despite a falling out between the organisers〔''Britain's Mind Games end in debt and tears'', The Independent, Robert Mendick, 13 March 2001, (). Retrieved 31. July 2009〕 a successful event was held in Alexandra Palace the next year in 2000.〔''Fierce rivalry in 'Olympics' for brainboxes'', CNN, Paul Sussman, 24 August 2000 () retrieved 16 July 2012〕 During this time several satellite events were held around the world bearing the Mind Sports Olympiad name. These have occurred in Cambridge, England;〔''Uganda: Kampala Wins Gold'', AllAfrica.com, Norman Katende, 10 May 2002 () retrieved 16 July 2012〕 Singapore;〔MSO (Singapore) 2000 opening speech archived by Ministry of Education (Singapore),() retrieved 16 July 2012〕 Seoul, South Korea;〔''MSO Korean Contest Will be Held on July 22'', Korea JoongAng Daily, 14 July 1999 () retrieved 16 July 2012〕 Milan, Italy;〔Shogi results for MSO Italy 2000 (from shogi.net ) retrieved 16 July 2012〕 Oulu, Finland;〔Mind Sports Festival announcement (from chessbanter.com ) retrieved 16 July 2012〕 and Prague, The Czech Republic.〔''Looking Forward To The Mind Sports Olympiad'', Radio Praha, 17 September 2006, Jan Velinger, () retrieved 2 August 2009〕 The Mind Sports Olympiad main event continued to happen but without sponsorship the tournaments were held at a number of different universities. The event was still going strong for the years 2001 - 2006.〔''Cerebral Athletes Play Mind Games'', The Guardian, David Ward, 22 August 2005, () retrieved 2 August 2009〕 The main 2004 event featured a separate event for schools, featuring competitions and activities in chess, Go, quizzes and intelligence puzzles. But in 2007 the Mind Sports Olympiad was reduced to a much smaller venue in Potters Bar due to no sponsorship and no advertising.〔''This time it's Personal'', The Guardian, Stephen Moss, 27 August 2007, () retrieved 12 July 2012〕 In 2008 the MSO saw a revival returning to a central London venue, the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster and again on 21–31 August 2009〔''Cheam man's mind bending puzzles at mental olympiad'', Sutton Guardian, Kevin Barnesm, 28 August 2009, () retrieved 30 April 2011〕 The 2010 event was held at the Soho Theatre in London.〔 In 2011, the Mind Sports Olympiad moved to a bigger venue, the University of London Union.〔''Mind Sports Olympiad moves to bigger venue'', DigitalJournal.com, Alexander Baron, 3 May 2011, () retrieved 15 July 2012〕 The 16th MSO took place once again at the University of London Union in 18–27 August 2012, and similarly the 17th MSO was also at ULU.〔 The main MSO event〔 remains truly international,〔''MSO XV Pentamind'' article from (MSO website ) retrieved 12 July 2012〕 because it is still regarded as the foremost competition for all-rounders especially the "coveted Pentamind World Championship",〔 won in 2010 by Paco Garcia De La Banda from Spain,〔''Paco Garcia De La Banda wins the Mind Sports Olympiad XIV'' (translated from Spanish), elapuron.com, 11 September 2012, () retrieved 16 July 2012〕 while the 2011, 2013 and 2014 Pentamind World Champion Andres Kuusk is from Estonia.〔''Estonian Mind Athlete Wins World Championship'', ERR News, Ingrid Teesalu, 30 August 2011, () retrieved 6 September 2011〕 Chess Life, "the most widely read chess magazine in the world"〔''Chess History'', United States Chess Federation website () retrieved 12 July 2012〕 featured an article in February 2012 about in the inauguration of Diving Chess into the 2011 Mind Sports Olympiad.〔(archived scanned copy of Chess Life article )〕 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「Mind Sports Olympiad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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