Mind Sports Olympiad

Mind Sports Olympiad
Tournament information
SportGames of mental skill
LocationLondon, England
Established1997
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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 by Mind Sports Organisation. The inaugural event was held in 1997 in London with £100,000 prize fund[1] and was described as possibly the biggest games festival ever held.[2]

The MSO was the first event of its kind[3] celebrating mental skills and awarding gold, silver and bronze medals for each event[4] and was highly influential on the mind sports movement and competitions that have followed since. The main MSO tournament has been held every year in England.[5][6]

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the first time, the entire MSO tournament was held online.[7]

  1. ^ Mind Sports Olympiad Supplement, The Times, 11 August 1997, online version available from studiogiochi MSO archives [1] Archived 28 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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  3. ^ Mind Sports Olympiad, The Manila Standard, 17 August 1997, [2] retrieved 16 July 2012
  4. ^ The Mind Sports Olympiad Supplement, The Times, July - August 1997
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference potters was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Underwater chess is one of the mind games at the Mind Sports Olympiad, The Toronto Star, Josh Tapper, 12 June 2012 [3] retrieved 12 July 2012
  7. ^ "Mind Sports Olympiad is coming soon". Retrieved 29 October 2021.