International Mind Sports Association
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The International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) is an association of the world governing bodies for contract bridge, chess, draughts, eSports, go, xiangqi (Chinese chess), mahjong and card games.
Its members are the World Bridge Federation (WBF), World Chess Federation (FIDE), World Draughts Federation (FMJD), International Go Federation (IGF), World Xiangqi Federation (WXF), Mahjong International League (MIL), Federation of Card Games (FCG) and International Esports Federation (IESF). IMSA is an associate member of the Global Association of International Sports Federations,[1] and was founded on 19 April 2005 during the GAISF General Assembly.[2] It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
World Mind Sports Games
The IMSA formerly organized the World Mind Sport Games, whose first rendition was held in Beijing, China 3–18 October 2008 about two months after the Beijing Olympic Games. The second Games in 2012 would have been formally announced 17 November during the 2011 Mind Sports Festival in London, except that they failed to secure a venue by that time. However a venue was found in Lille in France and the second World Mind Sports Games was held from 9–23 August 2012.
Long term, it hopes to establish "World Mind Sports Games by analogy with Olympics, held in Olympic host cities shortly after Winter or Summer Games, using Olympic Games facilities and volunteers. The constituent World Bridge Federation incorporated several quadrennial world bridge championships in the World Mind Sport Games because it considers the WMSG a "stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the Summer and the Winter Olympics)".[3]
SportAccord World Mind Games
Under the auspices of SportAccord,[4] IMSA inaugurated the SportAccord World Mind Games December 2011 in Beijing.[5] For all sports, the meeting was invitational and the events were not world championships. Beside satisfaction of the participating players and federations, the main objectives were to achieve "a worldwide TV coverage, and a large participation to the online tournament linked to the event."[5]
The first four meetings occurring between 2011 and 2014, took place in Beijing during December.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ btcom. "GAISF » Members". Retrieved 2023-05-05.
- ^ "History | Uniting seven federations of the traditional mind sports : Chess, Bridge, Draughts, Go and Xiangqi with over 500 National Associations and close to one billion players". www.imsaworld.com. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
- ^ World Bridge Games. World Bridge Federation (worldbridge.org). Retrieved 2011-05-27. Archived December 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Now dissolved since November 2022.
- ^ a b "Great Success of the 2011 SportAccord World Mind Games" Archived 2012-10-08 at the Wayback Machine. IMSA (imsaworld.com). [December 2011]. Retrieved 2014-11-11. With complete list of medal winners.
Unfortunately, IMSA publishes multiple articles about the inaugural meet under the dateline "June 21, 2011". The first Games were held during December, same as the 2nd to 4th Games of 2012 to 2014. [citation needed] "Great Success of the 2011 SportAccord World Mind Games | IMSA - International Mind Sports Association". Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)