12th Mind Sports Olympiad
Horticultural Halls Conference Centre, Greycoat Street, London
15 – 25 August 2008
After 3 years of missing it, I finally decided to take part again at the Mind Sports Olympiad, that will take place in London between August 15 and 25.
The organizers found a new nice place in the center of London and promised a renewed administration and 99 different challanges, so I decided to go for it!
Let’s see if I’ll get some good results again: In any case I am sure I will have fun participating to as many competitions as possible (backgammon, poker, acquire, carcassonne, catan, nubble, continuo, rummikub, entropy, mastermind… and maybe something more)
Is there anybody that would like to join me to represent our country? Piero Zama… are you there? Devan Maggi? Where are you all, show yourself!
Dario De Toffoli
ITALIAN MEDALS
Acquire – Olympiad Championship
1 Tim Hebbes 
2 Chuck Smith 
3 Dario De Toffoli 
Carcassonne – Olympiad Championship
1 Mathew Cordell
2 Dario De Toffoli
3 David Pearce
Draughts – Draughts 8×8 English Go As You Please
1 David Harwood
2 Tony Boyle
3 Walter Celani
Draughts – Draughts 8×8 Olympiad Championship
1 Tony Boyle
1 Walter Celani
3 David Harwood
Mastermind – Mastermind Olympiad Championship
1 Dario De Toffoli
2 Lawrence Powell
3 Stephen Rowe
Nubble – Nubble Olympiad Championship
1 Mathew Cordell
2 Tim Hebbes
3 Dario De Toffoli
Poker – Poker : Omaha High (Pot Limit)
1 Jan Stastna 
2 Joey Ho 
3 Dario De Toffoli
Poker – Poker : Texas Hold’em (Pot Limit)
1 Dario De Toffoli
2 Josef Kollar
3 Martyn Hamer
Poker – Amateur World Championship
1 Dario De Toffoli
2 Martyn Hamer
Rummikub – Rummikub Olympiad Championship
1 Dario De Toffoli
2 Jin Meng 
3 Madeleine Heppell
Settlers of Catan Olympiad Championship
1 Dario De Toffoli
2 Alan Farrell
2 Madeleine Heppell