

30th August 2022
For the 6th time Senior World Pentamind Champion!
And 6th in the overall ranking, with 8 medals (5/1/2), ahead of incredible players I thought I couldn’t beat anymore. In the podium with me Riccardo Gueci and Piero Zama: three old Italian men proved (with their 207 years and 21 medals) that the is no age limit to enjoy playing and competing against the best players in the world.
Andres Kuusk, from Estonia, won the Pentamind for the 5th time, ahead of Maciej Brzeski and Ankusk Khandelwal.
Italy was 2nd as a country with an astonishing result of 36 medals (13/7/16).
Much more detailed chronicles to follow soon… now a plane to catch.
Dario De Toffoli
19th August 2022
Here we are, after 3 difficult years the MSO are back live, from 21 to 29 August 2022, in the usual JW3 venue in London.
And we’ll be there!
In fact, Italy will participate with a real team, perhaps the most competitive they have ever fielded.
There will be the three relentless old men who are not yet ready for the hospice and will try to compete in as many tournaments as possible: obviously I’m talking about myself, Riccardo Gueci and Piero Zama.
Daniele Ferri will be present to manage his beloved Vegetables and to reaffirm his supremacy in the Rummikub.
There will be Andrea Muzii, super champion of Memory, perhaps accompanied by other exponents of the newborn Italian school.
The abstract specialists, Francesco Salerno and Maurizio De Leo will be present.
There will be Paolo Ciuccatosti with his team of “eurogamers”: Stefano Teatini, Alessandro Calamida, G. Aprea and Eleonora Sisci.
And maybe others will add on later!
In short, without flattering ourselves, there are reasonable hopes for a good haul of medals.
In the meantime, here is the program, registrations will open shortly and – hopefully – the modalities of each individual tournament will be communicated.
Dario De Toffoli
| ITALIAN PLAYERS MEDAL TABLE | ||||||
| N. | NAME | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL | |
| 1 | Dario De Toffoli | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |
| 2 | Riccardo Gueci | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| 3 | Piero Zama | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| 4 | Daniele Ferri | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 5 | Paolo Ciuccatosti | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 6 | Francesco Salerno | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Stefano Marchetto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | Maurizio De Leo | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
| 9 | Cosimo Cardellicchio | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Daniele Vergine | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 11 | Stefano Cavicchi | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| TOTAL | 13 | 7 | 20 | 40 | ||
MEDALS BY EVENT
7 Wonders Duel
Abalone
Acquire
Backgammon Cumulative (best 5)
Chess – Atomic
Colour Chess WC
Continuo WC
Cribbage Pairs
Cribbage Singles
Dominoes 5s & 3s
Draughts
Hive
Memory – Marathon
Memory – Overall Championship
Mensa Connections
Oware
Patchwork
Pentamind (Senior)
Perudo (Liar’s Dice)
Poker – 7 Card Stud
Poker – Amateur Championship
Poker – London Lowball
Poker – Omaha
Poker – Texas Holdem
Puerto Rico
Rummikub
Stratego Duel WC
Stratego Classic
Trench WC
Twixt WC
VEGEtables
CHRONICLES FROM THE BOARDS
Mind Sports Olympiad XXVI
LONDON – 21th-29th August 2022
Most of texts are available only in Italian
PHOTOS
VIDEOS
Complete closing ceremony and medals (37′ 30″)
The full Italian podium of Senior Pentamind (2′ 01″)
































