{"id":19629,"date":"2018-03-29T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studiogiochi.com\/?page_id=19629"},"modified":"2018-09-11T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:48:59","slug":"mso-2003","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/en\/mind-sports-olympiad\/mso-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"MSO 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; el_class=&#8221;download&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3347&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]\n<h6 class=\"download-title\">Download<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/files\/studiogiochi.com\/2018\/03\/MSO2003-Programma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/files\/studiogiochi.com\/2018\/03\/MSO2003-OlympiadNews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympiad news <\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11387&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;MSO 2003&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1518087796239-ef82228a-5663ad55-d34b&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mind Sports Olympiad was born in 1997. For 5 years it took place in London, and then, in order not to disappear, at the Loughborough University, near Nottingham. Now, at its seventh edition, it found a new home at the Manchester Conference Centre, in the city so well known by the Italians because of its great soccer team. The duration is again 10 days (from the 16th to the 25th of August) and in program there are more than 100 Tournaments of about 50 different games. Challenges of any kind, from the most classic ones (chess, backgammon, draughts, go) to the modern ones (Settlers of Catan, Lost cities, Rummikub, Master Mind), to mental challanges (mental calculation, Intelligence tests). This movement, born as the Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) generated much more smaller events in other countries; among them the &#8220;Giochi Sforzeschi&#8221; of Milan (Italy) that take place in December. The David Levy and other founder&#8217;s bet is this: the XX Century was characterized by an immense development of games for the body, the sports that have gradually become a social phenomenon without comparison, the XXI Century will witness the development, on a mass level, of the Mind sports. And we&#8217;re not just talking about chess and bridge: we really hope to see a flourishing of these disciplines. I have already booked the plane!<\/p>\n<p>A quote from the second page of the <a href=\"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/files\/studiogiochi.com\/p\/532\/img\/MSO2003 - OlympiadNews.pdf\">Olympiad News<\/a>, which concerns us:<br \/>\n<em><strong>MSO TRIVIA<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is a particular MSO achievement which is shared by Dario De Toffoli, John Clark, Robert Fountain and &#8211; perhaps surprisingly &#8211; to the best of our knowledge, nobody else. (Anne Jones has been denied this achievement through no fault of her own). Your question is: what is this achievement? Answer in 2004 (No prizes &#8211; just for fun!).<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Italian medals&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1518087796300-a92bca97-3e60ad55-d34b&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ITALIAN MEDALS<\/strong><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Acquire &#8211; Olympiad Championship<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Dario De Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n2 Martin Burroughs <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n3 George Hall <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n<p><strong>Backgammon &#8211; Manchester Blitz<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Irving Czechowicz <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n2 Uldis Lapikens <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n3 Simonetta Barone <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n<p><strong>Diplomacy &#8211; Olympiad Championship<\/strong><br \/>\n1 George Hassabis <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n2 Demis Hassabis <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n3 Dario De Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n<p><strong>Pentamind &#8211; Olympiad Championship<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Demis Hassabis <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n2 Dario De Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 David Pearce <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n<p><strong>Poker &#8211; Texas Hold&#8217;em<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Dario De Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n2 Daniel Gormally <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/ch.png' alt= 'Switzerland' \/>\n3 Ben Player <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n<p><strong>Rummikub &#8211; UK Championship<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Harri Bungay <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n2 Jenny Corfe <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/gb.png' alt= 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' \/>\n3 Dario De Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/4\" el_class=\"download\"][vc_single_image image=\"3347\" img_size=\"full\"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Download Program Olympiad news [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"3\/4\"][vc_single_image image=\"11387\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=\"MSO 2003\" tab_id=\"1518087796239-ef82228a-5663ad55-d34b\"][vc_column_text] The Mind Sports [...]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":11200,"menu_order":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19629","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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