{"id":19687,"date":"2018-04-03T18:51:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studiogiochi.com\/?page_id=19687"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T08:08:29","slug":"mso-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/en\/mind-sports-olympiad\/mso-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"MSO 2017"},"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;3346&#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\/04\/TTG10-Dario-de-Toffoli.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 2017: Tabletop gaming, interview with Dario De Toffoli<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13589&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;MSO 2017&#8243; tab_id=&#8221;1518087796239-ef82228a-56635aed-a287&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0XXI\u00a0Edition of the Mind Sports Olympiad will took place\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>London,\u00a0<\/strong>at JW3 in Finchley Road,<strong>\u00a0from<\/strong><strong>\u00a0August\u00a0<\/strong><strong>20 to 28\u00a0<\/strong><strong>2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msoworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><br \/>\nCLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE MSO<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/files\/studiogiochi.com\/p\/813\/img\/TTG10%20Dario%20de%20Toffoli.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tabletop gaming\u00a0<\/strong><strong>review,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>interview with Dario De Toffoli<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/attivita\/mind-sports-olympiad\/mso-2017\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below you can find the\u00a0<strong>complete program<\/strong>. For more detailes visit\u00a0MSO\u00a0official website at this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msoworld.com\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>http:\/\/www.msoworld.com\/events\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sempre pi\u00f9 ricco il programma dei tornei, sempre pi\u00f9 difficile la scelta di quelli cui partecipare.<br \/>\nCome vedrete c&#8217;\u00e8 spazio per tutti, anche per i board-gamer e spero che questa volta ne arrivino pi\u00f9 copiosi.<br \/>\nIo naturalmente ci sar\u00f2, assieme a Riccardo Gueci, Daniele Ferri e &#8211; spero &#8211; Cosimo Cardellicchio\u2026 ma sarebbe tempo che forze nuove si affacciassero.<br \/>\nQuesto il mio programma di massima; nella prima colonna i tornei in cui penso di partecipare, nelle seguenti i tornei cui devo rinunciare.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13591&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eventuali modifiche le decider\u00f2 durante la competizione, in relazione ad eventuali esigenze tattiche dell&#8217;intera competizione che si dovessero presentare.<br \/>\nPenso rinuncer\u00f2 al Mastermind (contemporaneo al Rummikub) e all&#8217;Oware (contemporaneo ad Hard&amp;Tortoise)\u2026 e sono rinunce dolorose!<br \/>\nTorner\u00f2 a giocare a Catan dopo parecchi anni e non senza una certa ansia.<br \/>\nOltre a vari irrinunciabili appuntamenti prover\u00f2 anche un paio di giochi per me nuovi: VegeTables e Kings Cribbage.<br \/>\nIl mio obiettivo minimo dichiarato \u00e8 raggiungere la medaglia numero 100 (ora sono a 97!), dopodich\u00e9 tenter\u00f2 di difendere il titolo di Pentamind Senior (over 60) che ora detengo\u2026 ma Riccardo \u00e8 in agguato!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ecco invece il programma di larga massima dei cinque italiani che finora hanno aderito alla manifestazione:<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13593&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Program<br \/>\n<\/strong>D \u2013 double session, full day: 10.15am to 6pm (lunch break 1.30pm-2.15pm)<br \/>\nAM \u2013 morning events: 10.15am to 1.45pm<br \/>\nPM \u2013 afternoon events: 2.15pm to 6pm<br \/>\nN \u2013 night events: 7pm to 10.30pm<br \/>\nWC = World Championship<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, August 20th<br \/>\n<\/strong>AM Stratego Duel<br \/>\nPM Stratego Classic<br \/>\nD Go 19&#215;19<br \/>\nD Settlers of Catan<br \/>\nD Scrabble<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nN Texas Hold&#8217;Em<br \/>\nN Chess Blitz<br \/>\nN Dominion<br \/>\nN Othello<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>August 21st<br \/>\n<\/strong>AM Abalone (WC)<br \/>\nAM Gomoku<br \/>\nAM Natural Memory<br \/>\nAM Vegetables<br \/>\nPM Boku (WC)<br \/>\nPM Go 9&#215;9<br \/>\nPM Speed Memory<br \/>\nPM Triolet<br \/>\nD Agricola<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nN London Lowball<br \/>\nN 7 Wonders<br \/>\nN Go 13&#215;13<br \/>\nN Tri-Hexa (Puxzzle Challenge)<br \/>\nN Mental Calculation Blitz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, August 22nd<br \/>\n<\/strong>AM Quoridor<br \/>\nAM Mental Calculation (WC)<br \/>\nPM Continuo<br \/>\nPM Superfut<br \/>\nD Acquire<br \/>\nD Backgammon 6x7pt<br \/>\nD Marathon Memory<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nN Omaha<br \/>\nN Backgammon 6x1pt<br \/>\nN Blokus<br \/>\nN Splendor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, August 23rd<br \/>\n<\/strong>AM Decamentathlon (WC)<br \/>\nAM Mensa Connections<br \/>\nPM Mastermind<br \/>\nPM Rummikub<br \/>\nD Backgammon 6x5pt<br \/>\nD Diplomacy<br \/>\nD Marco Polo<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nN 5 Card Draw<br \/>\nN Hare and Tortoise (WC)<br \/>\nN Liar Dice (Perudo)<br \/>\nN Oware<br \/>\nN Tetris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, August 24th<\/strong><br \/>\nD Entropy (WC)<br \/>\nD Backgammon 8x3pt<br \/>\nD Monopoly<br \/>\nD Terra Mystica<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nN Pineapple<br \/>\nN Backgammon Plakoto<br \/>\nN Dominion (expansion)<br \/>\nN Speed reading<br \/>\nN Shacru WC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, August 25th<\/strong><br \/>\nAM Cribbage Singles<br \/>\nPM Cribbage Pairs<br \/>\nD Backgammon 4x11pt<br \/>\nD Lines of Action (WC)<br \/>\nD Puerto Rico<br \/>\nD Mind Mapping<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, August 27th<\/strong><br \/>\nAM Kenken\/Sudoku<br \/>\nAM Kings Cribbage (WC)<br \/>\nAM Shogi<br \/>\nPM Chinese Chess<br \/>\nPM Creative Thinking (WC)<br \/>\nPM Dominoes 5s&amp;3s<br \/>\nD Chess Rapid<br \/>\n10:00-16:30 Carcassonne<br \/>\n17:00-22:30 Ticket to ride<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nN 7 Card Stud<br \/>\nN Exchange Chess<br \/>\nN Quiz<br \/>\nN Twixt (WC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, August 28th<\/strong><br \/>\nAM Heads up Hold&#8217;Em<br \/>\nAM Trench (WC)<br \/>\nPM Lost Cities<br \/>\nPM Kamisado (WC)<br \/>\nD British Chess 960<br \/>\nD Cities &amp; Knights<br \/>\nD Countdown<br \/>\n6:30pm Award Ceremony[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Italian competitors&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1522773613318-1d0fac67-1b7b&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ITALIAN COMPETITORS<\/strong><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]All of the four Italian 2016 medalists have confirmed their participation\u2026 They will be fierce competitors![\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13537&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dario De Toffoli, Riccardo Gueci, Cosimo Cardellicchio, Daniele Ferri<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This year we will also have Piero Zama, an old friend of mine, back in the team.<br \/>\nIn the 80s he became Italian Champion both in Mastermind and in Risk and in 2004 he took part at MSO, winning 4 medals (among which, two gold).<\/p>\n<p>So with him in the ten some more Italian medals will be ensured\u2026 but we will be really competitive in the &#8220;senior&#8221; category, due to the 300 years we sum up together!<\/p>\n<p>Strong young players\u2026 please show up![\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13595&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">In the picture Piero playing at the &#8220;Italian Player of the Year&#8221; competitions<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Italian medals&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1547728523589-86d0b388-9c76&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">ITALIAN MEDALS<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Acquire<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Ankush Khandelwal <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\u00a0Tim Hebbes <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\u00a0Dario de Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n<p><strong>Backgammon &#8211; 11 p<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Anna Price <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' \/>\n2 Ali Hassannia <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/ir.png' alt= 'Iran Islamic Republic of' \/>\n2 Michael Flesch <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 Samuel Pires <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/pt.png' alt= 'Portugal' \/>\n<p><strong>Chess 960<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Ankush Khandelwal <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 Alexander Cherniaev <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/ru.png' alt= 'Russia' \/>\n3 Riccardo Gueci <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n<p><strong>Dominoes 5s&amp;3s<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Matthew Hathrell <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 Rossella Perniola <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 Peter Dance <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>Lost Cities<\/strong><br \/>\n1 James Heppell <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 Piero Zama <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 David Jameson <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>Mastermind<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Danton Hope <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 Piero Zama <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 David Jameson <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 (Lowball)<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Kuno Kolk <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/ee.png' alt= 'Estonia' \/>\n2 Harold Lee <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 Riccardo Gueci <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n<p><strong>Rummikub<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Daniele Ferri <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n2 Dario de Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 Jun U Choi <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/kr.png' alt= 'Korea Republic of' \/>\n<p><strong>Stratego Duel<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Riccardo Gueci <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n2 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' \/>\n3 Alberto Cruz Fernandez <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/es.png' alt= 'Spain' \/>\n<p><strong>Twixt<\/strong><br \/>\n1 Florian Jamain <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/fr.png' alt= 'France' \/>\n2 Cosimo Cardellicchio <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 Bharat Thakrar <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' \/>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#cc0000&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Senior Pentamind<\/strong><br \/>\n1\u00a0Dario De Toffoli <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n2 Piero Zama <img class='azc_flags' src='https:\/\/studiogiochi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/azurecurve-flags\/images\/it.png' alt= 'Italy' \/>\n3 Riccardo Gueci <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_section title=&#8221;Chronicles&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1518087796300-a92bca97-3e605aed-a287&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>LONDON, 20-28 August 2017<br \/>\nMind Sports Olympiad XXI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chronicles from the gaming tables 1<\/strong><strong>: BACK TO CATAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Dario De Toffoli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we are, again! Like every year, I\u2019m in London to take part in the Mind Sports Olympiad, now in its 21st edition.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t have missed the Olympiad this year, also because of a special reason I\u2019m going to reveal soon.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13609&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Competitions are starting tomorrow and the first challenge I\u2019m going to face is also the one I&#8217;m most worried about: Catan Tournament!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First of all, there\u2019s the starting placement, which is crucial: if I fail, I&#8217;ll basically be out of fight for victory\u2026. And \u2013 which is more \u2013 I haven\u2019t been playing a live match for 8 years!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If remember well, I played my last match in 2009, at MSO finals. A very unique experience. It was the second-to-last day of tournaments and I had scored 400 Pentamind points till then. If I had won that tournament, I would have finished with 500\/500, which is the maximum possible score, never reached so far, neither by Demis Hassabis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I was winning that game, on my right side there was Tim Hobbes and, on the left, David Pearce, both my rivals in the Pentamind ranking.<br \/>\nIt was Tim\u2019s turn: it was clear to everybody that I would have close at the next play and Tim couldn\u2019t have stopped me; but, for Pentamind reasons, David didn\u2019t want me to win, so he offered Tim to change 10 cards to 1 (10 to 1!), letting him the chance to close. Tim accepted, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At that time this was allowed, but now the Catan&#8217;s tournament is fortunately on the first day of competitions and a &#8220;no kingmaking&#8221; rule is applied in every tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2009 I missed the 500 points \u2013 which Tim reached, thanks to David&#8217;s stunt \u2013 I was third in the Pentamind ranking and David wasn\u2019t in the podium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, after so many years, I&#8217;M BACK TO CATAN, on the first day of this MSO: will I live up to this challenge? All the best players will be there, like the Portuguese champion Ricardo Gomes and Demis Hassabis (yes, him!). But I\u2019ll do my best!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the evening, a funny Hold&#8217;em tournament&#8230; it&#8217;s a pity that poker here is a bit amateurish, without a dealer, without padded table tops, lasting about 3 hours only. In any case, I\u2019ll be there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riccardo Gueci arrived here with me \u2013 he is a MSO habitu\u00e9 too \u2013 and Piero Nabendu Zama, an old friend I had met on the tables since the &#8217;80s. We were all born in 1953 (192 years into three!) and in the senior category we\u2019re not scared about anyone, we\u2019re aiming for the podium: after the double win last year, we have high hopes for a hat-trick!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riccardo is playing Catan and Hold&#8217;em tomorrow, like me, but also Stratego and Othello, where he got two gold medals last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If he is able to do the same this year, he may be at the head of Pentamind ranking!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daniele Ferri is coming too, with his VegeTables, a MSO classic by now, which I\u2019m playing this year for the first time at MSO.\u00a0Cosimo Cardellicchio will be here in a few days.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>LONDON, 20-28 August 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mind Sports Olympiad XXI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chronicles from the gaming tables 2<\/strong><strong>: NEW GAME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of Catan, I played \u201cNight in Hospital\u201d (5 hours waiting!) and I will miss tomorrow tournaments as well\u2026 good bye Pentamind!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I console with the news of Gueci\u2019s Gold in Stratego Duel!<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13607&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>LONDON, 20-28 August 2017<br \/>\n_____________________\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mind Sports Olympiad XXI<br \/>\nCronache dai tavolieri 3. : CONFUSION<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst they scared me with this thrombosis thing, today they said no more thrombosis. Very good&#8230; but I&#8217;m confused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the afternoon I started playing- with fatigue. Tomorrow Acquire&#8230; hope with my usual mindset.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13605&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONDON &#8211; 20-28 August 2017<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>_____________________\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mind Sports Olympiad XXI<br \/>\nChronicles from the gaming tables 4: STARTING PLAYING AND BEGINNING WITH A BRONZE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ok, no more laments, I try to focus and I start playing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>TRIOLET<\/strong><br \/>\nJust to be clear, tiles that are placed on a board with a mechanism similar to Scrabble.<br \/>\nI ended first with other 3 players, all of us with only one loss.<br \/>\nAfter tie-breaker I end up fourth, what a pity.<br \/>\nI knew that Jolly should have been removed from the competition, I also suggested it to the organizer but they didn&#8217;t accepted. And I managed to won the first two games without any Jolly, while my opponents used 2 each; I won, but by a small margin and technical tie-breaker was points difference itself!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACQUIRE<\/strong><br \/>\nJust a bronze, which is not what I aimed for, and I played really well (two victories and a second place), and many players congratulate me&#8230;\u00a0 but my opponents played in simpler tables and I couldn&#8217;t score higher percentages; the scoring system is complex, based on percentages of money accumulated during the game. Anyway, at the end the three medals go to the same three players (Ankush, Tim and myself) even if sequence changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POKER OMAHA<\/strong><br \/>\nI ended 7\u00b0; at the final table I make pot with K-K-Q and the fourth suited, but the smart Ankush, great player but today with luck on his side, makes me go all in with A-A-x-x and wins.<\/p>\n<p>Having already lost two days of competition I&#8217;m content with my bronze, 98th medal at MSO (this year my main goal is to reach 100 medals!) and even more the fact that I&#8217;m retrieving my gaming mindset.<br \/>\nAfter a delayed start, I can&#8217;t even think about Pentamind, but just try to make my best; Ankush Kahndelwal , Andrees Kuusk and James Heppel are going really well, with Ricardo Gomes and a couple of young estonian monsters (great school!). For the senior Riccardo Gueci is doing well (he has one gold and one bronze), while Piero Nabendu Zama hasn&#8217;t won a single medal yet&#8230; but tomorrow there&#8217;s &#8220;his&#8221; Mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>We will see tomorrow how it will go\u2026 I would like to reach 99!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In the photo I&#8217;m with my friend Harold Lee, once a Go master, now poker player\u2026 maybe he will receive a phone call from a Maison.<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13603&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONDON &#8211; 20-28 August 2017<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>_____________________\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mind Sports Olympiad XXI<br \/>\nChronicles from the game boards 5: GRASSHOPPERS AND FLOODS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What could have happen has happened, only grasshoppers and floods are missing. My bad for the erratic chronicles of this Annus Horribilis.<br \/>\nWith fever or without, I still managed to play some competitions; I come to London once a year and I didn&#8217;t really want to miss everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m at 99 medals, maybe 100 (but nobody knows by now, it depends on tie-breakes).<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s see what happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MENSA CONNECTION<\/strong><br \/>\nJust forget this tournament, yes, just forget it. It never happened!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RUMMIKUB\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nI use Daniele Ferri&#8217;s technique and I easily win the first 4 rounds making my opponent pay everytime more than 200 points.<br \/>\nGrand final against Daniele, he himself at 4\/4.<br \/>\nDrawn all the tiles, it is clear that I have no chance, I have only two 12 (both black) and Daniele on the higher tiles has 7\/8 more moves than me, I will be the first to \u201copen\u201d\u2026 and that&#8217;s what happen. There is even no time pressure, because for a mistake they gave us more time than necessary.<br \/>\nHonor to Daniele, who is really good and wins his fifth gold in Rummikub: just a silver for me: 99th medal!<br \/>\nI have to admit that Ferri&#8217;s technique is really effective, but it kills the game and the spectacle to a certain degree, from now after I will call him \u201cRummikub&#8217;s murderer!\u201d.<br \/>\nMaybe the solution could be to turn back to origin, with the &#8220;one minute every move&#8221; (with clocks, not hourglasses)\u2026 I don&#8217;t know, I have to talk about it with Daniele himself.<br \/>\nNot a good performance of the referee, to whom I had to explain many rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HARE&amp;TORTOISE<\/strong><br \/>\nI ended 4th, much behind my expectations, minding that I won the last year&#8217;s competition.<br \/>\nBut what happened was some kind of nightmare.<br \/>\nWe started. I start in 3rd position, but after a couple of turns I manage to gain the best position possible (I never had a better one), and I feel like I almost win, even if nobody can know for sure. But here come the referee (who is the almost 80 years old game&#8217;s inventor David Parlett) who says there has been a undefined mistake and makes me start over again playing again as third. I had never played in third position and I end last with a zero on the first turn; and as I manage to come back, it is not enough to bring me a medal.<br \/>\nJust to give you an idea, I played every single game starting from 3rd position, and that&#8217;s ridiculous; usually we play 4 games, shifting through all possible starting positions.<br \/>\nCan you imagine a chess match in which a player has always the white pieces and the other the black ones?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>POKER<\/strong><br \/>\nWe will talk about this the next time, that there is another tournament still available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MASTERMIND<\/strong><br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t playing\u00a0 but Piero Zama won a pretty good silver\u2026. followed by a fourth place in Monopoli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BACKGAMMON<\/strong><br \/>\nI have some hope in the swiss tournament to 11 points; I&#8217;m one of the strongest for sure. Among players who can get to Pentamind there are no great backgammon players and I feel safe, it would be perfect to meet them there! There are also ten specialist partecipants that came only for backgammon, but honestly I don&#8217;t feel to be weaker than any of them.<br \/>\nIt is a swiss tournament (no direct elimination) and thank to the experience and the fact that I applied literaly the old saying \u201cmai morto finch\u00e9 la matematica non condanna (never dead until math condamn)\u201d I win all the matches, reaching the final against a english woman with a win streak herself\u2026 but honestly I don&#8217;t understand how she did it, we can say in CNB she could do well in Intermediate. Gold to who wins. And that&#8217;s it, she won, becoming aware of blunders after making them, but making it up by rolling everytime an insanely quantity of doubles! \u201cIt\u2019s backgammon, how else can you win?\u201d she admits sincerely.<br \/>\nSo I took second place with one loss, but mainwhile other players with one loss reached me, so I don&#8217;t even know if I managed to get my 100th medal or not. For today that&#8217;s it (luckily I could rest) and I will find out tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PENTAMIND<\/strong><br \/>\nFor the overall Pentamind I don&#8217;t even know if I will be in the first 10 (I don&#8217;t think so), but for the senior I still have some chances and I think the title will still remain in Italy: there aren&#8217;t many over-60 that manage to qualify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong>\u00a0podium of Acquire<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13601&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONDON &#8211; 20-28 August 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>_____________________<br \/>\nMind Sports Olympiad XXI<br \/>\nChronicles from the game boards 6: 98, 99 e\u2026 100!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maybe my worst olympic performance ever, even if I had many external troubles (UK healthcare DON&#8217;T seems better than italian one!).<br \/>\nHowever, I reached my goals, the silver in Backgammon (I hoped for a little bit more) was my one hundredth medal in MSO and I&#8217;m still the Senior Pentamind champion, with a full italian podium, just saying, Piero Zama 2\u00b0 and Riccardo Gueci 3\u00b0. But I have to admit that there were not that many Senior competing and that the very strong and cheerful Paco de la Banda was missing. Oldie&#8217;s Italy, are there a couple of young boys who can bring higher our country, like incredibles estonians are doing?<br \/>\nConsidering overall scoring, my 394,79\/500 Pentamind points are a pretty terrible result (I think it is the first time I&#8217;m going below 400), and they make me the 13\u00b0 in the overall ranking.<br \/>\nHigher in the standing we can find two young boys who did incredible things; a even lucky James Heppel, great player and with Luck Goddess at his side: for him 8 golds and 476,16 points; second Ankush Kahndelwal with 471,34 points, he himself very strong (yesterday for amusement he won a Chess 960 tournament playing against a Grandmaster); third the always unbelievable estonian Andres Kuusk with 467,14; very close the other estonian, the 18 years old Martin Hobemagi and the portuguese Ricardo Gomes. They really did unbelievable stuff!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In regard to my last tournaments\u2026 no new medals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>POKER<\/strong><br \/>\nThe good thing is that every evening there is a different variation and I played some of them; but the bad thing is that it is an iper-turbo, considering that in 3 hours every tournament have to finish, because at 22:30 the location will close without any possible delay. It&#8217;s the weak point of MSO, for the next editions we all suggested to do less tournaments, but to give more time to have a more professional organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KING\u2019S CRIBBAGE<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst time I play this mix between Cribbage and Scrabble and I&#8217;m satisfied I managed to win a couple of\u00a0 games\u2026 I think I will try again this specialty unknown in Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DOMINO 5s&amp;3s<\/strong><br \/>\nDisappointed, I had expectations even here and I even trained, but I ended really behind in the final ranking. Why? I remember you that you score base on the multiple of 3 and 5 summing the two edges. Beh, I will describe how did the match against Tim Hobbes start: he plays 5-0 (1 point) and I pass (I have no 5 nor 0); he plays 0-0 (1 p.) and I pass; he plays 5-5 (2 p.) and I pass; he plays 0-2 (4 p.)\u2026 and so on with the first manche which ended 18-0 for him. And it could have ended 19-0 if Tim wouldn&#8217;t do a small mistake: what?<br \/>\nHonorable mention to the brilliant silver of Rossella Perniola, an italian who lives in London; unlucky we must admit, she was defeating Mattew Hathrell for the gold medal win, probably: she was missing only one point (she was at 120 out of 121) when Matthew was around 90; this has happened, Matthew catched up and won with an incredible sequence, beginning from the 6-6 starting tile. Things that happen while playing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LOST CITIES<\/strong><br \/>\nConclusive lottery tournament\u2026 but James Heppel takes also this one, but with the unbreakable silver of Piero Nabendu Zama. I must confess that in the year of my first Pentamind I won Lost Cities too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Honorable mention to the brilliant silver of Cosimo Cardellicchio in TWIXT (the favorite creature of the master Alex Randolph), behind the unreachable french Florian Jamain.<br \/>\nDulcis in fundo the great bronze of Riccardo Gueci in Chess 960, where he draw a match against a Grandmaster: he could have won the endgame with King-Queen against King-Rook, but he had only one minute left and the GM drew the game by calling the 50 moves rule: a great satisfaction for Riccardo! I never saw him smiling like that!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What else is left to say, we will come back for sure next year, when misfortune of this year will be compensated: becaus cards, tiles and dices remember! 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