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The Mind Sports Organisation (MSO) is an association for promoting mental-skill games (Mind Sport) including Contract Bridge, Chess, Go, Mastermind, and Scrabble. Since 1997 it has annually organised in England a multi-sport competition, the Mind Sports Olympiad. The MSO was founded in conjunction with the first Mind Sports Olympiad. Beside the main event, always in England and usually in London, it has supported similar events elsewhere, including Milan; South Korea,〔MSO Korean Contest Will Be Held on 22 July, Korea JoongAng Daily, 14 July 1999, () Retrieved 30 April 2011〕 and Prague.〔Looking forward to the Mind Sports Olympiad, Radio Prague, Jan Velinger, 17 September 2006 () Retrieved 30 April 2011〕 == Mind Sports Olympiad == (詳細はRoyal Festival Hall in 1997. It brought together an unprecedented number of strategy games and events. William Hartston in 'The Independent said, "The biggest gamesfest ever to hit these (or perhaps any other) shores".〔William Hartston, (South Bank Brain Show'' ), ''The Independent'' 21 June 1997, Retrieved 2 August 1997〕 The inaugural MSO along with a very large number of games, introduced two new events of their own creation the Pentamind and the Decamentathlon. These were two events to parallel the multi-event games in athletics of the modern pentathlon and the decathlon. This was part of the ambition to create an Olympics of the mind.〔''The Mind Sports Olympiad Supplement'' s, ''The Times'', July - August 1997〕 The Mind Sports Olympiad returned to London with sponsorship in both 1998〔Robert Sheehan, ''Sheehan on Bridge'', ''The Times'', 20 October 1998〕 and 1999.〔Alan Hiron, ( ''Games: Bridge'' ), ''The Independent'', 5 December 1999, Retrieved 2 August 2009〕 Despite a falling out between the organisers (see controversy below) a successful event was held in Alexandra Palace the next year in 2000.〔Paul Sussman, ( ''Fierce rivalry in 'Olympics' for brainboxes'' ) 24 August 2000〕 The Mind Sports Olympiad main event continued to happen but without sponsorship the tournaments were held at a number of different universities. The event was still going strong for the years 2001 - 2006.〔David Ward, ( ''Cerebral Athletes Play Mind Games'' ), ''(Guardian )'', 22 August 2005, Retrieved 2 August 2009〕 The main 2004 event featured a separate event for schools, featuring competitions and activities in chess, Go, quizzes and intelligence puzzles. But in 2007 the Mind Sports Olympiad was reduced to a much smaller venue in Potters Bar due to no sponsorship and no advertising.〔Stephen Moss, ( ''This time it's Personal'', The Guardian ), 27 August 2007〕 In 2008 the MSO saw a revival returning to a central London venue, the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster and again on 21–31 August 2009.〔Information about venue for MSO XIII, http://www.boardability.com/mso/venue.html, 2 August 2009〕 The 2010 event was held at the Soho Theatre in London.〔Account of MSO XIV, http://www.boardability.com/result.php?id=mso14, 15 February 2011〕 In 2011, the Mind Sports Olympiad moved to a bigger venue, the University of London Union. The 16th MSO will take place once again at the University of London Union in 18–27 August 2012. Over the last few years, MSO has been flourishing both at its satellite events and at the main event in London, which attracted almost 800 entries in 2011. MSO London is a truly global event, and the 2010 Pentamind World Champion Paco Garcia De La Banda hails from Spain, while the 2011 Pentamind World Champion Andres Kuusk is from Estonia.〔()〕 The most widely read chess magazine in the world, Chess Life, featured an article in February 2012 about in the inauguration of Diving Chess into the 2011 Mind Sports Olympiad.〔http://content.yudu.com/A1vdb5/ChessLifeFeb2012/resources/12.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mind Sports Organisation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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