1st World Mind Sport Games at Beijing 2008
1st World Mind Sport Games are taking place at Beijing from October 3-18, 2008.Bridge along with other mind sports like Chess, Draughts, Go & Xiangqi (Chinese Checkers) are being played there.In bridge India is represented in Open, Women,Senior, Under 28 & Under 26 categories. In under 21 category India has no representation. In Open teams 71 countries are taking part, they are divided into 4 groups, from each group 4 teams would qualify for round of 16 after full league & India is represented by Rajesh Dalal, Subhash Gupta, Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayna, Sunit Chokshi & KR Venkataraman. In Women category 54 countries are taking part, they are divided into 3 groups, from each group 5 teams & one team with best percentile VP would qualify for round of 16 after full league & India is represented by Lakshmi Chari, Subadra Rao, Hema Deora, Bimal Sicka, Sherien Ryan & S Vasanth. In senior category 32 countries are taking part, they are divided into 2 groups, from each group 8 teams would qualify for round of 16 after full league & India is represented by Ashok Goel, Major S Hooda, Kamal Mukherjee, VM Lal, R Sridharan & Ashok Vaidya.In Under 28 category 74 teams are taking part, they play swiss league of 17 rounds after which 8 teams would qualify for round of 8 & India is represented by Prasenjit Das, Sandip Datta, Sapan Desai, Pravin Kashlekar, Anurag Mohota & Aniket Sanghvi. In under 26 category 18 countries are taking part, they play full league of 17 rounds after which 8 teams would qualify for round of 8 & India is represented by Soumya Das, Raja Guthi, Arijit Hazra, Vinoth Raghvan, Karan Sharma & Prasanth Sriram.
Day 7 Report.
Open teams - India finished at 4th place in their group B with 313 VPs & Qualified for round of 16.Day 1- Vs Argentina 14, Vs China Hong Kong 21 & Vs Israel 20.Day 2- Vs Korea 25, Vs Jamaica 23, Vs Scotland 19.Day 3- Vs Austria 25, Vs Hungary 12, Vs China 16.Day 4- Vs Russia 11, Vs French Polynesia 21, Vs San Marino 15.Day 5- Vs Sweden 10, Vs Netherlands 15.Day 7- Vs Mexico 25, Vs Latvia 16, Vs Portugal 25.
Women - India finished at 11th place in their group E with 226 VPs.Day 1- Vs USA 10, Vs Brazil 18, Vs Lithuania 13.Day 2- Vs Norway 11, Vs Reunion 17.5, Vs Egypt 21.Day 3- Vs China Hong Kong 15, Vs Trinidad 7, Vs Belarus 17.Day 4- Vs Gudeloupe 12, Vs England 13, Vs Thailand 16.Day 5- Vs Japan 11, Vs Portugal 8.Day 7- Vs Italy 6.5, Vs Palestine 18, Vs Poland 12.
Senior - India finished 10th place in their group L with 215 VPs.Day 1- Vs Germany 5, Vs Indonesia 7, Vs Italy 17.Day 2- Vs Netherlands 19, Vs Thailand 21, Vs Belgium 20.Day 3- Vs Finland 20, Vs Canada 15.Day 4- Vs Ireland 13, Vs Australia 8, Vs Reunion 22.Day 5- Vs Egypt 14, Vs Poland 4.Day 7- Vs China 16, Vs Guadeloupe 16.
Under 28 - India finished at 15th place with 276 VPs, they needed 18 from their last match could manage only 4.Day 1- Vs Ecuador 17, Vs Ireland 25, Vs Croatia 21.Day 2- Vs Iceland 16, Vs Portugal 21, Vs Egypt 16.Day 3- Vs Serbia 25, Vs Poland 14, Vs England 5.Day 4- Vs China 13, Vs Israel 7, Vs Norway 19.Day 5- Vs Latvia 22, Vs Hungary 16.Day 7- Vs Australia 24, Vs Chinese Taipei 11, Vs Belgium 4.
Under 26 - India finished at 18th place with 160 VPs.Day 1- Vs Australia 7, Vs Egypt 17, Vs Argentina 13.Day 2- Vs China 14, Vs Indonesia 9, Vs Netherlands 0.Day 3-Vs Chile 0, Vs Poland 10, Vs China Hong Kong 5.Day 4- Vs USA 15, Vs Norway 20, Vs Chinese Taipei 7.Day 5- Vs Canada 13, Vs New Zealand 11.Day 7- Vs Italy 7, Vs Germany 12, Vs Denmark 0.
Individual Event
An Invitational Individual event for men & women was played over 3 sessions (One session on Day 0 & two sessions on Day 6). There were 36 participants in men category & 24 in women. Tor Helness of Norway won the men's event with 58.66% score, Geir Helgemo (Norway) was second with 55.27% & Andrey Gromov (Russia) was third with 53.75%. India's Subhash Gupta was joint 14th with 50.45%. The women's event was won by Midskog Catarina of Sweden with 57.51%, Levy Anne Fredrique (France) was second with 57.13% & Yan Ru (China) was third with 55.1%. India's Bimal Sicka finished 18th with 46.81%.
Open Knock Out Phase
Open team round of 16 saw European domination with 12 out of 16 countries from its zone making it. India drew a tough opponent & a potential title contender in Italy (Claudio Nunes, Fulvio Fantoni, Alferdo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Antonio Sementa & Georgio Duboin) . Italy defeated India thus ending Indian campaign. The upsets in this round were Poland defeating powerful USA team (Nickell, Freeman, Hamman, Compton, Rodwell & Meckstroth), China defeating Brazil & Romania upsetting Israel. Norway defeated Turkey, England defeated Bulgaria, Netherlands beat Estonia & Germany beat Belgium to make it to last eight. The six segment 2 day quarterfinal saw Italy beat Poland, Norway beat China, England beat Romania & Germany upsetting Netherlands. Italy defeated Norway & England beat Germany to reach finals.Italy defeated England (Justin Hackett, Jason Hackett, David Gold, Tom Townsend, Nicklas Sandqvist, Artur Malinowski) 200-170 in 6 segment 2 day final to win the title.Norway (Ulf Tundal, Glenn Groetheim, Jorgen Molberg, AA Terje, Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness) defeated Germany 93-56 in 2 segments to win bronze medal.
Women/Senior categories Report
In Women category China, USA, England & Turkey made it to Semi finals.China beat USA & England beat Turkey to reach finals.England (Nevena Senior, Heather Dhondy, Nicola Smith, Sally Brock, Catherine Draper, Anne Rosen) defeated China (Yalan Zhang, Gu Ling, Sun Ming, Wang Hongli, Wang Wenfei, Liu Yi Qian)223-222 in 6 segment 2 day final to win Gold. USA (Jenice Seamon Molsen, Tobi Sokolow, Marinesa Letizia, Mildred Breed, Judi Radin, Sylvia Moss) defeated Turkey 134-88 in 3 segments to win Bronze.
In Senior category no European country made it to round of four with USA, Egypt, Indonesia & Japan making it.USA beat Egypt & Japan defeated Indonesia to reach senior finals.Japan (Ino Masayuki, Abe Hiroya, Yamada Akihiko, Ohno Kyoko) defeated USA (Sam Lev, Billy Eisenberg, Russ Ekeblad, Matt Granovetter, Grant Baze, Reese Milner) 202-200 in 6 segment 2 day final to win Gold. Indonesia (Eddy Monoppo, Danny Sacul, Munawar Sawiruddin, Henky Lasut, Waluyan, Hartono Michael Bambang) defeated Egypt 108-56 in 3 segments to win Bronze.
Youth categories Report
U 28 Semifinalists were Poland, France, China & Norway where Poland beat France & Norway defeated China. Norway (Sverre Johan Aal, Erik A Eide, Jorn Arild Ringseth, Stefan Fredrik Simonsen) over came 47.3 IMP deficit in 4th segment to win by 2.7 IMPs against Poland, China finished 3rd. Under 26 category was won by Denmark (Dennis Bilde, Anne Sofie Houlberg, Jonas Houmoller, Emil Jepsen, Lars Kirkegaard Nielsen, Martin Schaltz) who defeated Poland in the final, Norway was 3rd & Chinese Taipei was 4th. Under 21 category was won by France (Marion Cannone, Piere Franceschetti, Alexendre Kilani, Aymeric Lebatteux, Nicholas Lhuissier, Cedric Lorenzini) who defeated England in the final, China was 3rd & Bulgaria was 4th.
All reports courtesy WBF website & www.swangames.com
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