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FISU World University Championship Mind Sports: surprise winners in chess

Championships 18 September 2022

While the bridge competition ended with Poland eventually prevailing over France in a tight race for gold, both the men and women chess tournaments crowned players that were not among the clear favourites.   Full of confidence and showing solid and convincing play that left him unbeaten during the whole tournament, Anesh Daghli (Iran, picture) […]

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Masters of Mind Sports meet in Antwerp

Championships 12 September 2022

The 2022 FISU World University Championship Mind Sports (12-17 September) has started in the 16th-century Hof van Liere building, located in the heart of the University of Antwerp City Campus (Belgium).   While 16 teams have registered for the bridge competition, several grandmasters (GM) and international masters (IM) are participating in the chess tournament.    […]

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Chess Champ ready to compete at September's FISU Championship Mind Sports

Bridge 18 August 2022

  German-born but raised in the southern suburbs of Cape Town, top Maties Chess Club player Nico Martin has been one of the club’s rising stars who is set to represent country and university at the upcoming 2022 FISU World University Championship Mind Sports in Antwerp, Belgium later this year.   Born in Munich, at […]

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Winners emerge at the inaugural African Mind Sports Championship

Bridge 3 December 2020

With full embrace of technology in line with the bid to continue engaging university students in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the African University Sports Federation (FASU) organised its first ever Africa University Mind Sports Championship. The competitions were held online on 28 and 29 November 2020, consisting of men’s and women’s bridge, draughts […]