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Polish success in chess and bridge as Entebbe 2024 FISU Championship Mind Sports wraps up

Championships 30 June 2024

The Entebbe 2024 FISU World University Championship Mind Sports has concluded in central Uganda. The event, which included competition in both chess and bridge, welcomed participants from 16 countries. This was Entebbe’s second time hosting a FISU event, having held the FISU Championship Cross-country in 2014. In bridge competition, France, by way of their defeat […]

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Six days of intense concentration in Uganda

Bridge 25 June 2024

The Entebbe 2024 FISU World University Championship Mind Sports welcomes the finest minds of the university world for both the chess and the bridge competitions. This is the fourth time that Uganda hosts a FISU World University Championship. First there was Woodball in 2010 in Kampala, then Cross-country four years later in Entebbe, and finally […]

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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 […]