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 […]
12 Sep 2022
-17 Sep 2022
Belgium, Antwerp
26 Oct 2020
-30 Oct 2020
Poland, Bydgoszcz
25 Jun 2024
-30 Jun 2024
Uganda, Entebbe
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) […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
