From: David Levy INTRSRCH DEMON CO UK> Date: 31 may 1999 Subject: Shogi at the Mind Sports Olympiad SHOGI at the 3rd MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD ======================================= Olympia, London, August 21-25 1999 We are delighted to announce that the venue for the 3rd Mind Sports Olympiad will be the Conference Centre at Olympia, one of London's premier exhibition and conference sites. The dates, as announced at the end of last year's event, are August 21st-29th. By extending the event to nine days we have made it possible to accommodate more players and to organize more tournaments. The Olympiad Shogi Championship will be played from August 21st-25th, to allow players to leave in time for the tournament in Leiden. We plan to have events for most games throughout the Olympiad. Typically, for each game, there will be some tournaments on the first weekend, then some 5-day events on the middle Monday-Friday (August 23-27) and finally some more tournaments on the final weekend. But every game will have its own requirements and at this stage we are still flexible in our tournament planning. For example, we are organizing a very strong chess tournament with 9 rounds, extending thhroughout the Olympiad, in which players will be able to obtain norms towards international titles. This tournament is in addition to the quickplay and 5-minute chess tournaments which we have held in the past. This year the total Olympiad prize fund is 100,000 pounds. For the Shogi tournament the prize fund is 5,000 pounds (approx $8,350). We will be dramatically upgrading our web site over the next few months. Also, we opened a full time central London MSO office on May 14th. Details of the exact distribution of the 5,000 pound prize fund will be available in early June. Information will be sent to this mailing list and posted on our web site: http://www.mindsports.co.uk/ For entry forms please send a self-addressed envelope to: Mind Sports Olympiad, P.O. Box 13388, London NW3 5FB, England. e-mail entries to: tony tcs-chess demon co uk e-mail enquiries to: dlevy intelligent-group com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++