A Short report of the first meeting of the Executive Board FMJD page 1
May 21 ,2010 Wageningen, Netherlands

Present: President Harry Otten, tournament Director Jacek Pawlicki, Treasurer Frits
Luteijn; General Secretary Frank Teer, representing EDC : Vice president Rima
Danileviciene, representing CAJD: Ndongo Fall, President section 64: Vladimir Langin,
president medical committee: Oumar Thiero; president Ethics Committee Moustapha
Diop

1. Duplicate Poker to be accepted as member of IMSA
A new federation applied to become member of IMSA: the International Poker Federation, IPF. At
first sight poker might seem to be gambling but the element of luck will completely be eliminated in
Duplicate Poker where different teams of players will get the same sets of cards like in duplicate
bridge. In the IMSA meeting in Dubai in April the IMSA board decided that IPF will be a
provisional member of IMSA, that they will apply for membership of SportAccord and when
accepted next year, they will automatically become a full member of IMSA. IPF has come with
suggestions and contracts to strengthen the financial position of IMSA.

2. Sport Accord Mind Games in Nanjing China,
SportAccord President Hein Verbruggen has been very active to organize SportAccord Mind Games
and he has found a sponsor city for this: Nanjing, the former capital of Southern China. It will take
place in September 2011. The event will be much smaller than the WMSG in Beijing. It is the
intention that the very best players of the world will play. In total there can be 240-250 participants
and about 100 people such as arbiters and technicians. Draughts can have a total of approximately 30
people including referees and technical assistants and there is only place for international draughts at
100 squares. We need to be attractive to the media and we will play with a new set up. In each round
there will be a winner in each game by playing a normal game, rapid and/or blitz and a Lehmann-
Georgiev tie break.
A number of World cup tournaments will be organized, or existing tournaments will receive World
Cup status, in which the players can qualify for this Sport Accord Mind Games.
For the players the tournament will be intensive but the finances are very attractive. Air tickets, food
and lodging will be paid by the organization and FMJD receives an amount for appearance fees ,
prize money, arbiters and technical necessities such as electronic board. The prize money for the
players will be more attractive as the prize money in the World Championship.

3. World Mind Sports Games 2012 / 2013
IMSA is looking at possibilities in Manchester in 2012 or 2013. With Rio de Janeiro already
showing interest to host WMSG in 2016 the FMJD has stated that 2012 were to be preferred but we
are also dependent on the other federations that have calendars that may conflict with an event in
2012. Duplicate Poker sponsor West Nally already promised to be capable to find considerable
sponsorship for the WMSG with Duplicate Poker involved. It will become clear in the coming
months when exactly the next WMSG will take place..
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4. World Championships international draughts 2010.
FMJD president Harry Otten has been to Brazil in February. The tournament is planned to be held
in Sao Paulo and not in Rio, but still in the aquarium. Harry Otten spoke with officials from the
government. He has asked for certainties which seem difficult to be given in Brazil.
Just before the meeting a more detailed report was received from Lelio Marcos.
Mr. Marcos organizes the 64 Brazil Championship from June 2-9 in an historic building in the town,
which is good organized with large prize money; Mr. Marcos expects he will be able to extract the
confidence and the consent of the local governments so that they can organize the world
championships there.
The necessary guarantees that were asked in February before May 31 will not be realized at that
date.
Short report of the first meeting of the Executive Board FMJD page 2
May 21 ,2010 Wageningen, Netherlands
After discussion the CD decides to give Mr. Marcos another two weeks to deliver the necessary
reassurances.

5. World Championship international draughts 2011
The preparations are going well and there is regular contact between the organizing committee and
the executive board of the FMJD. The FMJD has already received copies of contracts with the
sponsors and the organizing committee will give financial guarantees to the FMJD.

6. Open challenge for title match international draughts
At the General Assembly of 2011 the Executive Board of the FMJD will present a proposal for an
open challenge for a World Title match. First the challenger will have right to challenge the World
Champion but also other top players will get the possibility to challenge the world Champion if they
can find sponsoring for a good prize money for the World Champion.

7. World Championship 2013
The president of Gambia has given his approval that the World Championship 2013 can be
organized in Gambia.

8. World Championship cadets also boys and Girls
The Mongolian federation proposes to organize the world Championship youth, juniors and cadets,
in 2011 and has asked for the option to organize the world championship cadets for boys and for
girls. The Executive Board welcomes this proposal to have a separate world championship for boys
and girls not only for juniors but also for cadets.

9. News from the EDC
The   European Draughts Confederation  has found the possibility to organize the European
Championship in Poland from August 24 to September 1, 2010. It will be an open European
Championship with Swiss system. For every federation there is one player free of costs for hotel
and meals. Also the European champion Valneris and the first 4 players from the Viking Cup 2009
are free of hospitality costs.







Short report of the second meeting of the Executive Board FMJD page 1
May 22 ,2010 Wageningen, Netherlands

Present: EVP Harry Otten, tournament Director Jacek Pawlicki, Treasurer Frits Luteijn; General Secretary Frank Teer, representing CAJD: Ndongo Fall, President section 64: Vladimir Langin, president medical committee: Oumar Thiero, president Ethics Committee Moustapha Diop

1. News from the African confederation
2. News from the Pan-American confederation (by mail)
3. News from the section 64
4. Doping control
5. Ethics committee

1. News from the African confederation
The African championship will be played in Mali from June 11 to June 26. Mali replaces Burkina Faso.
The African Draughts Federation (CAJD) thanks and congratulates EVP Mr. Fofana for his work to realize this African 1 championship in Mali.
More than 10 federations will be represented with 2 players each and also the title holder and the highest ranked player in the FMJD rating list.
Mali participates with 2 players plus 2 players for organization place and sponsor place and if necessary one make-even player.
The CAJD presents the agreement of the authorities in Gambia to organize the world Championship 2013 in Banjul.

2. News from the Pan-American confederation (by mail)
The Pan-American championship will be held in January 2011. This is after the deadline November 8 for the qualification for the World Championship 2011, but the Executive Board accepts qualification from this tournament for the World Championship in May 2011 in the Netherlands

3. News from the section 64
In the General Assembly of the section 64 on May 1, 2010 12 federations were present with voting rights. A new president of the section 64 has been elected: Vladimir Langin takes the place of former president Leszek Petlicki and becomes member of the Executive Board of theFMJD.
News from the section 64 is regularly published on the website of the section 64 www.fmjd64.com. As much as possible the information will be published in Russian, English and French.

4. Doping control
In 2010 the FMJD will have tests during the African Championship in Mali and in 2011 during the World Championship in the Netherlands. Due to the discussion within IMSA there will not be out of competition testing in 2010.

5. Ethics committee
The ethics committee is preparing a document with an ethical code for the behavior of players during competitions.

 

FIRST SPORTACCORD WORLD MIND GAMES SET FOR 2011
November 11, 2010

Beijing, CHINA - The Chinese strength in draughts has been a surprise to many of the draughts participants at the 1st WMSG in Beijing. But not to everyone. When speaking to ten-times world champion Alexei Chizhov, he is not amazed at all.

Within a one years time the Chinese were able to learn the art of playing draughts at a very acceptable level. Of course that is the result of the way draughts sports is being implemented due to the Chinese mind setting regarding sports. Much knowledge comes from the ideas and experiences of Casper van der Tak, a Dutch businessman who lives in China. He was the first person to teach this board game and was a big help to the Chinese draughts organization. Their path of discovery led them to Ufa, a Russian city well known amongst draughts players. The goal of their visit was to learn how to organize a draughts tournament. When in Russia, Chizhov was contacted and invited to come to China, and so he did.
Booming
On May 18th Chizhov, one of the candidates favoured to win the WMSG draughts competition, came to China for a 10 day stay. It was a period of some sessions with simultaneous play, analyzing games and maybe even more important, he trained the Chinese trainers. A little while after that draughts schools with professional trainers were established. This way, the host country of the 1st WMSG could independently educate the talented players. Besides being talented, the by now 200 players in China possess two other important qualities; mind sports experience and enthusiasm. The Chinese potential is well recognized by Chizhov. Draughts is a booming sport in this Asian country. When the Chinese were able to train 200 young people play draughts this well in only one year, what will happen in a longer period of time? At this rate will China be competing for the highest ranks in 2015?
WMSG participants
Back to the present, the WMSG, held in Beijing. Chizhov came to China on the 14th of September to finish a training period for the qualified participants of the WMSG. The full training period lasted two months. The days were filled with two training sessions of three hours each. When adding up the draughts homework and the online playing, it becomes clear that the draughts capacities did not come out of the blue, but were the result of hard work.
As young as they are, the Chinese participants of the WMSG international draughts competition have all played another mind sport at high levels; this includes go, xiangqi and chess. One of them, Ce Zheng, is a professional 3rd dan go player.
The youngest player in the men’s tournament is the ten year old Quinrang Zeng. All eyes were focussed on him in the 3rd round when he forced Lithuanian master Kudriavcev to a draw. When bringing this fact to the attention of Chizhov, he simply says: ‘he is just one of a group of kids his age, who all play equally well
The first SportAccord World Mind Games will be held in Beijing, China, in September 2011. The brand-new event will feature top players from six mind-sport games —bridge, chess, draughts, go, Chinese chess, and duplicate poker — and was announced on November 10 by Hein Verbruggen, President of SportAccord. "This event is different from the World Mind Sport Games in that it features only a small field of top players, rather than the general representation from all nations as in WMSG,” says Thomas Hsiang, Vice President of the International Go Federation and Secretary General of the International Mind Sport Association, "it is also different from the current international go competitions such as the LG Cup or Fujitsu Cup in that the new event will include top Western players, women players, and youth representation.” The technical details will be worked out in the next few weeks, says Hsiang.


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Beijing, CHINA - The Chinese strength in draughts has been a surprise to many of the draughts participants at the 1st WMSG in Beijing. But not to everyone. When speaking to ten-times world champion Alexei Chizhov, he is not amazed at all.

Within a one years time the Chinese were able to learn the art of playing draughts at a very acceptable level. Of course that is the result of the way draughts sports is being implemented due to the Chinese mind setting regarding sports. Much knowledge comes from the ideas and experiences of Casper van der Tak, a Dutch businessman who lives in China. He was the first person to teach this board game and was a big help to the Chinese draughts organization. Their path of discovery led them to Ufa, a Russian city well known amongst draughts players. The goal of their visit was to learn how to organize a draughts tournament. When in Russia, Chizhov was contacted and invited to come to China, and so he did.
Booming
On May 18th Chizhov, one of the candidates favoured to win the WMSG draughts competition, came to China for a 10 day stay. It was a period of some sessions with simultaneous play, analyzing games and maybe even more important, he trained the Chinese trainers. A little while after that draughts schools with professional trainers were established. This way, the host country of the 1st WMSG could independently educate the talented players. Besides being talented, the by now 200 players in China possess two other important qualities; mind sports experience and enthusiasm. The Chinese potential is well recognized by Chizhov. Draughts is a booming sport in this Asian country. When the Chinese were able to train 200 young people play draughts this well in only one year, what will happen in a longer period of time? At this rate will China be competing for the highest ranks in 2015?
WMSG participants
Back to the present, the WMSG, held in Beijing. Chizhov came to China on the 14th of September to finish a training period for the qualified participants of the WMSG. The full training period lasted two months. The days were filled with two training sessions of three hours each. When adding up the draughts homework and the online playing, it becomes clear that the draughts capacities did not come out of the blue, but were the result of hard work.
As young as they are, the Chinese participants of the WMSG international draughts competition have all played another mind sport at high levels; this includes go, xiangqi and chess. One of them, Ce Zheng, is a professional 3rd dan go player.
The youngest player in the men’s tournament is the ten year old Quinrang Zeng. All eyes were focussed on him in the 3rd round when he forced Lithuanian master Kudriavcev to a draw. When bringing this fact to the attention of Chizhov, he simply says: ‘he is just one of a group of kids his age, who all play equally well