International Mind Sports Association

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The International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) is an association formed by the international federations of bridge, chess, draughts (checkers) and go.

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The life of the International Mind Sports Association started on Tuesday 19th April 2005, when a document was signed in Berlin. This was at SportAccord 2005, just before the General Association of International Sports Federations General Assembly. This was a declaration concerning the founding of the World Mind Sports Confederation. The international organisations for Bridge, Chess (Echecs), Draughts (Dames or Checkers) and Go (Baduk or Weiqi) were founding members.

The signatories for the founders were:

  1. World Bridge Federation (WBF)- Mr Jose Damiani (President)
  2. Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) - Mr Georgios Makropoulos (Deputy President)
  3. World Draughts Federation (FMJD) - Dr Walter van Beek (Vice-President)
  4. International Go Federation (IGF) - Mr Erik Puyt (Vice-President)

Also signing were:

  1. General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) - Mr Hein Verbruggen (President)
  2. General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) - Ms Christine Dominguez (Director General)

Hein Verbruggen is acting President of GAISF, but also a Vice-President of the IOC and chairman of the IOC Beijing Committee.

The declaration stated:

  1. The World Mind Sports Federation is an association of international mind sport federations and organisations contributing to sport and specifically mind sports, on educationally, scientific or technical level, which meets regularly and within each member retains its autonomy and independence.
  2. The goal of the World Mind Sports Confederation is to gather together the different mind sports federations to pursue common aims and interests, to organise the "World Mind Sport Games" (WMSG) - or any other name to be decided on - under the aegis of the General Association of International Mind Sport Federations and further realise the inclusion of the mind sports in the Olympic Movement.

The minutes of the constitutive meeting and the statutes of the fledgling body were also agreed, subject to final approval by the founding federations.

When preparing the official statutes, the IGF and FMJD considered that a better name for the body was "International Mind Sports Association". This name and the statutes were formally agreed at the next meeting of the body in October 2005 in Portugal.

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