Mind Sports
Founded on 14 December 1984, Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) has hosted five world championships in Johannesburg in 1997, Cape Town in 1999, Durban in 2002, Port Elizabeth in 2007, and again in Durban in 2012. The MSSA looks after the following games:
Board gaming
Backgammon, Draughts (Anglo-American, Pool Checkers and International), Morabaraba (also known as Mlabalaba), Moruba, SesothoMorabaraba
Figure gaming
Ancients (3000 BC to 1500 AD), Pike & Shot (1500 AD to 1700 AD), Horse & Musket (1700 to 1845), World War II (1939 to 1945)
eSports
Mobile gaming, PSP gaming, Personal computer gaming
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Famous quotes containing the words mind and/or sports:
“The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)