National Mind Sports Games
The First National Mind Sports Games took place in 13 to 23 November 2009 in Chengdu, Sichuan. The event is sponsored by General Administration of Sport of China and was participated by over 2, 600 competitors from 46 parties in China, took part in some 43 events of six disciplines. Chess is one of the games amongst another six games (weiqi, xiangqi, chess, contract bridge, gobang, draughts). The chess section has 8 gold medals: open team rapid, women team rapid, open individual rapid, women individual rapid, open individual blitz, women individual blitz, boys team classic, girls team classic.
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