Linda Lee — My personal bridge blog

Let the games begin — updated

Opening Ceremony

 

The Opening Ceremonies are over and the games are about to begin.  If you would like to get a flavour for the opening ceremonies,

 You can check out this clip on Utube where they are raising the Chinese flag at the close of the opening ceremony:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV7

 And the march of the flagbearers

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3z_IjXdPEc

 The Chinese news features the Opening Ceremonies today.

 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/04/content_10146505.htm

 

 An athlete pours water into a conch representing wisdom during the opening ceremony of the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2008. The games comprise Bridge, Chess, Go and Draughts with more than 3000 competitors competing for 35 gold medals

Chinese go chess player vows during the opening ceremony of the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)

 

Athletes march in with national flags during the opening ceremony of the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

 Daily Bulletin

 Here is an excerpt from the first Bridge Daily

 

 Participants in Bridge, Go, Chess, Xiangqi and Draughts, representing 143 countries and regions, were on hand for the opening ceremonies at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.

With the flags of the nations on display behind him, World Bridge Federation President Jose Damiani told players, “You are the ones who will show the world that you can combine harmony and honor even in tough competition.” Damiani is also president of the International Mind Sports Association.

 See the Daily Bulletin at

http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/Beijing.08/Bulletins/WMSG/Bul0101.htm

  The junior teams have their very own bulletin at

http://www.worldbridge.org/bulletin/08_2%20Beijing/pdf/Youth/bul_01.pdf

 Tonight’s Matches

 I see that I have a lot of games to chose from tonight with Open games  :Hungary-China, Australia-England, Norway-Egypt and Israel-Netherlands and Italy-Finland on some kind of vugraph in the first session.  I really can’t decide!  I am thinking Norway-Egypt at the moment but I might chaneg my mind later on.

 OMG (oh my goodness) as they say online the I want to stay up and watch Round 2 in real time.  Canada is playing against Italy on Vugraph and there are also two other great matches to watch, Island-Poland, Denmark-South Africa.  I guess I could flip between them.  Can I really stay up that late to watch those matches.  They start at 2:20AM  I hope so.  Yawn. 

 BBO Vugraph

I just found the vugraph schedule for BBO on their forum

 http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?showtopic=27224

 Here is the post for you

Many have been wondering if we are going to broadcast from the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing (October 3-18). Today I received an e-mail from Song Zhao, our contact in the CCBA, and he was able to forward a BBO schedule he has received from the WBF.

As usual, we will list the event on our vugraph schedule web page as soon as possible, but I can give you a summary here:

17 rounds of round-robin, 16 boards per match.

4 segments of 14 boards in the Round of 16.

6 segments of 16 boards in the quarter-finals.

6 segments of 16 boards in the semi-finals.

6 segments of 16 boards in the finals.

At this point we don’t know how many tables we will have up per session. As is always the case, it will depend on how many operators the organisers can get.

Roland

Results

 

If you want to check out the results from all sports go to the official site.

 

http://123.124.180.125/en-us/index.aspx

 

So far only the bridge individual has started but that will all change in an hour or two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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