The main events were parallel tournaments for open, women, and seniors national teams, 4 to 6 players, some with a non-playing captain and/or a coach (that is, the events of the quadrennial World Team Olympiad, 1960 to 2004, retrospectively termed the 1st to 12th World Bridge Games).
The world championship for national seniors teams (World Team Olympiad#Senior International Cup), which had been a WMSG non-medal event alongside the open and women flights in 2008, was now a WMSG medal event.
The seniors field, now a WMSG medal event as well as WBF world championship, increased from 32 to 34 entries.
[2] 65 bridge nations were represented by at least one Open, Women, or Seniors team; 30 entered all three flights.
There were 43 in the women field including four that did not enter the Open: Lebanon, Palestine, Indonesia (a championship contender), and the Philippines.
One website devoted to chess treated the inaugural SportAccord World Mind Games, December 2011 in Beijing, as the second rendition of the World Mind Sports Games, inaugurated October 2008 in Beijing.
On first Sunday afternoon, the third day of the competitive program, International Grand Master Tigran Gharamian played simultaneous matches at 30 tables, against a field including many children as young as age six.
Gharamian was a local player, a 28-year-old Armenian who had emigrated to Lille ten years earlier.
Individual medalists included Alexei Chizhov, Roel Boomstra, Nina Hoekman, and Alexander Schwarzman.
[15] The World Draughts Federation (FMJD)[16] officially announced the roster of 16 events and the conditions ("without any support for hospitality and travel") only five months in advance.
[17] The two checkers events, for men and women, were the world championship qualification tournaments and were supported by prizes including 1000 euro for first place.
The World Xiangqi Federation (WXF)[29] shows "News from Europe" that players from China squad won all six medals in the two Rapid events (women and men) completed 11 August.
Its Individual Men gold and silver medalists won the Teams (two players) followed by Vietnam and Hong Kong.