Mind sport

A mind sport is a game of skill based on intellectual ability.

Mind sports have to form UK national bodies and get together with the government to devise an acceptable amendment to the 1937 Act that clearly differentiates mind sports from parlour board games.

With IMSA organising the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing 2008[6] for contract bridge, chess, go, draughts and xiangqi many other bodies have lobbied for inclusion such as the International Federation of Poker,[7] which won provisional membership at the annual congress of SportAccord in Dubai in 2009.

[8] The term also includes mental calculation or memory disciplines as presented in International competitions such as the Mental Calculation World Cup (held bi-annually since 2004) and the World Memory Championships (held annually since 1991).

As well as board and card games,[9] other disciplines that have been described as mind sports are speed reading, quizzing, competitive programming,[10][11] and cybersecurity wargames.