Mental Sports Olympiad for Schools in the 2012/2013 academic year

Organizers Estonian Mind Sports Association, Estonian mind sports portal Vint.ee, Estonian Chess Association, Estonian Chess Association, Estonian Renjuliit, AS Kuma The Mind Sports Olympiad will feature tournaments in four areas: Russian Checkers, Chess, Gomoku and Sudoku solving. There will be 4 stages during the academic year and the competition will be held in three different age groups: elementary school, basic school and high school. Schedule 10.09 - 14.09.2012 Informing schools about the tournament. Schools will have 1 month to identify interested participants in their schools. 19.10.2012 - Registration deadline for schools 05.11 - 08.11.2012 Stage I of the competition will take place On Monday (05.11) at 14.00 chess tournaments will start (3 tournaments will take place in parallel in the Vint.ee environment - a separate tournament for each age group) On Tuesday (06.11) at 14.00 checkers tournaments will start Gomoku tournaments will start on Wednesday (07.11) at 14.00 Sudoku tournaments will start on Thursday (08.11) at 14.00 Stage II of the competition will take place 14.01 - 17.01.2013 (tournaments will take place similarly to Stage I) Stage III of the competition will take place 04.03 - 07.03.2013 Stage III of the competition will take place 06.05 - 09.05.2013 Stage IV of the competition All schools must notify their wish to participate in the competition, along with a list of students, to [email protected] by 19.10.2012. For each student, the following must be provided: Student's first and last name Class (so that the student can participate in the correct age group) Field in which the student participates (If participating in several fields, the names of all fields must be written down) Student's Vint.ee username All schools can organize intra-school tournaments in all of the above-mentioned games in the vint.ee environment. If you are interested, please contact [email protected]. If you are studying at school and want to participate in the tournaments, then find your school's interest group leader or math teacher and tell them about the competition. It is also possible to take on the organization yourself, explain to those interested from your school and register them for the tournament! Detailed instructions can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rzd01HPf1u6nrexwOF41WmDsQEFCTy95dn_wXdtgkI4/edit. If you have access to a school printer, print out the event poster and post it on your school's bulletin board: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2bZ6aq_Fm3OcmstRlI4Y3lHeW8 All questions are welcome right here on the Vint.ee forum.

Participating schools (areas, number of participants): 1) Tallinn Mustamäe Humanities High School (checkers chess, 9) 2) Narva Old Town State School (checkers and sudoku, 32) 3) Pärnu Kuninga Tänava Basic School (sudoku chess gomoku, 17) 4) Tapa Russian High School (sudoku, 3) 5) Tallinn Järveotsa High School (chess, 1) 6) French Lyceum (gomoku sudoku, 1) 7) Kehra High School (checkers chess, 1) 8) Kivimäe Basic School (checkers gomoku, 4) 9) Tallinn German High School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 3) 10) Aruküla Basic School (checkers chess gomoku, 15) 11) Surju Basic School (checkers chess gokoku sudoku, 25) 12) Nõo Realgymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 8) 13) Nizhny Novgorod, Lyceum No. 87 (gomoku, 1) 14) Paldiski Gymnasium (gomoku, 3) 15) Laagri School (gomoku, 15) 16) Saue Gymnasium (gomoku, 5) 17) Gustav Adolf Gymnasium (chess gomoku,19) 18) Laulasmaa School (chess sudoku, 6) 19) Pärnu Old Town Primary School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 6) 20) Viljandi Jakobson School (checkers, 11) 21) Kambja Primary School (checkers chess sudoku, 21) 22) Muhu Primary School (chess chess, 7) 23) Viira School (sudoku, 3) 24) Viljandi Gymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 3) 25) Vaida Primary School (checkers chess gomoku,4) 26) Kihelkonna School (chess, 1) 27) Tartu Kivilinna Gymnasium (checkers gomoku sudoku,1) 28) Tallinn Comprehensive Gymnasium (checkers, 3) 29) Tallinn Science School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 9) 30) Tallinn Kuristiku Gymnasium (Gomoku, 15) 31) Tõstamaa Secondary School (sudoku, 10) 32) Kohtla-Järve Comprehensive Gymnasium (checkers chess sudoku, 4) 33) Olustvere Basic School (checkers chess, 6) 34) Peetri Kindergarten-Basic School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 21) 35) Kose Gymnasium (checkers gomoku, 5) 36) Kilingi-Nõmme Gymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 26) 37) Lilleküla Gymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 16) 38) Tallinn 32nd Secondary School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 14) 39) Tartu Art Gymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 1) 40) Oskar Lutsu Palamuse Gymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 15) 41) Kahtla Kindergarten-Primary School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 17) 42) Palupera Primary School (checkers chess, 9) 43) Loksa Gymnasium (chess sudoku, 3) 44) Võhma Gymnasium (checkers chess sudoku, 9) 45) Ambla Kindergarten-Primary School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 2) 46) Oru School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 2) 47) Paikuse Primary School (checkers chess sudoku, 6) 48) Sillamäe Estonian Basic School (checkers, chess, sudoku, 3) 49) Emmaste Basic School (checkers sudoku, 6) 50) Liivalaia Gymnasium (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 3) 51) Tallinn Ristiku Basic School (gomoku, 1) 52) Uulu Basic School (checkers chess gomoku sudoku, 1) 53) Tallinn Mustamäe Gymnasium (gomoku, 1) 54) Tallinn Tõnismäe Science School (checkers chess, 6) 55) Tallinn Õismäe Gymnasium (gomoku, 1) 56) Nõmme Private School (gomoku, 2)

Yes, although you could invite some classmates to participate too!

There aren't many serious athletes at my school, so there's no one to ask, but how is the regatta going? Is it enough to say I'm participating in a chess tournament?

Send an e-mail to [email protected]. Write your name, class and school and that you are participating in chess.

I would also like to participate, but I have some questions. Should I start competing at school at exactly 2:00 PM? , (e.g. sudoku). Or can I also start at, e.g. 3:30 PM? Last question: how long does one stage of the competition last, i.e. how long do I have to play checkers for example? Waiting for the answers, Helen.

Hi, Yes - in the case of an online tournament, everyone starts at the same time - at 14:00. Maybe you can ask about the last few hours. The checkers tournament lasts about 1h 40 min.

For those who want to participate in gomoku, but the school has not organized it - I have closed Kullo's computer class with about 16 places. So if anyone wants to play there on November 7th, please let me know in advance either in vindis or at [email protected]

The activity of schools in participating in the competition is surprising. At the moment, 50 schools have announced their participation! True, nine of them have not yet submitted a list of students with vint.ee usernames, but there is still a whole week left until the competition - perhaps we will get the information together. The most popular area is checkers - currently 235 students, Sudoku 151, chess 132 and gomoku 102.

It's good to see that there are also participants from my former school (Viljandi Paalalinna Gymnasium, now merged with other gymnasiums and named Viljandi Gymnasium)! I'll keep my fingers crossed for them, of course ;]