Thoughts on mental sports

Hello, In the fall, we will start a mental sports Olympiad in schools in four areas: checkers, chess, gomoku and sudoku. The broader goal is to popularize mental sports among schoolchildren. Part of the plan is to publish an article explaining the nature of mental sports and the activities of the Estonian Mental Sports Association. In order to get constructive feedback on our ideas earlier, I decided to post various topics here on the Vindi forum during the summer, which will eventually lead to one complete article. I will talk about the definition of mental sports (how the Estonian Mental Sports Association defines mental sports and why), the state of mental sports in today's Estonia (which areas are popular, the lack of interest among young people), the connection between mental sports and science, and the need to get young people involved in mental sports. Finally, I will present a plan for how the Estonian Mental Sports Association will make mental sports more attractive to young people and explain in more detail the nature and form of the online Mental Sports Olympiad. As mentioned, we welcome feedback from our users on all topics! Thoughts on Mind Games, Part 2: What is Mind Games? Thoughts on Mind Games, Part 3: Mind Games in Estonia Thoughts on Mind Games, Part 4: Mind Games and Mathematics Thoughts on Mind Games, Part 5: Money and Media

The effect is only temporary, only those young people who have inherited their interest through genes will stick with mental sports anyway. After a year or so, the interest fades and they go their separate ways as adults.

I don't argue and we are not asking for a mass of professional mental athletes to emerge. Mental sports are a hobby - Some go fishing, some collect stamps, some do mental sports.

It will soon be 3 years since I wrote down my first thoughts. I was refreshing the Estonian Mottespordi Liidu page a bit and stumbled upon this series of articles. So what has happened in three years? The biggest achievement is that we have got the Mottespordi Olympiad up and running: 800 students from 70 schools have already participated in the competition this academic year. 1,000 students and 100 schools sounds challenging enough to set this as a goal for the coming years. Of course, we cannot fail to mention the development of Vint.ee during these three years. Vint.ee games are much more reliable today than they were 3 years ago, and today's game server could handle 1,000 simultaneous online users. The popularity of Mottespordi in the media is still a problem. We took it and went on a TV show with Tiidu, Antsu and Kaari to talk a little about mental sports - we'll see in the near future whether it was of any use. But we have to try - the more we push television and use the word "mental sports" there, the greater the hope that mental sports will one day arouse interest in journalists. Let's keep going!

What TV show was that?

The War of the Roses. Should be aired on 15.04.

Well done! But many who didn't take part themselves certainly don't know that sudoku Estonians were even shown on TV3's Seven News, so it seems that TV is starting to take an interest in mind sports, hopefully this trend will continue. By the way, about a month ago, Seven also showed pranks! (y) You are also doing good promotion on Kanal 2, so maybe they will also find a way to mind sports events in the future. The next step would be ETV, where chess has been shown quite well and I think once also gomoku or renju (I could be wrong), but not other areas.