The 1st World Mind Sports Games is upon us!

The event runs Oct. 3rd through the 18th in China. You can see the English site here for it:
http://www.2008wmsg.org/en/

I believe they will be showing the games over the web. Will need to see regarding that. If hundreds of millions visit this website, we may get an off chance of the event getting greater noticed for it in 2012 in London.

Initial Inductees for IAGO of Halll of Fame to be announced October 20, 2008

As of now, October 20, 2008 (Monday) the initial Inductees into the IAGO Hall of Fame will be released. The information will be released here:
http://www.IAGOHallOfFame.com/

The initial list will consist of abstract strategy games. Books, and people will look to induct later.

IAGO Clubhouse site is now up!

We now have a place to list sites that people can play games at! You can see it here:
http://www.IAGOClubhouse.com

There are over 700 games people can play at these Clubhouse partner sites right now.

Longer term plans for the Clubhouse include searching by game stored in a database, so that people can find a particular site that has a game hey are looking for, and also to store physical locations that are friendly to having abstract strategy game players. Please view the site for more details.

Two events round out the 2008 IAGO World Tour

These three events round out the 2008 IAGO World Tour:

GoldToken Round Robin
Pacru, Azacru & Shacru Championships

The Round Robin consists of Pente and Gomoku, and is over the Internet at Goldtoken.com

Pacru, Azacru and Shacru are modern abstract strategy games that all are part of the Pacru game set. This event will take place at the 12th MSO in England.

Please click on the above links for specific details.

Gipf Series Championship will take place October 2008.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Gipf series, the will be a Gipf Series Championship at the 2008 Mind Sport Olympiad (different event than the MSO in England). It will take place in Prague, CZ. for information on the other events at the even in the Czech Republic, visit here:
http://deskohrani.cz/cgi/mso/index.pl?telo=akce.pl&text=organizatori.htm&jazyk=en&rok=2008%20

For more information on the Gipf Series Championship, please visit: http://www.gipf.com/news.html#championship

Due to timing, this event will miss the IAGO World Tour. It is mentioned here, due to the importance of the Gipf series to the world of abstract strategy games.

New email address for IAGO News.

Just a head's up here. The IAGO News sent via Feedburner tracking, was a defunct email address. I just noticed this now. It has been updated to a new email address:
news [at symbol] IAGOWorldTour.com

Please make a note of this.

The North American Chess Association's G30/G60 events join the 2008 IAGO World Tour

The G30 and G60 events are championship events. They will take place June 28-29, 2008. For more information on the events, visit:
http://www.nachess.org/g30/
http://www.nachess.org/g60/

For the complete 2008 IAGO World Tour schedule, visit:
http://www.IAGOWorldTour.com