IAGO is now up on Twitter, for news updates

IAGO has joined the whole Twitter insanity bit. Bite-size news regarding IAGO can be found here:
http://twitter.com/IAGONews

So, follow that, click on that, and so on.

Initial schedule for 2009 IAGO World Tour is up.

There is likely more events that will be added, and dates finalized, but you can see the 2009 IAGO World Tour schedule here:
http://2009.IAGOWorldTour.com

Initial Inductees into the IAGO Hall of Fame revealed.

These are the initial 10 inductees into the IAGO Hall of Fame:
1. Checkers (Anglo-America)
2. Chess
3. Go
4. Gomoku
5. Hex
6. Hnefatafl
7. Nine Man Morris
8. Oware
9. Shogi
10. Xiangqi

For more information, visit the IAGO Hall of Fame site at:
http://www.IAGOHallOfFame.com

USA wins medals at the World Mind Sports Games

USA won Gold at Checkers (8x8, 3-move restriction) and Bronze at Bridge:
http://info.2008wmsg.org/en-us/Medals_NOC.aspx?D1=USA&xm=noth

The winner of the Gold, Alexander Moiseyev, also won the 3-Move restriction tournament that was on the 2008 IAGO World Tour schedule. He is the current World Champion at this event.

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.