As Britain’s physical athletes clock up record hauls of gold medals in Beijing, our mental athletes have been seeking to make their own mark in London in the UK Open Memory Championships at Simpsons in the Strand over the weekend of August 16 and 17. Read more

French Open Memory Championships

The first French Open Memory Championships will take place on September 20th 2008 in a small town 13km to the west of Paris called Maisons-Laffitte. The event will be in French, English and German and will be supervised by WMSC Chief Arbiter Phil Chambers. The organiser is Françoise Thuillier who can be contacted on fm.thuillier@orange.fr

20 September 2008 Maisons-Laffitte, France French Memory Championship www.championnat-memoire.fr

The organiser is Françoise Thuillier who can be contacted on fm.thuillier@orange.fr Read more

Dear Mental Calculators & Memorizers,
It is pleasure for me to invite you to MEMORIAD 2008 which
will be held on 1 - 2 November in Istanbul, Turkey.

The detailed timetable of Memoriad-2008 is given below;
30th October Arrivals
31st October City Tour of Istanbul for Participants
1st November - Memoraid Day - 1
Numbers Marathon,
Mental Multiplications,
Names & Faces,
Mental Square Roots
2nd November - Memoraid Day - 2
Speed Cards,
Mental Calendar Dates,
Binary Digits,
Mental Additions Read more

Congratulations to Jennifer Goddard for becoming the first Senior Arbitor at the World Memory Championships.

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The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey

01-02 November 2008

MEMORIAD® (World Mental Computation, Memory and Photographic Reading Olympics) consists of the following total nine sub-categories. The competitor can participate in either one category or several categories he or she chooses, and he/she can also participate in all categories. The participant is expected to mark in which categories he/she would like to participate in the application form.

1

SPEED CARDS

Aim : To commit to memory and recall a deck of 52 playing cards.

2

NAMES AND FACES Read more

To celebrate the first Thailand Open Memory Championships, we have released a series of 10 videos to provide insight into how a National Memory Championships is run.

These 3-4 minute on-line presentations are suitable for people interested in competing in a memory event, volunteers who help adjudicate and journalists and other people interested in how a memory championships is run.

01 Random Words

02 Binary Numbers Read more

Why do millions watch 22 people run around chasing after a little white ball in order to kick it into a net?

Find out what the fascination with soccer and memory competitions have in common in an interview with Tony Buzan http://www.buzan.com.au/b-tube/audio_interview.html

I am off to Bangkok next week to convene the Thailand Memory Championships. Will keep you posted...