'Mind Games' test for young.Byline: ANIQA HAIDER FIFTY-THREE individuals have already registered for Bahrain's second annual Festival of the Mind, organisers announced yesterday. It has incorporated a competition for children this year to encourage further involvement from the community. The event is being organised by Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibition (MICE) Management and hosted by Intelnacom - Bahrain. It will take place at the Gulf Hotel's Gulf International Convention Centre, from October 23 to 26. Schools and universities can enter a team of 16 pupils who will each take turns competing in four disciplines - chess, Scrabble, dhama and sudoku. Other students can support their team and can also take part in a workshop that introduces each of these games and help newcomers learn how to play. "The idea of the festival is to encourage learning in a fun way", said Intelnacom deputy chief executive officer Fuad Mubarak. "We are encouraging people to understand how to develop the capacity of their mental ability through a number of events that are entertaining and fun for all - we call it 'Edu-taining'. The World Memory Championship (WMC WMC Winter Music Conference WMC Weill Medical College (Cornell University) WMC Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (Madison, WI) WMC Westchester Medical Center WMC Western Mining Corporation ) will also take place in Bahrain for the second year running during the festival. Founder Tony Buzan This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. praised Bahrain as a venue and said that he is looking forward to the event. In addition to the Inter-School's Challenge, there will also be an Inter-University Challenge where Bahrain universities can also enter teams to take up the challenge in the four disciplines. Intelnacom will also be helping people gear up for the event by undertaking a Community Challenge in local malls in the weeks leading up to the festival, details of which will be announced shortly. The disciplines undertaken during the WMC are not culturally or language-specific to ensure a level playing field See net neutrality. for international competition. Subjects include spoken numbers, playing cards playing cards, parts of a set or deck, used in playing various games of chance or skill. The origin of playing cards is unknown, and almost as many theories exist as there are historians of the subject. , dates, abstract images, binary digits, random words and names and faces. Dr Gunther Karsten of Erfurt, from Germany, won the 16th WMC last year, ousting his closest competitor and previous world champion Ben Pridmore Ben Pridmore, born October 14, 1976 in Boston, England, was the World Memory Champion in 2004. He achieved this by winning a ten-discipline competition, the World Memory Championship, which has taken place every year since 1991. of England. Accuracy The annual WMC represents one of the toughest mental tests mental tests: see intelligence; psychological tests. of all time with competitors being asked to memorise Verb 1. memorise - commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" memorize, con, learn understudy, alternate - be an understudy or alternate for a role 4,000 digit numbers and recall with absolute accuracy at least 10 packs of cards in one hour. Entry fee is BD2, including registration and workshops. The official handlers are Global Tourism Club, media sponsors are Al Watan Newspaper and the Gulf Daily News (GDN GDN Garden (postal suffix) GDN Gdansk, Poland - Rebiechowo (Airport Code) GDN Global Data Network GDN Goods Dispatch Note GDN Global Disaster Network (Yahoo group) ) and diamond sponsors are Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB EDB ethylene dibromide; a grain fumigant toxic to chickens. ), Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) and Microsoft. For more information visit the website www.worldfestivalofthemind.com. To sponsor the event, please call Carol Melrose on 39608905. aneeqa@gdn.com.bh Copyright 2008 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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