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| | List of sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Sports that require little or no physical abilities (see also board games). | | | Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target. | | | Generally sports in which athletes fight or combat each other, usually one-on-one. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports
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| | Mind Sports Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Mind Sports Organisation (MSO) is a vehicle for promoting mental-skill games, including Chess, Go, mastermind, and Scrabble. | | | At MSO tournaments, the Decamentathlon is a composite event in which players compete in ten separate mind sports: memory skills, mental calculation, IQ, bridge, chess, othello, 8 by 8 draughts, Mastermind, and creative thinking. | | | Keene's was more interested in promoting high-profile events — he has been close to Garry Kasparov — and he left to launch the Brain Games group. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Sports_Organisation
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| | Sports learning and TK--Smita Kothuri |
| | Mind Games: Who is playing the game, the body or the mind? | | | Often, the mind may be at a completely different and unrelated place while playing sport. | | | These thoughts reflect the author’s interest in various physical sports, some at the amateur level, some at a professional level and some as a spectator and enthusiast. |
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http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~t656_web/Spring_2002_students/kothuri_smita_sports_learning_tk.htm
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| | Lichtenstein Creative Media - The Infinite Mind: Sports-Minded: The Psychology of Athletic Performance |
| | Carr notes that for some athletes, when they no longer love their sport, it may be time to move on. | | | She plays basketball and runs marathons, which she feels is very much a question of mind over matter. | | | Some tips on triggering a player's ability to concentrate or relax with key words: instead of giving them a word to memorize, let players think of a word that reminds them of how they felt after a successful drill, and use that instead. |
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http://www.lcmedia.com/mind9824.htm
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| | Good Beats: Mind Sports, by Aaron Forsythe - a Magic: the Gathering article |
| | While I'm on the subject, the game of Go also has a built-in anti-tie measure called komi, which results in the player who went second getting a 4-1/2 point handicap, with the half-point preventing identical scores at the end of the game. | | | Sports, being a competitive endeavor, are ubiquitous enough in our society to offer several good reference points that more or less correspond to events or situations that arise in Magic. | | | Go, the most popular game in the world, seems to be the shining star of good-paying Mind Sports. |
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http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/expandnews.php?Article=471
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| | CNN.com - Fierce rivalry in 'Olympics' for brainboxes - August 24, 2000 |
| | Sports are open to allcomers, with beginners' events running alongside professional championships. | | | He can, on the other hand, memorise 18.5 decks of shuffled playing cards in an hour, and a random sequence of 2,079 binary numbers in half that time, enough to win him the Memory Skills gold medal at this year's World Mind Sports Olympiad. | | | Competitors are allowed to enter as many tournaments as they like. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/23/mind.olympiad
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| | Athletes.com - Athletes.com Writer - Sports Training: The Mental Preparation! |
| | Now, obviously we aren't all professional golfers or basketball players, however the same thing applies to sports specific training. | | | While Pennington has not yet reached that level, the point is that imitating the style of a great quarterback has helped him develop and improve into the player he is today. | | | To end the self-motivation section, I'd like to touch base on a particular athlete who in my opinion is one of the most intense and driven players in his particular sport. |
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http://www.athletes.com/fun/sportsprep.htm
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| | Mind Sports Olympiad |
| | Exhibitions of electronic thinking machines and game playing computers, antique chess sets, stamp collections and art exhibitions connected with mind sports, stands selling books on games, a convention for games journalists, games workshops, tuition by experts and the ability to sample new games. | | | And above all, the MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD will be great fun for the players and spectators. | | | The competitors will play each other at a variety of well known strategy games, such as Chess, Backgammon, Bridge, Draughts (Checkers), Go, Shogi and Scrabble, and will compete for gold, silver and bronze medals, and for other prizes. |
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http://www.gamecabinet.com/announcements/MindSportsOlympiad.html
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| | Building Self-Confidence, Improve your Self Confidence - Mind Tools |
| | Where children are compelled to participate in a sport for which they have no aptitude, this can be immensely destructive to self-confidence as failure and lack of self-worth are consistently reinforced. | | | The success attained should be measured in terms of achievement of personal performance goals, not achievement goals such as winning. | | | It will play a large part in determining your happiness through life. |
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http://www.mindtools.com/selfconf.html
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| | IOC: 'Mind' sports must drug test, too - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Although chess and bridge aren't Olympic sports, they're recognized by the IOC and hope to be included in the Games someday. | | | As international sports adopt the first universal anti-drug code, participants in "mind sports" like chess and bridge find themselves being tested for the same banned substances as weightlifters and track stars. | | | Under the new rules, competitive chess and bridge players must even be wary of how much coffee they drink because caffeine is one of the stimulants banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/s_129410.html
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| | The world's greatest sports mind - The Daily Orange - News |
| | Koiki always knew he was going to be a game-show contestant. | | | It wasn’t the first time a classmate teased Koiki for sports knowledge far too advanced and encompassing for one so young. | | | The communal television in Brewster was no place for this uncanny display of sports trivia knowledge. |
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http://www.dailyorange.com/news/2002/02/05/News/The-Worlds.Greatest.Sports.Mind-176510.shtml
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| | MindZine - Second International Roshambo Programming Contest |
| | We claim the world's simplest mind sport requires absolutely no equipment whatsoever - merely two players, each with one hand. | | | Even then, if the players don't have hands, they could probably improvise. | | | No, people can't even agree on the rules of that. |
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http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/miscellany/roshambo.html
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| | The Psychology of Sports Home Page |
| | Today’s sports columns and radio shows rarely go beyond the obvious, mundane and predictable. | | | It seems that the print media cover the same identical stories, and too often subjects never seem to range far from events that cover the playing time of a particular athlete, whether a benching is justified, or how the home team will fare. | | | For provocative columns, interviews, and shows go inside the sport’s mind with Dr. Richard Lustberg and The Psychology of Sports. |
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http://www.psychologyofsports.com
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| | Sarasota Medical & Sports Hypnosis Institute - Adult Sports Department |
| | In other words, you may be capable of playing 90% better than you actually do, and the reason is all in the way you manage your mindbody connection. | | | The Mind Game is not different, and for those who do commit, the benefits are pure gold! | | | he above set of tools are learned, and practiced daily in and out of sports practice. |
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http://www.hypnosis-audio.com/ad_sport.htm
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| | "Mind Body & Sports" - Dr. Ronald L. Kamm |
| | Checklists that parents and children should fill out, pre-season, to determine whether their expectations of the youth sport experience match. | | | To Parents: How to raise a super-star athlete, how to tell if you're pushing your child too hard, how to make the youth sport experience fun for your child. | | | Yet, the latter can often provide the edge that makes the difference between winning and losing. |
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http://www.mindbodyandsports.com
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| | Mind Sports |
| | The phrase 'Mind Sport' might seem somewhat foreign to you, but I can assure you it is a valid one. | | | So, whilst there's no doubt in my mind that the Mind Sport phenomenon exists and is going strong, here's an insight into what Mind Sports make me tick, and how you can join in! | | | At the top of their sport, they can certainly be rewarded for all of their intense training, with the top prize for 2004's FIDE World Chess Championships reaching $100,000. |
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http://www.paulsmith.is-a-geek.net/mind
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| | Virtual Essays - Free Essays on Mind Sports termpapers and book reports! |
| | It is difficult to picture the game as a sport when the most physical activity it seems to require is moving the pieces across the board. | | | FREE ESSAYS It seems almost like an oxymoron to combine the words mind and sport especially when the "sport" under consideration is chess. | | | Cant find it here or need something custom click HERE |
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http://virtualessays.com/viewpaper/9313.html
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| | Sports: Young mind spurs Panthers |
| | The children often become as much a part of the team as the players. | | | Kellie began playing club volleyball at 10, and while her father has been a supportive presence, much of Chris Catanach's advice centers on strategy instead of skills. | | | Kellie's ability to read defenses, then feed her teammates the ball in the perfect scoring position is the main reason the freshman setter will be on the floor tonight when three-time defending champion Plant meets Venice in a Class 5A semifinal at The Lakeland Center. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/11/Sports/Young_mind_spurs_Pant.shtml
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| | World Club Homepage |
| | After three days of grueling competition where the world's top memorisers from fourteen countries battled through ten different disciplines, a new World Memory Champion was declared by the World Memory Sports Council at this years World Memory Championships in Oxford which finished on Monday 15 th August. | | | Prior to the World Championships his personal best memory achievements were to memorise a randomly shuffled pack of cards in 36.14 seconds — a German Record; | | | All playing cards used in the World Championships supplied by Stratus |
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http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com
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| | Competitive Advantage: Sports Psychology and Mental Toughness |
| | Even the fastest, strongest, smartest and most skilled will underachieve if they concentrate on the wrong things, are unable to quickly let go of mistakes or bad breaks, lack self-confidence or can't handle the pressure of competition. | | | If you really want your child to win, then you must learn to play the proper role on the athlete-coach-parent team. | | | As a parent, the principles in sports psychology and youth sports can help you insure that your children enjoy their competitive sports experience, learn quickly and perform to their potential. |
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http://www.competitivedge.com
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| | Tantrix Tournaments Online - 2004 British Open Tantrix Championship |
| | Nearly 50 Tantrix players played, controlled the tournament or spectated, with 35 actually taking part in the biggest table Tantrix tournament yet. | | | The third British Open Table Tantrix Championship took place at the provincial Mind Sports Olympiad event in Cambridge on Saturday & Sunday 1 & 2 May 2004. |
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http://tournaments.tantrix.co.uk/brit2004.shtml
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| | CNN - Mental muscles flexed at Mind Sports Olympiad - August 24, 1997 |
| | The Mind Olympiad was divided into roughly three categories. | | | In the category for board games, competitors faced off in the African Owari, the ancient Chinese Go, and chess. | | | And Communist revolutionary Lenin called chess the gymnasium of the mind, and wanted all good Communists to learn how to play. |
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/24/mind.olympiad
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| | Results of MSO Computer Go Tournament, 2000 |
| | The computer Go event in the Mind Sports Olympiad was played as a double round-robin, with each pair of programs playing twice, with colours reversed. | | | Results of Mind Sports Olympiad Computer Go Tournament | | | For more information on the Mind Sports Olympiad, see the MSO web site. |
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http://www.britgo.org/results/mso2000/computer.html
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| | Results from the 8th Mind Sports Olympiad |
| | Special venue: the Sugden Sports Centre, which is half a mile away from the rest of the events (see map). | | | Please note that all tournaments except for Blitz and Lightning will be BCF graded. | | | Prizes generously sponsored by SI Group, Carta Mundi and Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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http://st.vse.cz/~xkvah01/res1.html
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| | Power Basketball, coaching youth basketball - Dr. Relax, Sports Psychology |
| | Gary Beale has shown me and my student athlete just what the mind can do to control the physical part of a game. | | | I explained to him about Dr. Beale's program and he jumped at the opportunity to "try it out". | | | p class=roman>Mind Games: Sports Psychology for Every Player |
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http://www.powerbasketball.com/beale1.html
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| | Mind Sports Olympiad - definition of Mind Sports Olympiad in Encyclopedia |
| | They hold large tournaments in over 50 mind sports around the world in territories such as the Czech Republic, England, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. | | | Mind Sports Olympiad - definition of Mind Sports Olympiad in Encyclopedia | | | The Mind Sports Organisation is the largest organisation in the world for promoting mind sports. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Mind_Sports_Olympiad
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| | UK Go Challenge |
| | In the British Go Association, we like to call Go the "extreme mind sport". | | | Millions of people play it in China, Japan and Korea, and we think millions will love it here too when they find out about it. | | | Latest News of the 2005 Challenge (3rd July) |
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http://www.ukgochallenge.com
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| | Mind Sports Festival |
| | Other games: At the tournament site there are also other (mind) games to watch and play! | | | Café at the site is open during the tournaments. | | | under the auspices of Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide |
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http://www.ouka.fi/international-oulu/english/mindsport.htm
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| | Hypnosis & Biofeedback for Sports Performance |
| | Every issue is packed with expert advice from the world's top pros guaranteed to shave strokes off your game. | | | You can personalize these affirmations to your sport by adding the name of your sport, position you play or equipment you use. | | | Professional sports teams are using meditation classes and martial-arts techniques to improve the minds of their players. |
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http://www.hypnosisimprovelife.com/sports-hypnosis-biofeedback.html
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| | It was played as part of the second provincial Mind Sports Olympiad event in Cambridge on Saturday 4 May 2002. | | | Top seed Tom McCoy (ENG) (centre of photo) won the British Open Tantrix Championship at the first ever official timed table Tantrix Championship. |
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| | In order to gain more insight into the problem, in 1999 the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport asked the Netherlands Centre for Doping Affairs (NeCeDo) to carry out a study into the relationship between mind sports and doping. | | | Its clients are the government and national sports and sports medicine organisations. | | | The Dutch approach: Pilot project “Mind sports and doping” It is the aim of NOC*NSF, the mind sports’ associations and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport together with NeCeDo, to join forces in formulating a specific way of tackling the misuse of drugs in the mind sports’ world. |
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http://www.sport.nl/attachments/Denksport.doping.engels.doc
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| | Boston.com / Sports / Golf / Mind Games to Secure a Winning Golf Edge |
| | Very few contemporary players underplay the role of the mind-doctor. | | | Mind Games to Secure a Winning Golf Edge | | | The main task facing sports psychologists is to get players to clear their minds and keep things simple, to throw away all doubts and fears. |
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http://www.boston.com/sports/golf/articles/2005/03/14/mind_games_to_secure_a_winning_golf_edge
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| | Mind Sports Olympiad |
| | This means that you do not get knocked out of a tournament if you lose a game - you continue to play against opponents who have | | | All of the chess tournaments at the Mind Sports Olympiad are run on the Swiss system. | | | David Levy reports: We are pleased to announce what we have arranged with regard to the detailed playing schedule for the 6th Mind Sports Olympiad. |
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http://www.bcf.org.uk/national/2002/msosched2002.htm
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| | CBC Sports: Modano changes mind, rejoins Stars |
| | I think he reached that point and realized the grass isn't always greener. | | | Asked to explain why Modano changed his mind, Armstrong responded: "Everyone has to do things to get to a point of being very comfortable. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/08/03/Sports/modano050803.html
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| | Mind Sports Olympiad, 19-28 August 2000 |
| | The whole Mind Sports Olympiad was arranged at very short notice. | | | Only 6 out of 62 qualified, but even so this was a far higher proportion than we normally see at chess events. | | | In any sporting activity everybody wants to see a nail-biting finish. |
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http://www.bcf.org.uk/national/2000/mso2000.htm
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| | Sports Psychology |
| | UF Researcher: Participating in Sports gives Girls Strong Self-Images. | | | Sportspsychology.com is dedicated to providing you with resources to improve your play ability, understanding, and enjoyment of sports. | | | Find experts to help with your mental game, read advice from sports psychology experts and athletes, and enjoy reviews of the best sports books. |
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http://www.psychnet-uk.com/sports_psychology/sports_psychology.htm
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| | Mind Sports Olympiad 2002 – Cambridge |
| | The player should be given the choice to reverse if he wants to. | | | If he does not make up his mind within 3 seconds the program should assume no reverse capture, and continue with relay sowing instead. | | | Notify us of any bugs and we will liaise with Jochen to test it further. |
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http://www.geocities.com/omweso/computergame.html
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| | Mind Sports - Sports & Recreation - Bedford, MA, 01730-1422 - Citysearch |
| | Find scary costumes, Halloween parties, spooky haunted houses, ghosts, witches, goblins and more Halloween horror in Boston. | | | Mind Sports - Sports & Recreation - Bedford, MA, 01730-1422 - Citysearch | | | Home · Yellow Pages · Sports & Recreation · Sporting Goods · Profile |
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http://boston.citysearch.com/profile/34221715
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| | Gipf: I play the game |
| | Werner Dupont (B), being the highest ranked player of the lot, was the favourite and, with 6 wins in the first 6 rounds, he convincingly lived up to his status. | | | Two years ago he had already won the first GIPF tournament that took place during a Mind Sports Olympiad, but at that time it wasn't called a WC yet. | | | Any way, according to the MSO stipulations Werner may call himself the first "International GIPF Grand Master" now. |
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http://www.gipf.com/gipf/results/results2001_msowc.html
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| | Business Wire: Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd.: Brain Awards Encourage Website Visitors to Make History |
| | This annual event encompasses more than 30 classic games including Chess, Bridge, Backgammon, Go as well as several mental skills such as Memory Skills, Creative Thinking, Intelligence and Speed Reading. | | | Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd. of London, England, is the organiser of the Mind Sports Olympiad. | | | MSO Worldwide's website at http://www.msoworld.com was created to help achieve their goal of spreading Mind Sports throughout the real and virtual worlds. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_March_21/ai_60379201
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| | Pete Solana: Sports hypnotist/ mind coach |
| | But if they stay with those keys, they're going to perform at their best. | | | "The day you're born, the hearing goes on, the senses go on, everything goes on, and that brain and that mind has no information, and it starts to get information into it, and this is like environmental information that starts pouring into a biocomputer. | | | And you can apply those to any sport." |
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http://www.thejournalnews.com/golf/may04/qanda.html
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| | Arkcity.net: Sports - Open mind: Leonard seeks to relive dog days 07/14/04 |
| | TROON, Scotland -- His dog is named Troon's Magical Sunday, so you probably can guess how good a day it was for Justin Leonard on that mid-July Sunday at the 1997 British Open. | | | Arkcity.net: Sports - Open mind: Leonard seeks to relive dog days 07/14/04 | | | Register here to receive the Traveler e-mail updates. |
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http://www.arkcity.net/stories/071404/spo_0004.shtml
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| | Dr. Relax |
| | With Dr. Gary Beale's personalized Mind Games tapes, your personal goals, whatever they may be, are attainable. | | | Some of his most notable work has been with NFL championship teams such as the St. Louis Rams, Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | | | Unlock the Hidden Powers of Your Mind and Gain a Competitive Edge |
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http://www.doctorrelax.com
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| | Giochi Sforzeschi - Mind Sports Festival |
| | The final list of the games involved is available online. | | | This event is promoted and organized by the Italian Go Federation, with the aim of bringing people in Italy closer to the “mind sports” that not always get all the attention they deserve, and to join several Associations resources in order to obtain a better media coverage that will help in promoting the different games. | | | The Giochi Sforzeschi - Mind Sports Festival is a big event which will take place in Milan from the 4th to the 8th december 1999, supported by the Townhall of Milan and the Lombardy Region. |
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http://www.figg.org/giochisforzeschi
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| | Control Your Subconscious |
| | Getting removed from the newsletter is quick and easy so go ahead and sign up. | | | Well, I am not some insular academic who is happiest by themselves with no interaction with people. | | | I found myself looking forward to the next chapter as he covered everything from subconscious mind control, (and the reason it's important to identify when the subconscious is lying to you), to anger, relationships and other mood swings. |
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http://www.fixyourbrain.com
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