Top brains vying for world memory title…
TODAY will see the start of a gruelling three-day competition in which some of the brightest minds in the world will be vying for the title of champion.
The World Memory Championship (WMC), brought to Bahrain by Intelnacom, will test the human brain’s mnemonic skills based on 10 disciplines, including historic dates, speed cards, names and faces.
Around 80 international competitors will be taking part in the championship, which is being held for the first time in the Middle East and second time outside the UK.
The competition comes as part of the Festival of the Mind, which opened last night.
National Guards Commander Major General Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa Al Khalifa was among the VIPs, who attended the event as well as Intelnacom chief executive officer Professor Dr Bernd Hoefer.
The competition will run until Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Bahrain Conference Centre.
Organised by SJ Media Group, it will host a series of workshops, exhibitions and mind games, including chess, sudoku and scrabble competitions, X-Box games and IQ testing that will be open to the public.
Guest speakers at the festival will include founder of the WMC and inventor of Mind Maps, Tony Buzan and eight-time WMC champion Dominic O’Brien, who is also a Guinness Book record holder after successfully memorising 54 decks of playing cards (2,808) cards after only a single sighting of each card.
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This is very interesting! I wish I could play in it.
On Amazon.com, search for…
Lucas Memory
…to see several books or CDs about mnemonic tricks.
I have used Lucas’ imagery techniques to memorize all the names of students in a classroom from only one real-time go-around where everyone says their name.
It does take work and practice before you can use his technique quickly; but you can use it slowly right away.
G
My site http://www.NakedScience.com is about memory techniques.
In the archive, I even tried to think up a way of remembering chess moves:
http://www.nakedscience.com/memory/blindfold%20chess.htm
I don’t have an affinity with chess (not just because the ‘en passant’ move always seemed like an unfair rule to me).
The Links section includes the Yahoo Group ‘Memory Sports’ where some of the competitiors give advice, etc..
I truly enjoyed a recent tv programme about amazing minds and how it focused on Susan Polgar’s abilities. The ‘chunking’ theory was so well demonstrated, and Susan Polgar seemed like a very good sport to go along with it.
Mike
Why don’t you check this website. It is World MEMORy olympIAD (MEMORIAD).
http://www.memoriad.com
In this mental sports olympiad world memory championships, mental calculation world cups and photographic speed reading competitions are all combined.
There are also great money prizes for the winners of all categories. So friends do not miss this website;
http://www.MEMORIAD.com