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Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd.
12 St. James' Square, London SW1Y 4RB, England
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Company Press Release:
Tuesday, January 4, 2000 | |
New Computer Programming Contest at Msoworld.com offers a $500 Prize - and anyone can enter!
MSO Worldwide Ltd. today announced that it will be holding regular Computer
Programming Tournaments through its web site at www.msoworld.com.
Designed for any programmer that likes a good challenge, the contest is
something that Mind Sports Olympiad founder, David Levy, has had in mind
for quite some time.
"We've wanted to offer something like this at the Olympiad for a while now
but it wasn't until the introduction of our new web site that the perfect
vehicle for promoting it became available," says Levy, "We're very
optimistic about the turn-out for the contest both on the web site and
within the Mind Sports Olympiad itself."
Through the web site, MSO Worldwide intends to locate its programming
"champions" and continue the competition during the Mind Sports Olympiad,
an annual competition for board games, classic games, creative thinking,
memory skills, puzzles and now computer programming. Each winner of the
monthly programming challenge receives a cash prize of $500 and a chance to
compete for more prizes during the Mind Sports Olympiad at the end of
August. An estimated 15,000 people will attend the 10 day event this year.
Levy admits that the World Wide Web has made such a contest far more
possible than it would have been in the past. "It's been hard to reach
everyone we wanted to. A contest just isn't a contest without a wide
spread of competitors. The web allows us to reach anywhere that mind sports
are taking place."
Programs submitted will be judged based upon a scoring system which gives
quantitative measures to programming time, program efficiency (speed of
execution) and code compactness (elegant programming). The MSO Worldwide
Computer Programming Challenge is also unique because it is designed for
individuals to compete rather than teams. This and the fact that it's
being offered initially through the MSO website only, makes it the only
competition of its kind anywhere.
Those interested in competing are invited to visit the MSO website at
http://www.msoworld.com/programming.html to see the contest rules. The
first contest will take place in the second week of January.
ABOUT MSO
Mind Sports Organisation Worldwide Ltd. of London, England, is the
organiser of the Mind Sports Olympiad. 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. Players compete for the honour of winning
Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, rankings and titles, and for cash prizes.
The company was founded by well known mind sports personalities, Tony
Buzan, Raymond Keene and David Levy. 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. That web site
is now well on its way to becoming one of the premier mind sports sites on
the web, having recently won a Netscape "Cool Siting" award.
Media Contact:
David Levy, Tel: +44 20 7435 9496 –
E-mail: dlevy@msoworld.com
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