INTELLECTUAL OPEN TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolian intellectual athletes have won the first place by team score in an open tournament which ran in Mumbai of India on August 31. Some 80 athletes from Mongolia, India, Sweden, the USA, and Indonesia have competed in ten categories of visual and hearing memory tests. Our team with three was headed by a trainer and international 2nd class umpire Kh.Khatanbaatar, the chairman of Mongolia's Intellectual Academy. The team won nine medals out of possible 30, ranking at first place in total score and setting two new world records. International champion E.Enkhmunkh, 16, won two gold, two silver and one bronze medals, thus ranking at second in overall and winning the first place in the medium age. By memorizing a deck of cards in sequence within 30 seconds, he broke a record of a Chinese. Z.Tsetsegzul, 14, a medium-age silver-medalist of the world championship held in London last year, won two bronze medals and the second place in the medium age, thus ranking at fifth in overall. T.Enkhjin, 16, a champion of previous tournament in Philippines, won a silver and a bronze medals, set a new world record in “Binary count” category by memorizing 750 ciphers within five minutes, overtaking Tsetsegzul’s 736. Intensifying the competitions, the third in a world rank Swedish Jonas Von Essen, the international grand master, won the Cup in the tournament. The chairman of Intellectual Academy thanked the athletes’ families and friendly staff of “State Bank” for supporting them in achieving such successes. Now another international tournament awaits, to take place in Hong Kong this September 13-14. A team of ten from the academy will partake in the forthcoming events.