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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A State Honored Sportsman and four-time Asian champion D.Erdenebileg is competing in the World Mind Games (WMG) started on Wednesday in Beijing, China. Our player is participating in the 10x10 draughts contest. The Draughts competitions at the Games are guided by the World Draughts Federation (FMJD). Twenty-eight players (12 women, 16 men) are competing in the disciplines: Men's 100 blitz, Women's 100 blitz, Men's 100, Women's 100. Additionally, four players will deliver Checkers demonstration events. The WMGs are a multi-sport event centered on the gymnasium of the mind and highlighting the great value of the mind sports. The first edition in 2011 included five mind sports of great popularity and influence worldwide - Bridge, Chess, Draughts, Go and Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). The event showed some top-level mind games performances with the world's best players. The WMs are spread and known throughout the world since ancient times and their educational values are widely recognized. They combine the fun of playing games and the enhancement of concentration, logic, memory, mathematics, literacy, learning skills, decision making and socializing skills, etc. Ever more countries and regions integrate the mind sports as an important part of their education programmes. Mind sports suit well a wide range of people not only in terms of age; these sports can be equally played by people with certain physical disability. These traditional games, where intelligence, strategy and intuition are protagonists, combined with innovative and modern elements, can create and bring new and unique experiences to a large and highly diversified group of people. ** ** ** The national football team of Mongolia has been included in the “C” group at the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup qualification phase, alongside Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Laos. The qualification draw was held on 11 December 2012, in AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The “A” Group has included Myanmar, India, Chinese Taipei and Guam; the “B” Group--Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Macau; “D” Group--Nepal, Palestine, Bangladesh and Northern Mariana Islands; and the “E” Group--the Philippines, Turkmenistan, Cambodia and Brunei. In accordance with the schedule, the Mongolia team will do their preliminary matches on March 2, 4 and 6, 2013 in Laos. B.Khuder