About

World Mind Games is an independent editorial site about mind sports — the competitive board and card games in which skill, calculation and memory decide the outcome. We cover seven disciplines: chess, go, draughts, xiangqi, bridge, mahjong and backgammon.

What You Will Find Here

• Rules and strategy for each discipline — written to take you from your first game to confident club-level play.
• Playable browser boards — play chess, draughts and xiangqi against the computer, solve go problems, and train your bridge bidding. Everything runs locally in your browser; no account, no downloads.
• A daily logic puzzle — one new Stones puzzle every day at midnight UTC.
• Cognitive tests — reaction time, sequence memory, number memory and dual n-back, with honest context about what such scores do and do not mean.
• The historical record — results, medal tables and stories from international mind sports competition, including the World Mind Games held in Beijing from 2011 to 2014.

Our Approach

Mind sports writing tends to come in two flavors: dry federation documents or content-farm filler. We aim for the middle ground — accurate enough to cite, readable enough to enjoy. Where research is contested (brain training is the obvious example), we present the evidence rather than the marketing claim.

Questions or corrections? See the contact page.