Memory champions announced

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The National Memory Championship ran at Mongolia-Japan Center on March 22. At the final stage of the championship, named after the Trade and Development Bank, a total of 52 mental athletes aged 9-34 competed in ten category events such as speed cards, names and faces, numbers marathon, binary digits, flash numbers, five minute random words and ten minute cards, words dates, playing cards and abstract images. The championship was attended by four of five grandmasters of memory of Mongolia. International second rank judge Kh.Khatanbaatar judged the event, where achievements and scores of mental athletes were included in the world rankings. At the end of the championship, Ts.Bat-Erdene (15) was announced as the champion of general and junior categories, where he earned a total of 14 medals and 5466 points. With these results, he advanced into 15th in the world memory ranking, beating his own two world records. The Grandmaster Bat-Erdene was followed by two other grandmasters–O.Sengesamdan and S.Tsogbadrakh. The medal winners were also granted rights to take part in open championships in countries such as Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Philippines and Sweden. The earliest high-level international tournament is the Extreme Memory Tournament in San Diego this April 26-27, to which Ts.Bat-Erdene has been invited as the one of the elite 16 mental athletes. The tournament is aiming to break away from the normal style of memory competition and to try something new and different. The competitors have been chosen based on the current World Memory rankings, making the event extremely competitive and exciting. The Mongolian mental team is expected to participate in the 23rd World Memory Championship in China’s Hainan on December 7 of 2014. The opening of event was attended also by Kh.Khatanbaatar, a director of Mongolian Intellectual Acamedy; S.Orgodol, a deputy chief of TDB; Ch.Bat-Erdene, a president of Asian Draughts Association; N.Uchral, a director of Royal Academy of Mongolia.