5/20/2019 – The IMSA Mind games Rapid section had been won by Anton Korobov and Alexandra Kosteniuk. After three days of rapid, it was now time for 22 rounds of 3'+2" blitz. Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi played a solid and stable event and with 14½/22 took home the gold. The silver was won by Korobov and the bronze by Rapport. In the women's section it was a fierce fight to the finish line between Lei Tingjie and Kosteniuk. The Chinese player won the gold, Kosteniuk the silver and Tan Zhongyi bronze.

12/21/2017 – Huaian, China hosted the International Mind Games Association's competition of five mind sports, including chess, which was represented by rapid, blitz and Basque (two simultaneous games) formats. Vladislav Artemiev won the blitz and Dmitry Andreikin took the rapid tournaments for the men, Alexander Grischuk the Basque tournament. For women, the winners are Antoaneta Stafanova and Zhao Xue. | Photo: Gu Xiaobing

3/9/2016 – Following the Rapid tournaments won by Tan Zhongyi and Mamedyarov respectively, it was time for the Blitz events, which were 30-game marathons, followed by the Basque competitions in which the players play two games at the same time, one with white and one with black. All the modalities and time controls were chosen with public appeal in mind, and they certainly were fun to watch.

3/7/2016 – The IMSA Mindgames, is a bit of an in-between for FIDE, as far as chess is concerned, and the Olympics (the normal one, not the chess specific one). Each year it organizes a series of chess events, with a number of top players, offering medals as well as prizes. In this years event were rapid, blitz and basque chess. Here is a large illustrated report.