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, which has been home to a number of past World Memory Championships, is to host the 2008 UK Open Memory Championships on the 16th and 17th of August. |
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The format will be for a Standard WMSC National Competition and it will be supervised by Chief Arbiter Phil Chambers.
This year for the first time there will be a gala dinner and prize giving on the following day, August 18th.
Across the road in the Strand Palace Hotel it is also planned to hold a half day interactive seminar on Memory on the afternoon of Saturday 16th.
The entry fee for competitors is £20 (£40 to include gala dinner / awards ceremony).
Non-competitors - gala dinner / awards ceremony £50Seminars and Workshops (half day Saturday afternoon only) - £80
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'Beat that!' MIND-BOGGLING MEMORY FEATS
2006 Clemens Mayer (reigning 2005/06 World Champion) from Germany remembered the first and surnames names of 90 people, and Boris Konrad (also from Germany) correctly recalled 214 random words. Both feats were achieved in a mere 15 minutes.
Former World Champion, Ben Pridmore (representing England ) memorised the dates of 96 historical events - in 5 minutes.
For years, memorising a pack of cards in under 30 seconds has been seen as the memory equivalent beating the four minute mile in athletics.
However, in the 2007 UK Memory Championships Ben Pridmore memorised a single shuffled deck of playing cards in 26.28 seconds beating the previous World Record of 31.16 seconds set by Andi Bell.
2005 Dr Gunther Karsten ( Germany ) memorised a 1949 digit number in an hour - and recalled it in under 2 hours.
2002 8 times World Champion, Dominic O'Brien (also from England) successfully set a new Guinness World Record by recalling 54 inter-shuffled decks of playing cards, having seen each card only once.
He made 8 errors out of the 2808 cards, four of which he corrected himself after being told he had made the mistakes.
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The first Memory Yearbook 2008
, the governing body for the Mind Sport of Memory, is proud to announce the publication of the very first Memory Yearbook 2008. For anyone involved in the sport at a competitive level, this new book is an essential.
Every memory competition recognised by the WMSC is included with the results from each discipline. The full World Rankings are included as are the list of all Grand Masters of Memory.
There are articles from and about the top memorisers in the world plus essential information for anyone wanting to organise a memory competition, including a detailed description of each of the ten memory disciplines.
There are reports on the year from the National Memory Sports Councils around the world complete with many photographs of competitions and the personalities in the sport. If you have participated in a memory competition during 2007, you are in the book! The book also looks back at the way the sport first started with articles for the two founders, Ray Keene OBE and Tony Buzan.
There is also information on becoming a member of the International Guild of Mind Sports Arbiters.
and can be obtained from the World Memory or the Buzan websites price plus post and packing within the UK of £2. |
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