Unfortunately, due to funding difficulties, the Mind Sports Zine has not been updated since April 2001. Thank you for your interest.
 Card Games
Bridge
Brian Senior teaches Hand Evaluation.
Euchre, Spades & Hearts
A new series by noted specialist Joe Andrews introduces a trio of games that enjoy immense popularity in the USA.
Card Tips and Tricks
An illustrative and informative series to hone your skills in Hearts, Spades, Euchre and Cribbage.
 Oriental Games
Mah Jong
A comprehensive overview and history to this popular Oriental game.
Handicap Shogi
Top Western player and handicap specialist
Larry Kaufman shows how
handicap play teaches you the heart of shogi in this exclusive Mindzine course.
 Xiangqi
Chinese Chess - Top Finnish player Jouni Tolonen teaches you the game from the
very first steps:
Check out the Xiangqi teaching board!
Bill Brydon teaches with masters:
 Go
Go Openings
Charles Matthews 3-dan
takes a sideways look at the Go openings:
Go Learn
Charles Matthews 3-dan
introduces the game of Go:
 Classic
Backgammon
A quick course in Backgammon basics.
 Proprietary
TwixT
A series for the MSO Mindzine by Twixt connoisseur David Bush
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Watch this space for special articles
and links to help you learn new games, and more about them. We hope to have
a steadily growing team of contributors to this section.
Game and Tournament rules for MSO events
 Oriental Games
Xiangqi:
Headlong plunge
Follow the Xiangqi path of Bill Brydon. 9 June 2000
 Miscellaneous Games
Paul Smith introduces chess variants, mancala, fanorona, and many other games. Click here for an index of Paul's Mindzine articles.
For a full overview of sites associated with a game, go to
Mindlinks.
Recommended links:
Oriental
Renju
The Online Renju Class is a place for studying Renju openings as well as discussing other aspects of Renju interactively. The site contains additional study material for self-students.
Shogi
Japanese chess is well covered on the Internet, and the game's biggest problem,
a lack of English language resources, is gradually getting better and there are
many top-notch sites.
Pieter Stouten's page is considered the best web,
Reijer Grimbergen has excellent news coverage, and Patrick Davin has excellent instructional material.
Go
The rules of Go can be a surprisingly controversial topic. The best way to find
out why is to go to Robert Jasiek's
comprehensive site.
Visit the new and expanding "Interactive Way to Go" for an excellent interactive course aimed at beginners.
The English version of The Magic of Go, the
Daily Yomiuri's Go column, is now written by Rob van Zeijst, and an excellent resource. An archive of Richard Bozulich's columns which starts from learning the rules is also available there.
 Proprietary Games
Gipf
Not just a game, but a project. Intrigued?
Hexdame
A fascinating expansion of Dame - 10x10 draughts
with backwards captures - by converting the squares to hexagons. For a brilliant
introduction, visit the rules page at the Arena.
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