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Mind Sports Olympiad: Backgammon 4x11pt
4 rounds swiss where the winner of each round is the first to win 11 points (a doubling die is used). Bronstein timing - 22 mins per player + 12 secs per move. Crawford rule is used, however Jacoby Rule, Beavers and Automatic Doubling are not used. Tie-break procedure is head-to-head followed by Buchholz (ignoring worst opponent). View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Entropy World Championship
Entropy is a two-player abstract strategic game designed by Eric Solomon in 1977. The game is sold commercially under the names Hyle (for a simplified version played on a 5×5 board) and Hyle7. The game is played on a square 7×7 grid of cells. One player (“Chaos”) draws coloured chips at random from a bag and places each one on the board in an empty space. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Oware
Swiss Pairings over 5 rounds. Clock timings 15 mins + 5 seconds per move. Standard MSO tie-breaks apply, except point spread is not applicable. Grand Slam captures are not allowed. A move that would result in a grand slam instead results in no capture. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico. The aim of the game is to amass victory points by shipping goods to Europe or by constructing buildings. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Twixt World Championship
Swiss pairings over 5 rounds with 20 minutes per player per game. Standard MSO tie-break rules apply. In each game the start player will place their first piece wherever they like, and then the second player gets to choose which colour they wish to be (they can choose the colour that the first player placed). View details
Cinema
The Lion King
Disney's 'The Lion King', directed by Jon Favreau, journeys to the African savannah where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is rife with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. View details
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Transit
A man attempting to escape Nazi-occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Continuo World Championship
Swiss pairings over 4 rounds where each player has 25 minutes per game. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Creative Thinking World
Your task is to explain what is happening in the pictures, what led up to it and what happened next in a way that will put your poor granny’s mind to rest. View details
Cinema
JT LeRoy
His first book Sarah, published in 1999, propelled young JT LeRoy to literary stardom. His semi-autobiographical account of a childhood blighted by drug and sexual abuse in America’s underbelly earned him a cult status and the adoration of both the literati and Hollywood elite. But more shocking than the topics LeRoy’s books explored was the truth behind them, finally exposed in 2006: LeRoy was a well-crafted persona created by Jewish Brooklynite Laura Albert and embodied by her boyfriend’s sister, the androgynous Savannah Knoop. View details
Cinema
Transit
A man attempting to escape Nazi-occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed. View details
Cinema
National Theatre LIVE: The Lehman Trilogy
The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Quiz
Teams of 2 competitors will compete over a series of trivia questions (you can choose your partner). The questions will be set by Bill Hartston who is also running the Creative Thinking World Championship. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Pineapple Hold Em
Played Pot-limit. One of the six events that qualifies for the Amateur Poker World Championship. Pineapple is a variant of Texas Hold 'Em where each player is dealt three cards, instead of the usual two. Players must discard one card after the flop, before betting, leaving two cards in their hand. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Kamisado World Championship
Swiss pairings over 5 rounds of double games. 15 minutes per player for both games. Standard MSO tie-breaks apply. Kamisado is an abstract strategy board game for two players that’s played on an 8×8 multicoloured board invented by Peter Burley who will be giving free demos of this game during the Mind Sports Olympiad. View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: Backgammon 6x1pt
6 round swiss where the winner of each game is the first to bear off all pieces (no doubling die or clocks used). View details
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Mind Sports Olympiad: 7 Wonders
Wonders is a board game created by Antoine Bauza in 2010 and published by Repos Production in English and by Κάισσα in Greek, that won the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2011 View details
Families & Youth
Antenatal Classes with Bump & Baby Club
Feel confident, fully prepared and excited for the arrival of your baby, and gain a new set of friends to share your journey with. Our invaluable course for couples covers everything you need to know about your remaining pregnancy, labour, birth and the early days of parenthood, including baby first aid. View details
Cinema
JT LeRoy
His first book Sarah, published in 1999, propelled young JT LeRoy to literary stardom. His semi-autobiographical account of a childhood blighted by drug and sexual abuse in America’s underbelly earned him a cult status and the adoration of both the literati and Hollywood elite. But more shocking than the topics LeRoy’s books explored was the truth behind them, finally exposed in 2006: LeRoy was a well-crafted persona created by Jewish Brooklynite Laura Albert and embodied by her boyfriend’s sister, the androgynous Savannah Knoop. View details