UK Teams get 6th and 12th places

The two UK teams ended 6th and 12th in their respective groups at the World Mind Sports Games.

UK 1 ended with three wins in the 14-team B Group to get a very good 6th position. On the second day of the event they lost 3-0 to Chinese Taipei 1, lost 2-1 to Japan 1 and beat Australia 2-1.

UK 2 beat Romania 2 in round 3, lost to Macau in round 4 and beat Italy 2 in round 5, all matched 3-0, to end 12th in the 16-team A Group.

The teams that qualified for the knock-out stage were Chinese Taipei 1 (the only unbeaten team) and Russia in B Group and Chinese Taipei 2 and Singapore in A Group (on tie-break from Austria and Czech Republic).