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"World Bridge Games" [14] or Bridge at the World Mind Sports Games (quadrennial, next 2020) World Masters Individual [15] —from 1992 Open and Women (Juniors 2000 only) World Team Olympiad [16] —1960–2004 national teams events; Open and Women incorporated in the Games 2008 and "Senior International Cup" continued as a non-medal event
The World Bridge Games are held quadrennially. The first two events were held in 2008 and 2012, in Beijing and Lille respectively, as part of the World Mind Sports Games (WMSG), and superseding the World Team Olympiad, which had been held every four years from 1960 to 2004. More than half of the 2008 WMSG participants were bridge players.
World Bridge Series Championships is the new 2010 name for a quadrennial meet organized by the World Bridge Federation in non-leap even years. (Another meet, the World Bridge Games, is held quadrennially in leap years.) Most of its world championship events are open in the sense that entries do not represent geographic zones or nations.
The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist.Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late 19th and early 20th centuries to form the present game.
The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004. Its main events were world championships for national teams , always including one open and one restricted to women ("Open" and "Women" categories in WBF terms).
The IMSA formerly organized the World Mind Sport Games, whose first rendition was held in Beijing, China 3–18 October 2008 about two months after the Beijing Olympic Games. The second Games in 2012 would have been formally announced 17 November during the 2011 Mind Sports Festival in London, except that they failed to secure a venue by that time.