Mind sport
A mind sport is a game of skill where the Mental exercise component is more significant than the physical.
Etymology
The first major use of the term was as a result of the Mind Sports Olympiad in 1997 described as the Olympics of the mind. The phrase had been used prior to this event such as backgammon being described as a mind sport by Tony Buzan in 1996,. Bodies such as the memory council use the term retrospectively.
It is a term that became fixed from games trying to obtain equal status to sports. For example from 2002 British Minister for Sport, Richard Caborn said:
Many of the games official bodies which had come together for the Mind Sports Olympiad, formed larger organisations such as the Mind Sports Council and International Mind Sports Association (IMSA). With IMSA organising the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing 2008 for contract bridge, chess, go, draughts and xiangqi many other bodies have lobbied for inclusion such as the International Federation of Poker, which won provisional membership at the annual congress of SportAccord in Dubai in 2009.