 The Nanjing tournament will become one of the grand slam events similar to Corus chess tournament, M-Tel Masters, and Linares chess tournament.The First National Mind Sports Games took place in 13 to 23 November 2009 in Chengdu, Sichuan.The event is sponsored by General Administration of Sport of China and was participated by over 2, 600 competitors from 46 parties in China, took part in some 43 events of six disciplines.