PRESS RELEASE (SUMMARY) – Monday 27th October 2008

NEW MEMORY AND MENTAL CALCULATION WORLD RECORDS EXPECTED IN MEMORIAD™ (MEMORY OLYMPIAD) 2008 AS ISTANBUL, TURKEY HOSTS AN EVENT TO REMEMBER

ISTANBUL: (27th October 2008): For the first time both top memory and mental calculation brains will compete in Memoriad (Memory Olympiad) 2008 in İstanbul, Turkey. The event, organized by the Memoriad Foundation, will take place on 1st and 2nd of November at the Marmara Hotel, under the patronage of the Turkish Tourism and Culture Ministry.

2008 World Memory Champion Ben Pridmore, 2008 Mental Calculation Champion Alberto Coto Garcia, and former other champions such as Gunther Karsten, Andi Bell, Jan van Koningsveld, Rüdiger Gamm, Johannes Mallow, Jorge Arturo MENDOZA HUERTAS, Robert Fountain are just a few world celebrity brains that will compete in Istanbul.

Over 40 competitors from over 10 countries will take part over two days in the most eight different comprehensive test of memory and mental calculation disciplines. These include Binary Numbers; Names and Faces; Numbers Marathon; Speed Cards; Speed Mental Multiplication, Speed Mental Addition, Mental Square Roots and lastly Mental Calendar Dates. Winner of each categories will be given 1500. – US $. Second place of each categories will be given 750. – US $ and third place of each categories will be given 500. – US $ respectively. Total 22. 000. – US $ will be given out. Sponsor of the prize money is the Memoriad Foundation.

Current records and record holders of memory and mental calculation categories are;

For the first time, Memoriad competitions will be managed by a professional software called Memoriad Competition Simulator. With this improvement manual evaluation errors of results will be totally eradicated. Memoriad software, prepared by Memoriad Foundation, can be downloaded from www.memoriad.com free of charge by all prospective competitors to practice with it. This means that everybody can test himself or herself with this free software.

At the opening ceremony of Memoriad, Bernett Orlando will do a blindfolded Rubik's cube show. Rudiger Gamm, the human calculator; Ulrich Voight, the Pi Man; and finally John Louis, the memory man will do some extraordinary mental calculation and memory shows.

Mr. Melik Duyar, the chairman and the founder of Memoriad, says "Our mission is to support the development of human brain through memory and mental calculation games. By organising such events we also contribute to world peace with mental sports Olympiad".

Mr Duyar went on to say that the event will also be record breaking with the greatest number of top memory and mental calculation mental athletes from the most wide range of countries ever, including Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, USA, Algeria, England, Peru, Turkey, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, Mongolia and Lebanon. Mr Duyar also added that they plan to organise the next memoriad in the Continent of America.

MEMORIAD, also a trade mark in 148 countries as Memory Olympiads, is an organisation that holds memory, mental calculation and photographic speed reading championships all over the world. Although MEMORIAD takes place every four years internationally in parallel to Olympic Games. The World Memoriad Comittee supports National Yearly Memoriads financially in different countries.

Issued by Memoriad Organisation, a more detailed press release can be downloaded from www.memoriad.com in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish languages. For further information, please contact to Mr. Sinan Kilic , on Turkish telephone number +90-312-4173330 or send email to pr@memoriad.com .