CHESS

CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA INTERNATIONAL

Round IV ? P. Harikrishna (Ind, 3) 4) bt Laurent Fressinet (Fra, 2) Ivan Cheparinov (Bul, 2.5) drew Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 2.5) Jan Timman (Ned, 1) drew Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 1) Oscar De La Riva Aguado (And, 1) drew Izoria Zviad (Geo, 2)

ASIAN TEAM MEET

Isfahan (Iran), Men, Round IX ? Iran B bt Afghanistan 2.5-1.5. Ardeshi Mehrdad bt Asefi Zaheeruddeen Sharbaf Mohsen drew Fidaeyee Habibullah Toufighi Homayoon drew Farazi Khaiber Soleimani Shantiya drew Sarway Hamidullah Vietnam lost to India 1-3. Dao Thien Hai drew Krishnan Sasikiran Surya Sekhar Ganguly bt Nguyen Anh Dung Nguyen Ngoc Truongson drew S. Kidambi Sandipan Chanda bt Le Quang Liem Turkmenistan lost to Iran A 0.5-3.5. Amanmurad Kakageldyev lost to Ghaem Maghami Elshan Moradiabadi bt Sergei Simonenko Amanov Mesgen drew Darban Morteza Khaghani Mehdi bt Bayramsahatov Serdar Round VIII ? Afganistan lost to Iran A 0-4. Asefi Zaheeruddeen lost to Ghaem Maghami Ehsan Moradiabadi bt Fidaeyee Habibullah Farazi Khaiber lost to Darban Morteza Khaghani Mehdi bt Hamidullah India bt Turkmenistan 3.5-0.5. Sasikiran bt Amanmurad Kakageldyev Sergei Simonenko drew Abhijit Kunte S. Kidambi bt Amanov Mesgen Bayramsahatov Serdar lost to Sandipan Chanda Iran B lost to Vietnam 1-3. Ardeshi Mehrdad drew Dao Thien Hai Nguyen Anh Dung drew Mohsen Naser lost to Nguyen Ngoc Truongson Le Quang Liem bt Toufighi Homayoon Round V, Women ? Iran B lost to Vietnam 0-3. Navabi Shirin lost to Nguyen Thi Thanh An Le Thanh Tu bt Salman Mahini Mona Hejazipour Mitra lost to Hoang Thi Bao. Iran A lost to India 0.5-2.5. Shadi Paridar lost to Nisha Mohota Mary Ann Gomes drew Atousa Pourkashiyan G. Pour Shayesteh lost to Swati Ghate

FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

Aston Villa 4 (Milan Baros 35,84, Mark Delaney 48, Juan Pablo Angel 82) Everton 0 Liverpool 2 (Steven Gerrard 14, Shay Given 43 og) Newcastle United 0 Manchester United 3 (Paul Scholes 35, Rio Ferdinand 45+3, Ruud van Nistelrooy 63) West Bromwich Albion 0 Middlesbrough 0 Blackburn Rovers 2 (Shefki Kuqi 38,79) Sunderland 0 Bolton Wanderers 0 Wigan Athletic 4 (Jason Roberts 11,45, Lee McCulloch 23, Henri Camara 71) Manchester City 3 (Antoine Sibierski 3, Joey Barton 77, Andy Cole 88) Portsmouth 1 (Gary ’Neil 17) West Ham United 1 (James Collins 56) Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Robbie Keane 58pen, Jermain Defoe 90+2) Birmingham City 0 Chelsea 3 (William Gallas 3, Frank Lampard 24, Hernan Crespo 74) Fulham 2 (Brian McBride 29, Heidar Helguson 56pen) Charlton Athletic 0 Arsenal 1 (Jose Antonio Reyes 58)

HOCKEY

NEHRU CUP

New Delhi ? Indian Oil 3 (Prabhjot Singh 7, 34, Deepak Thakur 54) Punjab and Sind Bank 1 (Navpreet Singh 52) Bharat Petroleum 1 Punjab National Bank 1 Namdhari XI 2 CRPF 2

For the book

nSweden striker Henrik Larsson plans to leave Barcelona at the end of the season and return to his homeland. "We feel that it is time for us to move home," Larsson was quoted by a Swedish newspaper on Tuesday."There have been many questions about my contract and I think it is good to avoid all this speculation in the future," he said.