CHESS

GIBRALTAR MEET

Round VI ? Jonathan Speelman (GBR, 5) drew Kiril Georgiev (Bul, 5) Viktor Bologan (Mda, 5) bt Viktor Korchnoi (Sui, 4) Anton Aaberg (Swe, 4.5) drew Mikhail Kobalia (Rus, 4.5) Sergey Volkov (Rus, 4.5) drew Zoltan Gyimesi (Hun, 4.5) Peter Wells (GBR, 4.5) bt Alexie Shirov (Esp, 3.5) Vladimir Akopain (Arm, 4.5) bt Pia Cramling (Swe, 3.5) S. Kidambi (Ind, 4) drew Nigel Short (GBR, 4) Alexander Areshchenko (Ukr, 4) drew Tejas Bakre (Ind, 4) Zahar Efimenko (Ukr, 4) drew Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul, 4) Colin McNab (Sco, 3.5) lost to Mikhail Gurevich (Tur, 4.5) Evgenij Agrest (Swe, 3.5) lost to Mohamad Al Sayed (Qat, 4.5) Mohamad Al-Modaihki (Qat, 4.5) bt Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Ind, 3.5) Nicholas Speck (Aus, 4) drew Abhijit Kunte (Ind, 4) Nisha Mohota (Ind, 3.5) lost to Arizmendi Martinez (Esp, 4.5) Sandipan Chanda (Ind, 4.5) bt Marcel Peek (Ned, 3.5) Anupama Gokhale (Ind, 3) lost to Kevin Spraggett (Can, 4) John Shaw (Sco, 4) bt Swati Ghate (Ind, 3) Jeroen Van Den Bresellaar (Ned, 2.5) lost to Surya Sekhar Ganguly (Ind, 3.5) Bhagyashree Thipsay (Ind, 2.5) lost to Milos Pavlovic (SCG, 3.5) Kruttika Nadig (Ind, 3.5) bt Margarida Coimbra (Por, 2.5) Mary Ann Gomes (Ind, 3.5) bt Alan Dunn (Nzl, 2.5) Abderezzak Slimani (Mar, 2) lost to Nimmy George (Ind, 3)

WIJK AAN ZEE MEET

Final round ? Michael Adams (GBR, 7.5) drew Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze, 4.5) Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 7.5) drew Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 7) Peter Leko (Hun, 6.5) drew Veselin Topalov (Bul, 9) Levon Aronian (Arm, 6.5) bt Ivan Sokolov (Ned, 4) Gata Kamsky (US, 4.5) lost to Sergeiti Viakov (Ned, 6.5) Viswanathan Anand (Ind, 9) bt Boris Gelfand (Isr, 7) Etienne Bacrot (Fra, 5.5) drew Loek Van Wely (Ned, 6)

FOOTBALL

ENGLISH FA CUP

Round IV ? Portsmouth 1 Liverpool 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers (II) 0 Manchester United 3

LIGUE 1

Lille 3 (Abdul Kader Keita 5, Gregory Wimbee 53 og, Efstathios Tavlaridis 64) Metz 1 (Stephane Borbiconi 90)

BUNDESLIGA

Kaiserslautern 0 Schalke 04 2 (Lincoln 13, Levan Kobiashvili 78 pen) Arminia Bielefeld 0 Werder Bremen 1 (Frank Fahrenhorst 72)

SERIE A

Lecce 0 Inter Milan 2 (Luis Figo 72, Dejan Stankovic 90+3) Empoli 1 (Francesco Tavano 59 pen) Parma 2 (Marco Marchionni 44, Marco Bresciano 79) Treviso 0 Lazio 1 (Tommaso Rocchi 87) Ascoli 1 (Marco Ferrante 33) Juventus 3 (David Trezeguet 8, 13, 18) Udinese 0 Fiorentina 0 Messina 1 (Arturo Di Napoli 88) Cagliari 0 Chievo Verona 4 (Amauri 47, 88 pen, Sergio Pellisier 74, 90+4) Reggina 0 AS Roma 3 (Francesco Totti 31, 40pen, Rodrigo Taddei 62) Livorno 0

PRIMERA LIGA

Celta Vigo 1 (Matias Lequi 40) Real Madrid 2 (Robinho 17, Cicinho 57) Real Mallorca 0 Barcelona 3 (Ludovic Giuly 39, Lionel Messi 75, 81) Osasuna 0 Real Betis 2 (Luis Fernandez 34, Edu 60) Espanyol 3 (Raul Tamudo 10, 21, Luis Garcia 32) Malaga 1 (Alexis 40) Sevilla 2 (Luis Fabiano 30, Frederic Kanoute 58) Villarreal 0 Valencia 2 (Patrick Kluivert 83, Pablo Aimar 89) Real Zaragoza 2 (Sergio Garcia 45+1, Ewerthon 64) Alaves 3 (Santiago Carpintero 34, John Aloisi 58, 86) Real Sociedad 1 (Dalibor Stevanovic 90)

AFRICAN NATIONS CUP

Group B ? Angola 3 (Flavio 9, 39, Maurito 86) Togo 2 (Mohamed Abdel Kader 24, Cherif Toure-Maman 65) Cameroon 2 (Geremi 31, Samuel Eto’ 33) DR Congo 0

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Sunday ? Mohun Bagan 1 (Mehtab Hussain 64) Dempo 1 (Bolaji Mejeck 61)

GOLF

SAN DIEGO INVITATIONAL

Round IV ? 278 Tiger Woods (US) 71 68 67 72, Jose Maria Olazabal (Esp) 74 64 71 69, Nathan Green (Aus) 67 70 69 72. Woods wins play-off at the second extra hole. 279 Jonathan Kaye (US) 67 73 71 68, John Rollins (US) 69 70 71 69, Lucas Glover (US) 71 67 70 71, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 70 67 71 71 280 Phil Mickelson (US) 71 67 69 73, Sergio Garcia (Esp) 69 68 68 75 281 Henrik Bjornstad (Nor) 68 72 70 71, Tim Clark (RSA) 68 66 74 73, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 67 67 73 74 282 Arron Oberholser (US) 70 70 73 69

EPGA TOUR QATAR MASTERS

Round IV ? 273 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 66 68 71 68 276 Paul Broadhurst (GBR) 72 67 67 70 277 Darren Fichardt (RSA) 67 72 70 68 279 Nick Dougherty (GBR) 69 67 73 70, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 68 70 68 73, Richard Finch (GBR) 68 68 71 72, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 66 69 72 72 280 Graeme Storm (GBR) 68 71 70 71 286 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 72 71 70 73, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 75 67 77 68

For the book

Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to complete all the necessary infrastructure upto 2007-08 for the forthcoming Commonwealth Winter Games to be held at the ski resort of Gulmarg in North Kashmir, deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig said in Srinagar on Monday. Delhi is set to host the 2010 edition of the Commonwealth Games, and Gulmarg will organise the segment of winter games.