CHESS

NATIONAL A MEET

Valsad, Round II — Deepan Chakravathy drew K. Rathnakarn Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary drew Praveen Thipsay Abhijit Gupta drew P. Konguvel Valay Parikh lost to Dibyendu Barua MR Venkatesh drew Roktim Bandyopadhya Swati Ghate drew Sunderarajan Kidambi Sudhir Kumar Sinha lost to S. Arun Prasad Dronavalli Harrika drew Surya Sekhar Ganguly Abhijit Kunte drew Suvrajit Saha RB Ramesh lost to Himanshu Sharma G. Rohit lost to Neelopal Das Deep Sengupta bt Abhishek Das Syed Anwar Shazyli lost to A. Poobesh Ravi Lanka drew N. Babu GB Prakash drew MS Thejkumar Eesha Karvade drew G. Gopal Ravi Thandala drew D P Singh Tejas Bakre lost to Prathamesh Sunil Mokal Koshy Varugeese drew V. Sarvanan Murli Krishnan lost to RR Laxman Aswin Jayaram drew V. Kamble PD Girinath lost to Swapnil Dhopade.

FOOTBALL

FEDERATION CUP

Calcutta, Pre-quarter finals, Tuesday — Sporting Clube de Goa 4 (Ernst Jeremiah 1, Harmanjot Khabra 31, 38, Nicolas Borges 55) Armi XI 0 Salgaocar 1 (Francis Fernandez 58) JCT 0 Wednesday — Dempo 1 (Antony Pereira 26) HASC 0 East Bengal 2 (Nabi 22, Alvito 38) SBT 0.

ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP

Quarter finals — Charlton Athletic 0 Wycombe Wanderers 1 (Jermaine Easter 35).

FRENCH LEAGUE CUP

Quarter finals — Girondins Bordeaux 1 (Fernando 99pen) St Etienne 0.

PRIMERA LIGA

Athletic Bilbao 0 Real Zaragoza 0 Valencia 3 (Vicente 39, David Villa 57, Fernando Morientes 82) Real Mallorca 1 (Jonas Gutierrez 87pen).