CHESS

WORLD CUP

Khanty-Mansiysky, Round I, Game I ? Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) bt Aleksander Sibriaev (Rus) Etienne Bacrot (Fra) bt Stanley Chumfwa (Zam) Levon Aronian (Arm) bt Frhat Ali (Egy) Alexander Grischuk (Rus) bt Gaston Needleman (Arg) Boris Gelfand (Isr) bt Watu Kobese (RSA) Kiril Kuderinov (Kaz) drew Alexei Shirov (Esp) Teimour Radjabov (Aze) bt Diego Flores (Arg) Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) drew Adly Ahmed (Egy) Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) bt Slim Belkhodja (Tun) Van Sokolov (Ned) bt Antoaneta Stefanova (Bul) Alexey Dreev (Rus) bt Pascal Charbonneau (Can) Gata Kamsky (Usa) bt Zhao Yun (Chn) Viktor Bologan (Mda) bt Carlos Matamoros (Ecu) Joel Lautier (Fra) drew Aleksei Pridorozhni (Rus) Lazaro Bruzon (Cub) bt Nikolai Kabanov (Rus) Evgeny Bareev bt Vasquez Rodrigo (Chi) Nurlan Ibraev (Kaz) bt Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) Li Shilong (Chn) bt Francisco Vallejo Pons (Esp) Walter Arencibia (Cub) drew Ilia Smirin (Isr) P. Harikrishna (Ind) drew Yu Shaoteng (Chn) Wang Hao (Chn) drew Vladimir Malakhov (Rus) Konstantin Sakaev (Rus) bt Lima Darcy Gustavo (Bra) Cao Sang (Hun) bt Andrei Volokitin (Ukr) Alexander Moiseenko (Ukr) bt Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukr) Alexei Iljushin (Rus) drew Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind) Pavel Eljanov (Ukr) bt Sergey Kudrin (US) Surya Shekhar Ganguly (Ind) bt Hikaru Nakamura (US) Vadim Zvjaginsev (Rus) drew Yuri Shulman (US) Csaba Balogh (Hun) drew Sergey Karjakin (Ukr) Artyom Timofeev (Rus) drew Evgenij Agrest (Swe) Magnus Carlsen (Nor) bt Zurab Azmaiparashvili (Geo)

FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

Middlesbrough 2 (Mark Viduka 12, Yakubu Aiyegbeni 66pen) West Bromwich Albion 2 (Nathan Ellington 18, Nwankwo Kanu 57) Fulham 2 (Brian McBride 4,18) Bolton Wanderers 1 (Sylvain Legwinski 90og) Everton 1 (Joseph Yobo 46) Newcastle United 0

LIGUE 1

Olympique Marseille 2 (Wilson Oruma 63, Sabri Lamouchi 75) Monaco 1 (Camel Meriem 20) Paris St Germain 3 (Pauleta 6,89, Mario Yepes 90+2) Racing Lens 4 (Olivier Thomert 2, Aruna Dindane 32,70, Jussie 41) Nantes 4 (Pascal Delhommeau 48, Habib Bamogo 55, Milos Dimitrijevic 59, Frederic Da Rocha 90+3) Racing Strasbourg 3 (Mickael Pagis 38pen,49, Amara Diane 45+1)

SERIE A

Cagliari 2 (David Suazo 21,52) Sampdoria 0 Empoli 2 (Ricardo Bonetto 55, Francesco Tavano 59pen) Lazio 3 (Ousmane Dabo 28, Igli Tare 77, Fabio Liverani 80) Juventus 3 (Adrian Mutu 37, David Trezeguet 43, Alessandro Del Piero 82) Treviso 1 (Francesco Parravicini 25) Siena 0 Reggina 0 Ascoli 1 (Marco Ferrante 53) Palermo 1 (Massimo Bonanni 37) Messina 1 (Arturo Di Napoli 71) Inter Milan 2 (Alvaro Recoba 7, Esteban Cambiasso 59) Parma 1 (Bernardo Corradi 89) Udinese 2 (Paulo Barreto 45+2, 48)

PRIMERA LIGA

Real Sociedad 2 (Xavier Prieto 44pen, Oscar de Paula 59) Real Madrid 2 (Raul Bravo 87, Zinedine Zidane 88) Real Betis 1 (Marcos Assuncao 7) Cadiz 1 (Manolo Perez 74pen) Getafe 3 (Veljko Paunovic 27,85, Gerardo 39 og) Malaga 2 (Nacho 24, Juan Rodriguez 54) Real Zaragoza 0 Sevilla 2 (Javier Saviola 58, Daniel Alves 90+1) Deportivo Coruna 0 Villarreal 2 (Juan Riquelme 56, Juan Pablo Sorin 78) Atletico Madrid 1 (Peter Luccin 8) Espanyol 1 (Jarque 11) Osasuna 3 (Savo Milosevic 60, Francisco Punal 72pen, Moha 84) Alaves 2 (Nene 56, John Aloisi 90)

For the book

Premier League club Fulham are to re-name one of the stands at their Craven Cottage ground in honour of former favourite Johnny Haynes, who died last month after a car crash.