CHESS

WIJK AAN ZEE MEET

Round I, Group A ? Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) drew Etienne Bacrot Sergey Karjakin (Ukr) lost to Viswanathan Anand (Ind) Veselin Topalov (Bul) bt Gata Kamsky (US) Boris Gelfand (Isr) drew Peter Leko (Hun) Loek Van Wely (Ned) drew Ivan Sokolov (Ned) Levon Aronian (Arm) lost to Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) drew Michael Adams (GBR) Group B ? Alexander Beliavsky (Slo) drew Koneru Humpy (Ind) Arkadij Naiditsch (Ger) bt Daniel Stellwagen (Ned) Giovanni Vescovi (Bra) bt Jobava Baadur (Geo) David Navara (Cze) bt Jan Smeets (Ned) Magnus Carlsen (Nor) bt Erwin L’Ami (Ned) Zoltan Almasi (Hun) bt Kateryna Lahno (Ukr) Alexander Motylev (Rus) bt Ivan Cheparinov (Bul)

PARSVNATH MEET

New Delhi, Round I ? Sannidhya Narayan (Ind) lost to Alexei Fedorov (Blr) 0-1 Surya Sekhar Ganguly (Ind) bt Prasanna Rao (Ind) 1-0 Abhimany Poddar lost to Pavel Kotsur (Kaz) 0-1 Ziaur Rahman (Ban) bt Sohan Padke (Ind) w/ 1-0 Amruta Mokal (Ind) lost to Abhijit Kunte (Ind) 0-1 Konstantin Chernysov (Rus) bt W. A. Khan (Ind) 1-0 Atul Dahale (Ind) lost to Nurlan Ibraev (Kaz) 0-1 Sandipan Chanda (Ind) bt Venu Madhav N. (Ind) 1-0 Arpit Saxena (Ind) lost to Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb) Sundarajan Kidambi (Ind) bt Hemant Sharma (Ind) 1-0 Natarajan M. (Ind) lost to R. B. Ramesh (Ind) 0-1 Tejas Bakre (Ind) bt Ketaki Kulkarni (Ind) 1-0 Ishmeet Singh (Ind) lost to Vijayalakshmi S. (Ind) 0-1 Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban) bt Anil Bahulayan (Ind) 1-0 Anil Kumar K. V. (Ind) lost to Enamul Hossain (Ban) 0-1 Dibyendu Barua (Ind) bt Debashish Dutta (Ind) 1-0 Gagan Chitkara (Ind) lost to Niaz Murshed (Ban) 0-1 Sharma Surinder Khanna (Ind) lost to Sriram Jha (Ind) 0-1 Himanshu Sharma (Ind) bt Bitan Banerjee (Ind) 1-0

FOOTBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE

East Bengal 1 (Bhaichung Bhutia 33) Salgaokar SC 1 (Flavio 60) Sporting Clube de Goa 1 JCT 1

PREMIER LEAGUE

Blackburn Rovers 0 Bolton Wanderers 0 Fulham 1 (Steed Malbranque 75) Newcastle United 0 Liverpool 1 (Harry Kewell 59) Tottenham Hotspur 0 Portsmouth 0 Everton 1 (Leon Osman 31) Charlton Athletic 2 (Bryan Hughes 29, Darren Bent 90) Birmingham City 0 Arsenal 7 (Thierry Henry 20, 30, 68, Philippe Senderos 22, Robert Pires 45+2, Gilberto 59, Alexandr Hleb 84) Middlesbrough 0 Aston Villa 1 (Lee Hendrie 27) West Ham United 2 (Bobby Zamora 51, Marlon Harewood 60 pen) Manchester City 3 (Trevor Sinclair 32, Darius Vassell 39, Robbie Fowler 90+4) Manchester United 1 (Ruud van Nistelrooy 76)

LIGUE 1

Le Mans 1 (Antonio Carlos 90+2 og) Ajaccio 0 Nantes 0 Nice 0 Racing Strasbourg 2 (Ulrich Le Pen 11 pen, Pascal Johansen 36) Metz 1 (Herve Tum 87) Auxerre 1 (Peguy Luyindula 45) Racing Lens 0 Monaco 0 Girondins Bordeaux 1 (Denilson 70) Lille 3 (Matt Moussilou 1, Romain Pitau 45+1 og, Daniel Gygax 55) Sochaux 0 AS Nancy 0 Olympique Lyon 2 (Claudio Cacapa 49, Fred 84)

SERIE A

Messina 0 Palermo 0 Lecce 0 Sampdoria 3 (Aimo Diana 22, Gennaro Del Vecchio 45 og, Fabio Bazzani 47)

PRIMERA LIGA

Valencia 2 (Mario Regueiro 45+2, David Villa 52) Osasuna 0 Real Betis 1 (Capi 30) Atletico Madrid 0

GOLF

ASIAN QUALIFYING SCHOOL

Round IV ? 274 Chris Rodgers (GBR) 72 68 64 70, Ross Bain (Sco) 67 69 70 68. Rodgers won playoff in extra hole 275 Lee Sung-Man (Kor) 68 64 70 73 277 Iain Steel (Mas) 71 69 68 69, Ahmad Dan Bateman (Can) 71 68 70 68 278 Park Jun-Won (Kor) 68 72 68 70 279 Anthony Brown (Aus) 72 65 65 77, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 62 69 71 77

US PGA TOUR HAWAII MEET

Round III ? 196 Chad Campbell (US) 67 67 62, David Toms (US) 66 69 61 203 Shane Bertsch (US) 70 70 63, Bubba Watson (US) 67 70 66 204 Charles Warren (US) 66 74 64, Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 65 72 67, Jim Furyk (US) 67 67 70 205 Nathan Green (Aus) 70 70 65, Vijai Singh (Fij) 71 69 65, Robert Gamez (US) 70 69 66, Peter Lonard (Aus) 67 70 68, Steve Jones (US) 69 68 68, K. J. Choi (Kor) 66 71 68, Jerry Smith (US) 69 67 69, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 70 66 69, John Holmes (US) 70 66 69 206 Tommy Armour III (US) 68 74 64, Brent Geiberger (US) 68 73 65, Stewart Cink (US) 71 69 66, Dudley Hart (US) 69 68 69, Jerry Kelly (US) 68 69 69

HOCKEY

PREMIER LEAGUE

Chandigarh, Tier I ? Bangalore Lions 2 (Rehan Butt 12, Sandeep Michael 15) Sher-e Jalandhar 0

For the book

Toyota plan to introduce a revised version of their 2006 Formula One car by the Monaco Grand Prix in May, says technical director Mike Gascoyne.Toyota were the first of the 10 teams to get their new V8-powered car on the test track in November and Gascoyne said that the TF106 version would be replaced by a TF106B after the first six races.