CHESS

OLYMPIAD

Men, Round VI : Netherlands (17.5) bt Russia (17) 2.5-1.5 lArmenia (18) bt Uzbekistan (16) 2.5-1.5lSweden (16.5) bt Bulgaria (15.5) 2.5-1.5lUkraine (16.5) bt Iran (15.5) 2.5-1.5lBelarus (17) bt Spain (15) 3-1lChina (15) lost to US (16.5) 1.5-2.5lGreece (15) lost to Brazil (16) 1.5-2.5lGermany (14.5) lost to India (16.5) 1-3lScotland (14) lost to Georgia (16) 1-3lDenmark (15.5) bt Croatia (14.5) 2.5-1.5lSlovakia (14) lost to Czech Republic (16) 1-3lRomania (14) lost to Israel (16) 1-3lIceland (14.5) lost to Indonesia (15.5) 1.5-2.5lSwitzerland (14.5) drew with Serbia & Montenegro (15) 2-2lAzerbaijan (13) lost to Cuba (16) 0.5-3.5lHungary (15.5) bt Latvia (13.5) 3-1lPoland (16) bt Ireland (13) 3.5-0.5lEngland (14.5) drew with Peru (14.5) 2-2lArgentina (15) bt Turkmenistan (13.5) 2.5-1.5lParaguay (14) drew with Turkey (14) 2-2

Women, Round VI: Russia (14.5) bt Hungary (12.5) 2-1lSpain (12) lost to Ukraine (14) 1-2lMongolia (12) lost to US (12) 1-2lRomania (13) bt Armenia (12) 2-1lIndia (13) bt Slovenia (12) 2-1lKazakhstan (11.5) lost to Bulgaria (13) 1-2lSlovakia (13.5) bt Lithuania (10) 3-0lChina (12.5) bt Poland (10.5) 2.5-0.5lGeorgia (12) bt France (11) 2-1lEl Salvador (10) lost to Estonia (12.5) 0.5-2.5lGermany (10.5) lost to Latvia (11.5) 1-2lSerbia & Montenegro (11) drew with Vietnam (11) 1.5-0.5lItaly A (11) drew with Cuba (10.5) 1.5-1.5lMoldova (10) lost to Israel (11) 1-2lGreece (10.5) drew with Netherlands (10.5) 1.5-1.5lCroatia (11) bt Turkmenistan (10) 2-1lBelarus (11) bt Philippines (9) 2.5-0.5l Venezuela (10.5) bt England (9.5) 2-1lTurkey (10.5) bt Uzbekistan (9.5) 2-1 Ecuador (10.5) bt Indonesia (9.5) 2-1

CRICKET

County Championship

Division I, Day IV, Southampton: Hampshire 271 & 176/6 (J. Crawley 83; A.Hall 3/27). Kent 223 & 94/4. Match drawnOld Trafford: Nottinghampshire 253 & 102/4. Lancahsire 308 (B. Hodge 115; Mark Ealham 5/75, Chris Harris 4/76). Match drawn.Lord’s: Middlesex 520/9 decl. Warwickshire 401/9 (I.Trott 139). Match drawn.

FOOTBALL

International Friendlies

France 1 (Florent Malouda 45+) Mexico 0lNetherlands 1 (Ruud van Nistelrooy 23) Cameroon 0lSerbia & Montenegro 1 (Dejan Stankovic 18) Uruguay 1 (Diego Godin 81)lDenmark 1 (Jon Dahl Tomasson 51) Paraguay 1 (Jose Cardozo 20)lPortugal 4 (Pauleta 1,38,84, Petit 60) Cape Verde Islands 1 (Fernando Meira 19og)lTrinidad & Tobago 1 (Stern John 33) Wales 2 (Rob Earnshaw 38,87)lSwitzerland 1 (Tranquillo Barnetta 32) Ivory Coast 1 (Emerse Fae 47) lGermany 7 (Miroslav Klose 5,59, Torsten Frings 19pen, Lukas Podolski 35,65pen, Oliver Neuville 90,90+) Luxembourg 0lSpain 0 Russia 0

GOLF

EPGA Wentworth Championship

Round III: 202 David Howell (GBR) 68 65 69l205 Miguel Angel Jimenez (ESP) 71 69 65l208 Paul Casey (GBR) 67 72 69, Simon Khan (GBR) 70 68 70l210 Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 69 70 71, Nick Dougherty (GBR) 67 69 74, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 72 70 68, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 75 69 66l211 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 70 70 71, Soren Hansen (Den) 70 72 69, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 69 68 74l219 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 71 72 76

St Jude Classic

Round III: 203 Tim Herron (US) 70 65 68, Tom Pernice Jr (US) 67 68 68l204 Kris Cox (US) 74 67 63l205 Jay Delsing (US) 70 69 66, John Cook (US) 69 69 67l206 Jeff Maggert (US) 72 66 68, Ryan Palmer (US) 69 68 69l207 Briny Baird (US) 71 68 68, Nick Price (Zim) 68 70 69, Camilo Villegas (Col) 70 66 71l208 Justin Leonard (US) 72 69 67, John Senden (Aus) 73 65 70, David Toms (US) 69 67 72, Brian Gay (US) 69 67 72l209 Zach Johnson (US) 68 71 70, Michael Allen (US) 70 69 70, Dan Forsman (US) 69 68 72

PHILIPPINE OPEN

Round VI: 280 Scott Strange 68 70 72 70 285 Park Jun-Won 75 74 69 67l286 Lu Wei-Lan 69 74 72 71, Yeh Chang-Ting 69 69 73 75, Chris Rodgers 70 69 75 72l288 Juvic Pagunsan 72 70 74 72, Unho Park 72 71 73 72l289 Gary Simpson 71 72 74 72, Cookie Lao 70 74 70 75, Jason Dawes 70 75 74 70, Hsieh Chin-Sheng 71 73 71 74l290 SSP. Chowrasia 74 72 71 73 294 Uttam Singh Mundy 75 74 69 76l295 Gurbaaz Mann 73 73 72 77l299 Digvijay Singh 75 70 78 76

TENNIS

World Team Championships

Final: Croatia bt Germany 2-1. Michael Kohlmann/Alexander Waske (Ger) bt Ivo Karlovic/Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) 7-6(7-3), 6-3lIvan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) 6-4, 6-4lIvo Karlovic (Cro) bt Alexander Waske (Ger) 7-6(7-5), 6-4

ATP Poertschach International

Final: Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt Andrei Pavel (Rom) 6-0, 6-3

WTA Strasbourg International

Final: Nicole Vaidisova (Cze) bt Shuai Peng (Chn) 7-6(9-7), 6-3

WTA Istanbul Cup

Singles, Final: Shahar Peer (Isr) bt Anastasia Myskina (Rus) 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(7-3)Doubles, Final: Alona Bondarenko (Ukr)/ Anastasia Yakimova (Belr) bt Sania Mirza (Ind) Alicia Molik (Aus) 6-2, 6-4

For the book

European champions Barcelona will play Bayern Munich in the annual Hans Gamper trophy in late August, the club said on Sunday.The German champions follow Juventus and AC Milan who have been Barca’s opponents in the last two editions of the trophy, which is the traditional curtain-raiser to the Catalan club’s season.Barca said the date of the game had not yet been confirmed, but it is likely to take place on August 22.