CHESS

NATIONAL A MEET

Round VI: Praveen Thipsay (4.5) drew Surya Sekhar Ganguly 4.5 Deepan Chakravarthy (4) drew Dibyendu Barua (4) Arun Prasad (4) drew G.N. Gopal (4) Abhijit Kunte (4) drew Abhijeet Gupta (4) D.P. Singh (4) bt Deep Sengupta (3) M.R. Ventakesh (4) bt Himanshu Sharma (3).

FOOTBALL

Federation Cup

Calcutta: East Bengal 0 Dempo SC 1 (Ranti Martins, 86)

Ligue 1

Olympique Marseille 2 (Djibril Cisse 9, Mickael Pagis 64) St Etienne 1 (Marek Heinz 45).

For the book

Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell and US sprinter Sanya Richards were named Track & Field News magazine’s Athletes of the Year on Friday.