BILLIARDS

IBSF World Championship

Bangalore, Day III (Wednesday) — Pankaj Advani (Ind) Peter Gilchrist (Sin) 151-54,150-141, 36-151, 150-5, 150-61l Rupesh Shah (Ind) bt Dhruv Sitwala (Ind) 4-1 (113-150, 152-32, 150-142, 150-44, 151-74) Geet Sethi (Ind) bt Alok Kumar (Ind) 4-2 (151-21, 150-7, 151-2, 68-150, 5-150, 121-5) (match conceded) Devendra Joshi (Ind) bt Praprut Chaithanasakun (Tha) 4-2 (150-89, 0-150, 138-151, 150-8, 150-70, 150-0)

CHESS

Bilbao Grand Slam Final tournament

Spain, Round I (Wednesday) — Levon Aronian (Arm, 0) lost to Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 3.0) Vishwanathan Anand (Ind, 1.0) drew Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 1.0) Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 1.0) drew Veselin Topalov (Bul, 1.0)