CHESS
WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ELISTA( KALMYKIA), ROUND II: Peng Zhaoqin (Ned) lost to Koneru Humpy 0.5-1.5 Alisa Galliamova (Rus) lost to Maia Lomineishvili (Geo) 0-2 Marie Sebag (Fra) lost to Maia Chiburdanidze (Geo) 0-2 Svetlana Matveeva (Rus) beat Natasa Bojkovic (Scg) 1.5-0.5 Pia Cramling (Swe) beat Lilit Mkrtchian (Arm) 1.5-0.5 Elina Danielian (Arm) lost to Xu Yuhua (Chn) 0.5-1.5 Viktorija Cmilyte (Ltu) beat Alexendra Kosteniuk (Rus) 1.5-0.5 Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (Rus) beat Olga Alexandrova (Ukr) 1.5-0.5 Ketino Kachiani-G. (Ger) beat Irina Krush (US) 1.5-0.5 Jana Jackova (Cze) beat Corina-Isabela Peptan (Rom) 1.5-0.5 Iweta Radziewicz (Pol) lost to Nana Dzagnidze (Geo) 0.5-1.5 Tatina Kosintseva (Rus) beat Hoang Thanh Trang (Vie) 1.5-0.5
NATIONAL SUB-JUNIOR meet
KOZHIKODE, Final Round (BOYS): K. Vijay Keerthi (Kar) 7.5 lost to Parimarjan Negi (Del) 8 Soumitra B. Mujumdar (Mah) 7 drew D. Saisrinivas (CCA) 7 Aswin Jayaram (TN) 6 lost Rahul Sangma (GNCA) 7 Mary Ann Gomes (GNCA) 7 bt R. A. Pradeep Kumar (TN) 6 Y. Sandeep (AP) 6 lost to R. Premnath (CHRM) 7 K. Udeshi Aditya (Mah) 7 bt Gupte Meghan (Mah) 5.5 G. . Gopal (Ker) 6.5 bt S Nitin (GLDN) 5.5 T. Abhay (TN) 6 drew K Narayanan (TN) 6 A. Kamparia (MP) 6 drew Debaditta Sinha Biswas (WB) 6 S. P. Sethurama (TN) 5.5 lost to B. Adhiban (MCA) 6.5 Ved Prakash Sinha (Bih) 6.5 bt A. Tejdeep (AP) 5.5 Avi Bagdi (MP) 6.5 bt K. Priyadarsha (MCA) 5.5 Soumya Thakurta (WB) 5.5 lost to Suman Basu (GNCA) 6.5 Sandipan Chatterjee (GNCA) 5.5 lost to V. Somesh (AP) 6.5 K. S. Srikar (CCA) 5.5 drew G. S. Sreejith (Ker) 5.5.
GIRLS: P. Lakshmi Sahiti (AP) 6.5 lost to Saheli Nath (WB) 8.5 P. Sivasankari (TN) 6.5 drew Soumya Swaminathan (VCA) 7 M. Rajadarshini (ECA) 6.5 drew Bhakti P. Kulkarni (Goa) 6.5 Kiran Monisha Mohanty (Ori) 6.5 drew Dhyani B Dave (Guj) 6.5 Ramyakrishna (AP) 7 bt Ketaki S. Kulkarni (Mah) 6 J. Rajasurya (TN) 6.5 drew R. K. Shruke (MCA) 6 Anjanaa . Sawjanya (TN) 5.5 lost to R. Preethi (KCA) 6.5 L. Praneetha (AP) 6.5 bt H. P. Pallavi Maiya (Kar) 5.5 S. V. Sathya Priya (GLDN) 5 lost to . Raghavi (TN) 6 S. Harini (Capa) 6 bt Saba A. Mhate (Mah) 5 P. K. Jayashree (TN) 6 bt V. K. Sindhu (TN) 5 M. S. Nandin (BCA) 5.5 drew Gomathy (Capa) 5.5 K. Sruthi (Nlnd) 5 lost to P. Uthra (KCA) 6 Meenu Rajendran (Ker) 6 bt R. Aparna (Ker) 4.5 Mitali M. Patil (Mah) 6 bt . Jananipriya (Bca) 4.5.
VOLLEYBALL
MEN’S Olympic qualifiers
TOKYO, Day IV: France bt China 3-0 (25-21, 38-36, 25-21) Australia bt Canada 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 26-24) South Korea bt Algeria 3-0 (25-21, 25-15, 25-19) Iran bt Japan 3-2 (25-22, 27-29, 18-25, 25-21, 15-12)
FOOTBALL
FRIENDLY
MADRID: Catalan XI 2 (Gerard 75, Sergio Garcia 90) Brazil 5 (Ronaldo 16, 37, Ricardo Oliveira 52, Julio Baptista 65, 90).
For the book
The UN’s nuclear watchdog agency has announced that it will help Greece maintain security at the Olympics in August. The Greek authorities are also receiving help from France and the US, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
