Saturday, March 01, 2008

Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 9 - Friday, February 29th
Levon Aronian ½-½ Anand
Veselin Topalov ½-½ Teimour Radjabov
Peter Leko 0-1 Vassily Ivanchuk
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Alexei Shirov

Quick draw after 27 moves for Anand ... But Carlsen scored thrilling victory over Shirov to reduce gap between him and Anand for mere ½ pt.

So after 9 rounds Anand is leading with 6 pts ... Today Anand having match with white-pieces against 'hot' Magnus Carlsen.

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Tennis News -
At US$436K Las Vegas Open, NV, USA

[Q1] AMRITRAJ Prakash (IND,265) vs ANDERSON Kevin (RSA,179)

Kash is playing at Las Vegas Open qualifying ... Having tricky match against South African Anderson.
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At $10K Sant Boi Futures, Spain

[QF] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,594) l (LL) DOBRA Simona (CZE,668) 16 16

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