Sunday, September 14, 2008

Chess News
At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Tenth Round -
Veselin Topalov - Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0
Levon Aronian - Teimour Radjabov 0-1
Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand ½-½

Final Standing -
1 Veselin Topalov 6½ pts
2 Magnus Carlsen 5 pts
3 Levon Aronian 5 pts
4 Vassily Ivanchuk 5 pts
5 Teimur Radjabov 4½ pts
6 Viswanathan Anand 4 pts

In this tournament only Anand remained winless ... Poor performance here will cost him around 14 ELO pts and in unofficial live rating Anand is dropped to 5th in standing with 2783.2 ELO pts ... Veselin Topalov is leading with 2790.6 ELO pts, 7 pts ahead Anand.
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Motor Sports
At Formula1 2008, Monza

Fisichella delievered what he promised ... He helped Force India to qualify first-time for 2nd qualifying stage ... He is qualified on 12th position ahead of Kimi, who r qualified on 14th position, and Lewis Hamilton, who r qualified for on 15th.
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At GP2 Series 2008, Monza

In qualifying Karun qualified on 10th and Senna on 12th ... But in Feature race he finished on 11th position and Senna on 5th position.

On the last race of the season Karun's race got over in the first lap ... Karun finished season on 10th position with 31 pts.

iSports International finished on 2nd position in team standing behind Barwa Campos Team, who ended on 105 pts ... In driver standing Bruno Senna also finished on 2nd position behind Giorgio Pantano of Racing Engineering, who finished on 76 pts ... In both championships iSports team and driver fall short by 8 pts.

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