Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Chess News 
At World Chess Championship, Bonn, Germany October 14 to 30, 2008

Viswanathan Anand (IND) vs Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 4½ - 1½

Game 6 -
Viswanathan Anand (IND) - Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 1-0

After having 2 points lead, Anand started playing positively with White, in order to keeping the gap between them ... Anand rarely loses with White, so Kramnik needed to fired up from game 6 to catch him.

Playing with White Anand started with Nimzo-Indian ... Some new novelty moves used by Anand but otherwise nothing special was happening ... But Kramnik once again blundered on 18th move playing c5 ... And then Anand convincingly outplayed Kramnik and well deservedly won for third time in 47 moves.

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Football News
At AFC Cup 2008 - Semi-finals (Second Leg)

Dempo SC l Safa SC, Lebanon 1-4

Goal Scored - Samson Fernandes (DSC) 654' and Mohammed Kassaf (Saf) 12' & 20', Hussein Tahan 85' & 90'

Dempo lost in one-sided match to Lebanon side Safa 4-1 in the second semi-final leg at Hyderabad ... Dempo lost 1-5 on aggregate ... With that their dreams of becoming the first Indian club making it to the AFC Cup finals were dashed.

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