Golf News
At the Singha Thailand Open - Final Standing


1 Jyoti RANDHAWA 68 68 62 65 -17 $79,250.00
T4 S.S.P. CHOWRASIA 66 62 70 69 -13 $22,575.00
T6 Daniel CHOPRA 67 69 69 63 -12 $15,750.00
T10 Himmat RAI 65 72 68 65 -10 $ 7,744.44
T10 Gaganjeet BHULLAR 64 66 71 69 -10 $ 7,744.44
T19 Anirban LAHIRI 68 67 72 64 - 9 $ 5,866.67
T32 Shiv KAPUR 69 68 68 69 - 6 $ 3,850.00
64 Amandeep JOHL 67 69 72 75 + 3 $ 1,400.00
T66 Digvijay SINGH 63 73 76 76 + 8 $ 1,275.00

Jyoti Randhawa played excellent control round to become the first Indian to lift the Singha Thailand Open King's Trophy. But first round leader Digvijay Singh ended on last place.

Jyoti Randhawa - "The way the course was set up and the way it was playing, I thought I could shoot some low numbers and I did that the last two days and I'm glad I did it."
"That's the mantra now, I need to relax a bit and chill out. You don't practice and work hard during tournaments. You do it before that. I came here, I swam, I went scuba diving and I enjoyed myself. And here I am, I've won a golf tournament. I learned a lot and I think I need to do this more often."
"The two boys (Davies and Chowrasia) got me going. They were on my heels the whole day. S.S.P. made an eagle on the first hole and I needed to wake up and do something and luckily I did. It was good competition."
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Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Round 14 - Saturday, 7 March 2009

Teimour Radjabov ½-½ Wang Yue
Leinier Domínguez ½-½ Ivanchuk Vassily
Levon Aronian ½-½ Grischuk Alexander
Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Carlsen Magnus

All four games of the last round were drawn, so Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Grischuk ended on top with 8.0 points but Grischuk won title on better tie-break ... Third was Magnus Carlsen and Anand ended on fourth position with 4 points.