Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
While Garry Kasparov stretched his lead to a full point over Topalov in the 9th round of the 22nd Linares super Grandmasters' tournament.
The world's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
The Indian ace remains in second spot in the Linares Super Grandmasters' tournament, behind Garry Kasparov.
With seven rounds left at Linares, the Indian ace will have to tackle his black pieces well and score at least two victories with white.
GM Veselin Topalov defeated Michael Adams of England in the first round of the Linares Super Grandmasters tournament.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
After nine rounds in the Corus chess tournament, the Indian ace is in third place.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the eighth round of the Corus chess tournament.
The Indian ace, who is a full point clear of nearest rival Zahar Efimenko of Ukraine, needs only a draw in the final round to win the Marx Gyorgy memorial chess tournament.
The Indian ace maintained sole lead in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial International chess tournament with an easy draw against Hungarian GM Ferenc Berkes.
The match was abandoned after Serginho was taken to hospital early in the second half of the Brazilian championship match in Sao Paulo.
Soros, dismayed by what he perceives to be the Bush administration's unilateralism abroad and its "authoritarian" politics at home, is on a crusade, the Newsweek magazine says in an article being published in its upcoming issue.
Birgit Fischer's K4 crew came from behind to beat world champions Hungary in a thrilling race.
The IOC, on it's part, would not be surprised if more violations of doping rules were found.
Hungarian Olympic discus champion Robert Fazekas will lose his gold medal and be expelled from the Games after breaking doping rules.
Defending champion Valentina Vezzali won the Olympic fencing individual foil gold medal on Wednesday, hours after breaking down in tears because of stress.
New signing Michael Owen will prove to be a valuable addition to Real Madrid's squad, defender Roberto Carlos claimed on Sunday.
The Ukraine swimmer confirmed her position as the world's best all-round female swimmer when she became the first woman to retain the Olympic 400 metres individual medley title.
BAR said they took the decision to take up the option on Button's contract on July 20 and informed the driver's management team.
World champion Michael Schumacher has recovered from flu and is itching to chalk up a record 12th victory of the season.
The draw left the top seeded Indian at the bottom of the table after the second round in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial International Chess tournament.
The German, who was sidelined after crashing at the U.S. Grand Prix, is now targeting the Belgian Grand Prix for his return.
Fernando Alonso seized pole position from McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The Indian ace drew with GM Peter Leko of Hungary in the first game of the semi-final in the Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament.
Briton Jenson Button will be docked 10 places on the starting grid for having his BAR's engine replaced.
The 23-year-old British driver has tested for McLaren and currently drives for Mercedes in the German DTM touring car championship.
Hungarian Zsolt Baumgartner handed the struggling Formula One team their first point in 41 races.
The Rest of the World team will play Armenia in a chess match to commemorate the 75th birth anniversary of late Armenian world champion Tigran Petrosian.
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