The defending champion played out a 23-move draw with GM Peter Leko of Hungary in the Corus Grandmasters Chess Tournament.
Barcelona crushed Slovakia's Puchov 8-0 at the Nou Camp to go through 9-1 on aggregate.\n\n
The major countries were kept apart in the Euro 2004 playoff draw, opening the way for Spain, Holland, Russia, Turkey and Croatia to reach next year's finals.
The major countries were kept apart in the Euro 2004 playoff draw on Monday.
France, Argentina and Italy grabbed the spotlight with impressive friendly victories on the first major international soccer night of the season on Wednesday.
Germany beat the Faroe Islands 2-0 with two desperately late goals while Spain drew with N. Ireland in the Euro 2004 qualifiers.
They lost to Georgia in an important Euro 2004 football qualifier.
The victory enabled the Indian ace maintain the sole lead in the Corus chess championship.
The former world champion inflicted a 60-move defeat on the Bulgarian in the second round of the 65th Corus chess tournament.
India had a disappointing finish at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Italy.
But their medal hopes remain dim after the 13th and penultimate round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
P Harikrishna and S S Ganguly lost their games as India went down to defending champions Russia in the Chess Olympiad.
Abhijit Kunte and Surya Shekhar Ganguly scored victories in a 3-1 victory over The Philippines in the third round of the Chess Olympiad.
Viswanathan Anand was one step away from his seventh Chess Classic title after crashing \n\nthrough the defences of Spain's Alexei Shirov in the sixth game.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly beat Gabriel Sargissen to help the Indian men register a 2.5-1.5 victory over Armenia in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
A look at the Czech Republic squad ahead of their Euro 2004 semi-final against Greece.
In Moscow, Russia rallied to beat England 2-1 and keep their hopes alive for a berth in the finals.
The Indian men succumbed to their first defeat going down 1.5-2.5 to slip to joint sixth spot after the seventh round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Parts of Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East are vying to become new offshoring hubs - and nudging aside established players
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
The recent bailout of Romania by the International Monetary Fund puts the spotlight back on the East European block of countries and what it means for the Western European banking sector. If evidence is anything to go by, things are turning for the worse. In fact, if a block of countries could be termed 'sub-prime', Eastern Europe seems to qualify as the countries seem to have been battered and bruised big time by the ongoing global financial turmoil.
The Indian ace underlined his superiority in the game once more as he outplayed Veselin Topalov 3-1 in the final.
India stands 40th in 'network readiness' in the world, having slipped from the 39th spot it held last year. However, it is above China (50th) and Pakistan (67th) and Sri Lanka (83rd).
Dutch squad penpix ahead of the European Championship semi-final against hosts Portugal.
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
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