Chole shocks Gurpreet PalSANGLI: Maharashtra's lowly-rated Vikrant Chole shocked seasoned Gurpreet Pal Singh of Northern Railways in the second round of the 32nd SK Vaidya Memorial Fide Rated Chess Tournament here today.Two former National `A' champions, IM P Konguvel, the top seed here, and second seeded IM DV Prasad of Indian Oil, however, won their games in rook endings against Ramakrishna Kashalkar (Maha) and Vikas Sharma (Punjab).Among the other winners were third seeded Englishman Andrew Webster, IM-elect Vishal Sareen and IWM S Vijayalakshmi.Big win for Bihar, AssamSHILLONG: Bihar swamped Rajasthan 15-0 to chart a their quarter-final course while Assam snatched its second consecutive victory, outclassing Haryana 7-0 on the fourth day of the Seventh Women's Senior National Football Championship at the Polo Ground here on Tuesday.With this win Assam are now tied with Madhya Pradesh with six points each in the Group C.Bihar's Kumari Sanati claimed theindividual honours netting five goals while Pinki Anjana and Priyanka Sinha scored two goals each.World Cup websites launchedMUMBAI: Absentism from work during the May 14-June 20 World Cup cricket may be a lot lesser if Net-savvy employees decide to cash in on keeping track of the live action on the Internet.One such site is grasimcricworldcup99.com. - the latest to cash in on the cricketing overkill is the Rs 3,700 crore Grasim Industries, which will have its own World Cup site.The site will replay live through webcasting using a breakthrough technology to get better real audio video quality for people logging into the site.The site has been developed by Darshan Sedani, a 25-year-old whizkid who returned home from the United States last year with a Masters in System Administration from California State University, Fullortun in Mt Sierra.The site developed by Sedani's company, Brainbow Computech Pvt Ltd, has live webcasting and and Internet technologies using RealAudio-Video interfaces work. Brainbow put up 6,300 pages in 22 days to come up with a site that promises to be slightly different from the flood of World Cup sites.The site, among other things, offers fans throughout the globe the chance to express their appreciation through e-greetings facilities which will allow them to send bouquets and cakes to Indian players.VSNL: International telecom carrier, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) today launched a website on World Cup cricket - 99worldcup.com - to provide cricket fans on-line instant reports on the tournament.VSNL has also mirrored the site cricket.org on its servers in the country and can be accessed through VSNL's portal site vsnl.com or internet.vsnl.net.in.StumpVision ratingsMUMBAI: StumpVision, a brainchild of Indian leggie Anil Kumble and his brother Dinesh, after launching their website and CD-ROM based products have devised a comprehensive system for ranking the cricketers based on their performance inlimited overs cricket.In this rating system, points are allotted on the basis of the contribution of player in a team's win.According to the ratings, Shane Warne (Australia) with 174.63 points is just ahead of Jacques Kallis (South Africa, 173.99) while Lance Klusener (South Africa) is placed third at 167.35 points.Among the Indians, Saurav Ganguly (11th, 121.97 pts), Rahul Dravid (17th, 105.21) and Ajay Jadeja (20th, 98.47 pts) figure among the top 20. The ratings are available at the goworldcup99.com, a StumpVision website.- ENS & Agencies
