Parag handled the white wide of the Queen's Gambit against Akhtar. Both players castled on the King-side. Akhtar offered his g pawn to develop an attack but Parag refused the offer and created a passer on b file with one extra pawn. Akhtar captured a pawn on e5 square which turned out to be a blunder.

Parag immediately pinned Akhtar's King on h8 by pushing his bishop to d4. Akhtar had to give up his queen for a bishop and thereafter he resigned.

Malti faced Pramod Kumar's Centre Counter, castled on the opposite side and gained an initiative.

By the end she had won a whole rook and when she started an attack on the black King with her queen and rook, Pramod sensed the danger and resigned on the 41stmove.

Bad Boys beaten

Brihan Mumbai Mahagnagar Palikha Kridha Bhavan (BMMPKB) beat Bad Boys Club 2-0 (half-time 0-0) in an MDFA league Div I-A football match at the St Xavier's Gound, Parel, today.

Bad Boys Club wasted a penalty taken by Zenon D'Souza, BMMPKB's goalkeeper Sameer Jadhav bringing off a good save.

Suresh Arya put BMMPKB ahead in the 37th minute before Suresh Arya shot home powerfully to extend the lead 20 minutes later. Wonder Boys (Sahar) beat Vidya Vikas 2-1 in Div II-B. Anand Kadam and Hemant Kadam scored for the winners with Alwyn Mathias pulling one back for Vidya Vikas.

Jyoti Dadar Boys held Khalsa Gymkhana 1-1 in Div III-B. Ferdinand Fernandes scored for Khalsa while Praful Waghela levelled scores.

Anupam rallies

Fourth seed Anupam Singh fought back to defeat sub-junior champion Sumedh Deorukhkar in the quarter-finals of the Thane District badminton tournament today.

Anupam won 15-11, 14-17, 15-9 at the Navi Mumbai Sports Association Indoor Stadium to jointop seed Bhushan Paithankar, second seed Himanshu Thakkar and Suraj Thakur in the semi-finals.

RESULTS

Men's doubles: Nimish Goel/Bhushan Paithankar bt K Sandeep/J Patel 15-7, 17-14; Rajeev Ganpule/Arindam Roy Choudhary bt Mehul Vora/Prashant Padhye 15-7, 17-14; Luckish Somne/Vikrant Pawar bt S Vad/S Bhagwat 15-10, 15-2.

Junior boys' singles: Bhushan Paithankar bt Ashish Kanekar 15-3, 15-13; Suraj Thakur bt Merric Gonsalves 15-12, 15-1; Himanshu Thakkar bt Ashish Bhide 15-2, 15-10; Anupam Singh bt Sumedh Deorukhkar 15-11, 14-17, 15-9.

Sub-junior boys' singles (second round): Sumedh Deorukhkar bt Rajgopal 15-0, 15-0; Nikhil Kolhatkar bt Bharat Goel 15-4, 15-6; Aditya Kulkarni bt Tejas Ebbote 15-2, 15-2; Anish Kanekar bt Varun Govande 15-6, 15-7; Pravin Upadhyaya bt Amirkhan 15-8, 15-6; Merric Gonsalves bt Vasant Narayan 15-2, 15-7; Akshay Thakkar bt Pratap Bhuskar 15-2, 15-5.

Midget boys' singles (pre-quarter-finals): Varun Govande bt Sumeet Kale 15-1, 15-0; Rohit Narke btAniket Vyavahare 15-2, 15-0; Mandar Jadhav bt Ashwin Yeole 15-4, 15-2; A Khulkar bt Angad BAste 15-10, 15-5; Arohan Singh bt B Bhattacharya 15-0, 15-0; Sudeep Joshi bt A Majumdar 15-4, 15-4.

Sub-junior girls' singles (quarter-finals): Mayura Wagle bt Manasi Marathe 11-0, 11-4; Ruma Rane bt Reshmi Yeolekar 11-5, 11-3; Shweta Khare bt Poorna Misra 11-5, 11-0.

CBI allowed to play

The Western India Football Association have after a meeting held on Wednesday decided that Central Bank will be allowed to play in the Super Division league till a final decision is taken by the Disciplinary Sub-Committee which is expected to meet soon. The re-match of the Central Bank-Income-Tax clash will be held on August 8.

Badminton tourney

The Dadar Bagini Samaj will be conducting their open Badminton tournament from August 29 to September 4. Entries will be accepted at the Samaj from August 20 to 23. More details can be had from Madhuri Gadre 4134446, Chaba Savant 4145535 or Vidya Sapre4142789.

TT tourney put off

The Middle Income Group-conducted Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis tournament had been postponed till further notice.