Youth wins

SIXTEEN-year-old Ahmed Adli stole the spotlight from international veterans, winning Egypt's Chess Grand Masters Championship. Egyptian Adli, who is seeded 2,429 in the world, gathered 7.5 points from six victories over two Ukrainian Grand Masters, a Frenchman and Egyptians Essam El-Guindi, Essam Ali and Mohamed Ezzat. He drew against Grand Masters from Holland, Hungary and Lithuania.

The tournament, organised by the Egyptian Chess Federation, included Grand Masters from The Netherlands, Ukraine, Hungary, Lithuania and France, in addition to six Egyptians.

The competition ended with five players sharing the same number of points, 6.5, including Egypt's 14-year-old Bassim Samir, another promising talent.

Hussein Nafadi, the Egyptian Chess Federation's secretary-general, said the Ministry of Youth will give LE103,OOO to help Adli and Samir become international Grand Masters, a title never claimed by any Arab player since its inception in 1894.

US signing

HAVING terminated the contract of American basketball player Carlos Willer, Zamalek club of Egypt signed another US player, Donald. The 209-centimetre-tall Donald, who played college basketball, will be making $4,000 a month for eight months, the duration of the season.

Also, Zamalek will host the African Basketball Champions League during the first half of November.

For the victims

DISABLED Egyptian swimmer Mustafa Khalil will participate in the International Manhattan Race, to be held on 20 September in the US. The event is being held to honour those who died in the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington.

All Egypt

EGYPT's Karim Ma'moun won the singles title in the Arab Men's Championship in Jordan. Ma'moun beat his compatriot Mohamed Ma'moun 7-6, 3-6, 6-3.

In the women's event, Egypt's Yumna Farid finished second after losing to Tunisia's Salima Saqr.

In doubles, Egypt's men and women came second.

The championship lasted from 3 to 10 September.

Shot dead

THE OLDEST sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, Yetunde Price, 31, has been shot dead in Los Angeles. She died on Sunday in hospital following a confrontation at a house in the southern suburb of Compton, an area where the Williams family used to live and a district notorious for poverty and violence.

"We are extremely shocked, saddened and devastated by the shooting death of our beloved Yetunde," the Williams family said in a statement. "Yetunde was a loving mother, daughter, sister and friend. Our grief is overwhelming, and this is the saddest day of our lives."

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), Price was riding in a white sports utility vehicle with an unidentified man when they became embroiled in a row with local residents.

"Detectives were on patrol when they heard multiple gunshots," said an LASD spokeswoman. "They went to the scene and discovered that a man and a woman had been involved in an incident with local residents. This led to gunfire and the victim died of upper torso injuries just after midnight."

Price's companion was uninjured and is helping police with their investigation. No-one has yet been arrested.

Price, who was divorced with three children and owned a beauty salon, was the eldest of five sisters.

She regularly accompanied Venus, 23, and Serena, 21 around the world and was often seen at Grand Slam tournaments.

All five girls are the daughters of Oracene Williams, who was married to the late Yusef AK Rasheed. She later married Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena.

Moment to savour

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER has hailed his victory in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza as one of the finest moments of his career. Schumacher seized back the initiative in the title race by holding off championship rival Juan Pablo Montoya to triumph on Ferrari's home track.

It was his first victory since the Canadian Grand Prix in June and his 50th for Ferrari, stretching his lead over Montoya to three points with two races to go.

Schumacher laid the foundations for his victory on the opening lap when he held off a determined challenge from Montoya and went on to control the race.

The victory leaves Schumacher the clear favourite to take a record sixth title as he leads Montoya by three points and McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen by seven going into the final races in the US and Japan.

Ferrari's technical director Ross Brawn admitted the victory had come as a relief after the team's disappointing display at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Vow to protest

OSCAR DE LA HOYA insists he will protest against the outcome of his much-hyped fight against Shane Mosley. Mosley won the fight for the WBC and WBA super welterweight titles on a points decision, leading to widespread booing among the Las Vegas crowd.

But De la Hoya, 30, who was looking to avenge defeat to Mosley for the WBC welterweight title in 2000, was clearly shocked by the decision and said he was prepared to spend part of his $17m purse on an investigation.

De la Hoya, who refused to be drawn on whether he would go through with his pledge to retire if he lost the fight, said the numbers show he clearly won Saturday's rematch. "I threw 615 punches to his 500 and landed 106 jabs to his 33 jabs," he said. "I have the finances to put the best lawyers on it. Boxing does not need this. I am getting tired of this."

Floyd Mayweather, De la Hoya's trainer, also blasted the decision and said his man fought a perfect fight. "These old judges are blind and senile. Clearly Oscar won the fight." said Mayweather. "He got a little tired in the 11th but he picked it up in the 12th. I don't know what he has to do to win a fight."

All three judges scored the fight 115-113 for Mosley, and all three gave Mosley the last four rounds, meaning De la Hoya's protest is likely to fall on deaf ears unless his lawyers can find evidence of malfeasance.

By Inas Mazhar