* Nikita Vityugov took silver at the 2006 World Chess Juniors and Girls Championships in Armenia with 9 points in the 13 games. Zaven Andriasyan (Armenia) won the title with 9.5 points and Yuriy Krivoruchenko (Ukraine) took bronze with 9 points.
* At the $2.6-mln Madrid Open ATP tennis tournament in Spain (through October 22):
- Dmitry Tursunov failed to advance to the second round, losing to Kristof Vliegen (Belgium) 3-6, 1-6
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague results and standings:
Universitet-Ugra Surgut - Khimky Moscow Region - 83:92
1 Spartak-Primorye - 3 games/5 points
2 Dinamo Moscow - 3/5
3 Khimky Moscow Region - 3/5
4 UNICS Kazan - 2/4
5 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 3/4
6 Spartak St. Petersburg - 2/3
7 CSK VVS Samara - 2/3
8 CSKA Moscow - 1/2
9 Dinamo Moscow Region - 1/2
10 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 2/2
11 Standard Samara Region - 2/2
12 Ural-Great Perm - 1/1
13 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 1/1
* Russian women's basketball SuperLeague results and standings:
UGMK Yekaterinburg - Dinamo-Energia Novosibirsk - 86:47
Dinamo Kursk - Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg - 85:47
Dinamo Moscow Region - Shelen Krasnoyarsk - 95:70
NUR Kazan - CSKA Samara - 48:78
1 UGMK - 1 game/2 points
2 Dinamo Kursk - 1/2
3 CSKA Samara - 1/2
4 Dinamo Moscow Region - 1/2
5 Shelen - 1/1
6 NUR - 1/1
7 Baltiyskaya Zvezda - 1/1
8 Dinamo-Energia - 1/1
9-12 Dinamo Moscow - 0/0
9-12 Spartak Vidnoye - 0/0
9-12 Nadezhda Orenburg - 0/0
9-12 Vologda-Chevakata Vologda - 0/0
