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CHESS: JERUSALEM: The world's reigning chess champion, Garry Kasparov (in picture), announced that he would checkmate Junior, an Israeli-born chess computer programme, in a battle of man versus machine in Jerusalem in October. Kasparov won against IBM's computer chess programme Deep Blue in 1996, but has until now refrained from testing Junior, which defeated chess greats in the last two annual World computer chess championships. Flanked by Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and Junior creator Shay Bushinsky, Kasparov announced his intention to accept the computer programme's challenge. GOLF: GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN: Tiger Woods has a new target; now that he can't win the Grand Slam this year. Woods can be the first golfer to win three majors in one year twice, if his warm-up during the Buick Open leads to a victory at next week's PGA Championship. ``Myself and (Ben) Hogan are the only ones who have ever won three in the same year,'' Woods said. ``So, that would be nice to win three out of four again.'' A slew of major winners and money-list leaders are choosing to play — rather than practicing and resting — before playing Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, next week. Fifteen of the last 19 major winners and four of the top five and 12 of the top 20 on the money list will prepare for the fourth and final major at Warwick Hills, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Detroit. Woods is playing in his first tournament since the British Open where he finished tied for 28th — following a third-round 81, his worse score as a professional — and spoiled his chance of winning the Grand Slam. TENNIS: NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: Hall-of-Famer Martina Navratilova will play doubles at the Pilot Pen tournament, the final warm-up for the U.S. Open. Navratilova, winner of a record 167 singles and 166 doubles titles, will team with Iroda Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan. Navratilova, 45, retired from singles competition in November 1994, but returned to play doubles at the 2000 Wimbledon championships and has competed in several major events since then. She teamed with Natasha Zvereva to win the doubles title at Madrid in May, her first title since the 1995 Wimbledon mixed doubles competition, when she was paired with fellow American Jonathan Stark. Navratilova played doubles in the 2000 Pilot Pen, reaching the semifinals with partner Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia. MOTOR SPORTS: INDIANAPOLIS: Former Indy 500 driver Jim Crawford of Scotland died on Tuesday in Florida, Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials said. He was 54. The cause of death was not immediately available. Crawford retired from racing after the 1993 Indianapolis 500, and became a fishing boat captain in the St. Petersburg, Florida area. He made eight Indy 500 starts, finishing a career-best sixth in 1988, and also competed briefly in Formula One. Survivors include wife Annie and son Geoffrey. BOXING: IOWA CITY: Former middleweight champion Michael Nunn was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, federal prosecutors said. Nunn, 39, was arrested on Tuesday night after allegedly buying $ 24,000 worth of cocaine from an undercover FBI agent, said Al Overbaugh, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison. Chief U.S. District Judge Ronald Longstaff set a detention hearing for August 9. Nunn, a former IBF middleweight and WBA super middleweight champion, is being held by at the Muscatine County Jail without bail, Overbaugh said. CRICKET: MELBOURNE: Australia test cricketer Mark Waugh has said the latest violence in Pakistan places further doubt over Australia's tour of that country in October. Six Pakistanis were shot dead in an attack on a school for children of foreign missionaries near Islamabad on Monday. ``Obviously what happened two days ago with the shooting at the international school puts a few more question marks over the tour,'' Waugh said in an interview on Australian radio station Sport 927. ``There's no doubt about that. I think the ACB (Australian Cricket Board) would be first to admit that.'' Several other senior players have also expressed reservations about the tour. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf contacted Australian Prime Minister John Howard and told him that the safety of the Australian cricket team could be guaranteed, Howard revealed last week. Athletics: TOKYO: Japanese Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi will run in September's Berlin marathon, her coach said in a statement released on Thursday. Takahashi set a world record of 2 hours, 19 minutes, 46 seconds at last year's Berlin marathon. The record was broken one week later in Chicago by Kenyan runner Catherine Ndereba with a time of 2:18:47. Takahashi, who captured Japan's only gold medal in athletics in the Sydney Olympics, will be running her first marathon in a year — since Berlin. After capturing gold in Sydney two years ago, the 30-year-old Takahashi was sidelined with stomach problems reported to be a result of stress and fatigue. Takahashi, who also plans to take part in the Tokyo international women's marathon in November, went to the United States in June for high-altitude training in Colorado.
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