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The spectacular finals of the Cap D'Agde tournament takes place today between the classical favorite Ivanchuk and the maverick Nakamura. Update: Hiraku Nakamura of the USA won the Cap D'Agde 2008 tournament by clearly outplaying Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine 1.5-0.5 Watch the live coverage here. We will post the moves regularly. Finals Game 2 - Vassily Ivanchuk (2786) - Hikaru Nakamura (2704) : 1/2 Game 1 - Hikaru Nakamura (2704) - Vassily Ivanchuk (2786) : 1-0 Ivanchuk started to go astray around move 32 and was thoroughly outplayed after that. Game 2 1-0

Here are some of the Results of the two events. (Please see the Corsica - Kasparov Simul results at the end of this post) Cap d'Agde Initial Results Caruana is turning out to be the star of this tournament (considering the others are already stars!) Cheparinov, Caruana and Vachier Lagrave are favorites to advance. Ivanchuk has to fight to stay in the race for the Quarterfinal race. In group B, favorites Carlsen and Radjabov are coasting along with dominating performances. The critical game between Carlsen and Radjabov has started (28th Oct evening) Karpov is playing against Koneru Humpy, who had beaten him some time back, so he has a chance to take revenge. Karpov lost to Nakamura 0-1 A game from this tournament. Carlsen beat Skripchenko pretty handily 1-0 In the first round, Caruana caused a minor upset beating Xiangzhi. Karpov was held to a draw by teenage sensation Hou Yifan, Vachier Lagrave drew with Ivanchuk. Earlier, Vachier Lagrave easily beat the fresh World Women's cha...