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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

The prestigious Cap d'Agde chess tournament starts on October 26. This year, the organizers have assembled an assortment of riches in terms of players gathered. Apart from the usual stars, the organizers have invited Nakamura, who is a blitz expert and also Karpov, who is no pushover in the rapid format. Add a dash of the female brigade and you have an interesting tourney. Participants Group A GM Vasily Ivanchuk Ukraine 2786 GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave France 2716 GM Bu Xiangzhi China 2714 GM Ivan Cheparinov Bulgaria 2696 GM Fabiano Caruana Italy 2640 GM Marie Sebag France 2533 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Russia 2525 GM Katerina Lahno Ukraine 2488 Group B GM Magnus Carlsen Norway 2786 GM Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 2751 GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2704 GM Anatoly Karpov Russia 2651 GM Humpy Koneru India 2618 WGM Hou Yifan China 2578 GM Sebastien Feller France 2526 WGM Almira Skripchenko France 2455 The initial rounds will be rapid games of 25 minutes +10 seconds each. The top four in each grou...

Six rounds of the North American open have been completed. GM Alexander Shabalov is leading the strong field with 5.5 points. He has won all his games except one. GM Hiraku Nakamura and GM Varuzhan Akobian along with IM David Pruess. FMs Alex Kretchetov and Jake Kleiman are ranked high in a strong field. Nakamura was held to two draws by IM Joshua Friedel and GM Jesse Kraai. No results of a few rounds of Irina Krush have been published. The top 20 after round 6: 1 GM Alexander Shabalov 5½ 2 GM Hikaru Nakamura 5 3 GM Varuzhan Akobian 5 4 IM David Pruess 5 5 GM Ildar Ibragimov 4½ 6 GM Julio J Becerra 4½ 7 FM Alex Kretchetov 4½ 8 FM Jake Kleiman 4½ 9 GM Nikola Mitkov 4 10 GM Jesse Kraai 4 11 GM Gildardo J Garcia 4 12 GM Dashze Sharavdorj 4 13 IM Vladimi Mezentsev 4 14 FM Slava Mikhailuk 4 15 Denys K Shmelov 4 16 FM Robby Adamson 4 17 Dennis Monokroussos 4 18 GM Anatoly Y Lein 4 19 FM Matthew Beelby 4 20 Rodelay Medina 4