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Eighth
Cap d'Agde Rapid Chess TournamentThis event is taking place from October 26 to November 1, 2008 in Cap d'Agde (pronounced kap-dug-de), which is a seaside resort belonging to the town of Agde. It is one of the largest leisure ports on the French Mediterranean. The event is a closed rapid chess tournament in two groups. The winners play in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and then the finals. The results of the preliminaries were as follows:
Group A |
Group B |
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| Fabiano Caruana | 2640 | 5.5 | Magnus Carlsen | 2786 | 5.5 | |
| Vassily Ivanchuk | 2786 | 5.0 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2704 | 5.5 | |
| Max. Vachier Lagrave | 2716 | 4.5 | Teimour Radjabov | 2751 | 5.0 | |
| Bu Xiangzhi | 2704 | 4.5 | Anatoly Karpov | 2651 | 3.5 | |
| Ivan Cheparinov | 2696 | 4.0 | Hou Yifan | 2578 | 3.5 | |
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2525 | 2.0 | Humpy Koneru | 2618 | 2.0 | |
| Katerina Lahno | 2488 | 2.0 | Sebastien Feller | 2526 | 2.0 | |
| Marie Sebag | 2533 | 0.5 | Almira Skripchenko | 2455 | 1.0 | |
Average Elo 2636 |
Average Elo 2634 |
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Note that Anatoly Karpov, the 12th World Champion, now 57, scored the same number of points as Hou Yifan, Chinese chess prodigy, female, who is 14 years old. The two had to play a blitz tiebreaker for a place in the knockout section of the tournament. The first game (3' + 2") was won by Krapov with white, the second by Hou Yifan with white. The third game went to Karpov who then won the fourth as well.
Youth vs experience: Hou Yifan, 14, vs Anatoly Karpov, 57
In the quarter-final Karpov faced more young blood: 16-year-old chess prodigy Fabiano Caruana from Italy. Karpov won the first rapid chess game with black, Fabiano the second also with black. The first two blitz games were drawn, as was the third. In the fourth Karpov won with black to enter the semi-finals.
In the second quarter-final Teimour Radjabov and Vassily Ivanchuk drew both their games. Both of the 3+2 blitz games were won by Ivanchuk, who joins Karpov in the semis.
Teimour Radjabov vs Vassily Ivanchuk int he quarter-finals
LinksThe games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. |
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