8 Cap d'Agde Rapid Chess Tournament

Cap d'Agde Chess festival takes place from 26 October - 1 November , in rapid chess event (25 mins + 10 sec), the particapant devide by 2 groups. The top 4 from each group then advance to play in head-to-head quarter-finals, with the winner of group A playing the fourth placed in group B ,the final on 1 November.


Group A
Fabiano Caruana (2640) : 5.5
Vassily Ivanchuk (2786) : 5.0
Maxime Vachier Lagrave (2716) : 4.5
Bu Xiangzhi (2704) : 4.5 Ivan Cheparinov (2696) : 4.0
Alexandra Kosteniuk (2525) : 2.0
Katerina Lahno (2488) : 2.0
Marie Sebag (2533) : 0.5

Group B
Magnus Carlsen (2786) : 5.5
Hikaru Nakamura (2704) : 5.5
Teimour Radjabov (2751) : 5.0
Anatoly Karpov (2651) : 3.5 Hou Yifan (2578) : 3.5
Humpy Koneru (2618) : 2.0
Sebastien Feller (2526) : 2.0
Almira Skripchenko (2455) : 1.0

Anatoly Karpov defeated Hou Yifan 3-1 in a playoff and advance to Quater-finals.

Quarter-Finals
Carlsen 1.5-0.5 Xiangzhi
Nakamura 1.0-1.0 Vachier Lagrave (2-0 on blitz playoff)
Ivanchuk 1.0-1.0 Radjabov (2-0 on blitz playoff)
Caruana 1.0-1.0 Karpov (0.0-1.5 blitz playoff)

Semi-Finals

Carlsen 1.0-1.0 Ivanchuk (0.5-1.5 blitz playoff)
Nakamura 1.0-1.0 Karpov (2-0 blitz playoff)

Final:

Vassily Ivanchuk-- ½-½ --Hikaru Nakamura
Hikaru Nakamura-- 1-0 --Vassily Ivanchuk

Winner: Hikaru Nakamura


Ivanchuk, Vassily (2786) vs. Carlsen, Magnus (2786)
Trophee CCAS FRA 1/2 / Cap Agde FRA
31 Oct 2008
ECO: A30 1-0



Nakamura, Hikaru (2704) vs. Vachier Lagrave, Maxime (2716)
Trophee CCAS FRA 1/4 / Cap Agde FRA
30 Oct 2008
ECO: A57 1-0

source: chess.com & chessbase