Alexandra is flying down today to the well-known French chess town of Cap d’Agde, where she has been invited to take place in the Rapid Invitational. The participants are as follows (in order of starting ELO): Radjabov, Bacrot, Carlsen, Harikrishna, Karjakin, Karpov, Volokitin, Fressinet, Vachier-Lagrave, Negi, Koneru, Kosteniuk, Stefanova, Sebag, Zhao Xue, and Skripchenko. It will be a very interesting tournament to follow! Have a look at the Organizer’s Site and this page (in French). Also, make sure to visit Alexandra’s podcast page, so you can listen to the 24th episode (6 minutes MP3 file), which just came out today. Prizes are offered to people who send a nice MP3 greeting by email to Alexandra to celebrate the podcast 1st year anniversary on November 7. Finally, please answer the poll to the right, thanks!

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