Cappelle-la-Grande Open

The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985. It is usually played in the second half of February with an accelerated Swiss-system format in nine rounds. It is organized by the chess club L'Echiquier Cappellois and is played in the Palais des Arts of Cappelle-la-Grande.

It has become over the years one of the largest opens in the world, but in terms of average player strength slightly behind the Gibraltar Chess Festival or the Aeroflot Open of Moscow.

List of winners
  • Note: with multiple first-place finishers, the winner on the Buchholz tie-break is listed first.
# Year Winner(s) Points Players
  1 1985 Waldemar Hanasz (Poland)6½    68
  2 1986 Sergey Smagin (Soviet Union)
 Viacheslav Eingorn (Soviet Union)
 Joseph Gallagher (England)		6  106
  3 1987 Anthony Kosten (England)
 Anatoly Vaisser (Soviet Union)
 Jonny Hector (Sweden)		7  115
  4 1988 Vladimir Okhotnik (Soviet Union)7½  138
  5 1989 Nukhim Rashkovsky (Soviet Union)
 Mark Hebden (England)		7  137
  6 1990 Nukhim Rashkovsky (Soviet Union)
 Mark Hebden (England)		7½  201
  7 1991 Anatoly Vaisser (Soviet Union)
 Matthew Sadler (England)		8  289
  8 1992 Julian Hodgson (England)8  308
  9 1993 Evgeniy Solozhenkin (Russia)7½  416
 10 1994 Vladimir Chuchelov (Russia)
 Tony Miles (England)
 Gennadi Kuzmin (Ukraine)
 Mark Hebden (England)		7  401
 11 1995 Tony Miles (England)
 Mark Hebden (England)
 Evgeny Sveshnikov (Russia)		7  572
 12 1996 Alexander Nenashev (Uzbekistan)7½  509
 13 1997 Vladimir Burmakin (Russia)
 Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine)
 Ľubomír Ftáčnik (Slovakia)
 Jean-Marc Degraeve (France)
 Alexey Vyzmanavin (Russia)
 Tony Miles (England)
 Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan)
 Yuri Kruppa (Ukraine)
 Mark Hebden (England)
 Darius Ruželė (Lithuania)		7  504
 14 1998 Igor Glek (Russia)7½  637
 15 1999 Simen Agdestein (Norway)
 Mikhail Gurevich (Belgium)
 Pavel Tregubov (Russia)		7½  615
 16 2000 Yuri Kruppa (Ukraine)
 Gilberto Milos (Brazil)		7½  643
 17 2001 Vladimir Chuchelov (Belgium)
 Einar Gausel (Norway)		7½  702
 18 2002 Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania)7½  677
 19 2003 Vladimir Burmakin (Russia)
 Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania)
 Philipp Schlosser (Germany)
 Alexander Areshchenko (Ukraine)
 Jakov Geller (Russia)
 Dmitry Bocharov (Russia)
 Evgeny Miroshnichenko (Ukraine)		7  606
 20 2004 Evgeny Najer (Russia)
 Kaido Külaots (Estonia)
 Artyom Timofeev (Russia)
 Zoltan Gyimesi (Hungary)
 Sergey Grigoriants (Russia)
 Oleg Korneev (Russia)		7  576
 21 2005 David Shengelia (Georgia)
 Michail Brodsky (Ukraine)		7½  589
 22 2006 Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine)7½  624
 23 2007 Wang Yue (China)
 Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan)
 David Arutinian (Georgia)
 Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine)
 Vasily Yemelin (Russia)		7  608
 24 2008 Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan)
 David Arutinian (Georgia)
 Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine)
 Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukraine)
 Konstantin Chernyshov (Russia)
 Andrei Deviatkin (Russia)
 Vasilios Kotronias (Greece)
 Erwin L'Ami (Netherlands)		7  612
 25 2009 Yuri Vovk (Ukraine)7½  610
 26 2010 Yaroslav Zherebukh (Ukraine)7½  652
 27 2011 Grzegorz Gajewski (Poland)7½  573
 28 2012 Pentala Harikrishna (India)
 Parimarjan Negi (India)
 Tornike Sanikidze (Georgia)
 Tigran Gharamian (France)
 Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukraine)		7  497
 29 2013 Sanan Sjugirov (Russia)
 Parimarjan Negi (India)
 Maxim Rodshtein (Israel)
 Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine)
 Eric Hansen (Canada)
 Vlad-Cristian Jianu (Romania)
 Alexei Fedorov (Belarus)
 Yuri Vovk (Ukraine)		7  564
 30 2014 Axel Bachmann (Paraguay)
 Sergei Azarov (Belarus)		7½  604
 31 2015 Li Chao (China)
 Vladimir Onischuk (Ukraine)		7½  555
 32 2016 Gata Kamsky (United States)7½  538
 33 2017[1] Jean-Marc Degraeve (France)8  216
 34 2018[2] Christian Bauer (France)
 Momchil Nikolov (Bulgaria)		8  360
 35 2019[3] Miguoel Admiraal (Netherlands)
 Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine)
 Namig Guliyev (Azerbaijan)
 Maxime Lagarde (France)
 Jules Moussard (France)		7½  332
36 2020[4]  Jules Moussard (France) 8 332
37 2021 Cancelled
38 2022[5]  Vladislav Bakhmatsky (Ukraine)
 Nihal Sarin (India)
 Martin Petrov (Bulgaria)
 Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine)
 Jesper Søndergaard Thybo (Denmark)
 Momchil Nikolov (Bulgaria)
 Nico Zwirs (Netherlands)
 Julien Song (France)		 7 341
39 2023[6]  S. P. Sethuraman (India)
 Harsha Bharathakoti (India)		 7½ 382

References
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