North Sea Cup (chess)

The North Sea Cup was an open chess tournament played in Esbjerg, Denmark from 1976 to 2008. Until 2003 there was an amateur section (a Swiss system tournament) and a 10-player round-robin tournament for titled players. The exceptions are 1986 and 1987. In 1986 the titled section was the play off for the Danish Chess Championship. In 1987 the titled section was replaced by the Danish Juniors' Championship. From 2004 the tournament has only one division, a nine- or ten-round Swiss system.

The North Sea Cup was not played in 2009.

Winners

#	Year	Winner
1	1976	Ulrik Rath Uwe Kunstowicz
2	1977	Jens Kristiansen
3	1978	Bent Larsen
4	1979	László Vadász Jonathan Mestel
5	1980	Artur Yusupov
6	1981	Lars Karlsson
7	1982	Ľubomír Ftáčnik
8	1983	Curt Hansen
9	1984	Nigel Short
10	1985	Andras Adorjan
11	1986	Carsten Hoi (match winner)
12	1987	Lars Bo Hansen (Danish Junior's Ch)
13	1988	Rafael Vaganian Viktor Kupreichik
14	1996	John Emms
15	2000	Peter Svidler Mikhail Gurevich
16	2001	Peter Heine Nielsen Emil Sutovsky
17	2002	Lazaro Bruzon Leinier Domínguez
18	2003	Alexey Dreev Luke McShane Krishnan Sasikiran
19	2004	Nikola Sedlak
20	2005	Vladimir Belov
21	2006	Stefan Đurić Aloyzas Kveinys Igor Rausis Gerhard Schebler
22	2007	Karsten Rasmussen
23	2008	Vadim Malakhatko

References

Homepage of the North Sea Cup

External links

Chessbase News (22 July 2003). "18th North Sea Cup – Esbjerge, Denmark. July 4-12.
Weeks, Mark (17 August 2006). The Week in Chess 610, "21st North Sea Cup".
North Sea Cup Esbjerg Denmark

Major recurring international chess tournaments
Strong chess tournaments Mini chess tournaments Round-robin chess tournaments
Major present (average rating > 2700; round-robin system generally)	Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (since 1973) Grand Chess Tour (since 2015) Grenke Chess Classic (since 2013) London Chess Classic (since 2009) Norway Chess (since 2013) Shamkir Chess (since 2014) Shenzhen Masters (since 2017) Sinquefield Cup (since 2013) Tata Steel Chess Tournament (since 1938)
Other present (Swiss system generally)	Aeroflot Open (since 2002) Australasian Masters (since 1987) Biel Chess Festival (since 1968) Canadian Open (since 1956) Capablanca Memorial (since 1962) Cappelle-la-Grande Open (since 1985) Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial (since 1987) Chigorin Memorial (since 1909) Doeberl Cup (since 1963) Dubai Open (since 1999) Gibraltar Chess Festival (since 2003) Hastings International Chess Congress (since 1920) Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament (since 1995) Lublin Grandmaster Tournament (since 2009) Paul Keres Memorials (Tallinn, since 1969) (Vancouver, since 1975) Qatar Masters Open (2014–2015, since 2023) Reykjavik Open (since 1964) Riga Technical University Open (since 2011) Rubinstein Memorial (since 1963) South African Open (since 1962) U.S. Open (since 1900) Vidmar Memorial (since 1969) World Open (since 1973) Xtracon Chess Open (since 1979) Zurich Christmas Open (since 1977)
Recently cancelled (after 2000)	Alekhine Memorial (1956–2013, irregular) Acropolis (1968–2009) Aerosvit (2006–2008) Amber (1992–2011) Bilbao Chess Masters Final (2008–2016) Howard Staunton Memorial (2003–2009) Linares (1978–2010) Mar del Plata (1928–2001) Millionaire Chess (2014–2016) M-Tel Masters (2005–2009) North Sea Cup (1976–2008) Pearl Spring (2008–2010) Reggio Emilia (1947–2012) Tal Memorial (2006–2018) Zurich Chess Challenge (2012–2017)
Major past (19th–20th century)	American Chess Congress (1857–1923) Carl Schlechter Memorial (1923–1996) DSB Congress (1879–1932) General Government (1940–1944) IBM international (1961–1981) Konex (1977–1994) Leopold Trebitsch Memorial (1907–1938) Lone Pine International (1971–1981) Max Euwe Memorial (1987–1996) Monte Carlo (1901–1904; 1967–1969) Netanya (1961–1983) Palma de Mallorca (1965–1972) Phillips & Drew Kings (1980–1986) Piatigorsky Cup (1963–1966) San Sebastián (1911–1912) Silesian Chess Congress (1922–1939) Tilburg (1977–1998) Triberg (1914–1917)
Chess competitions National championships Supranational championships

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.