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
[edit]# Year Winner 1 1976 Ulrik Rath
Uwe Kunstowicz2 1977 Jens Kristiansen 3 1978 Bent Larsen 4 1979 László Vadász
Jonathan Mestel5 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 Kupreichik14 1996 John Emms 15 2000 Peter Svidler
Mikhail Gurevich16 2001 Peter Heine Nielsen
Emil Sutovsky17 2002 Lazaro Bruzon
Leinier Domínguez18 2003 Alexey Dreev
Luke McShane
Krishnan Sasikiran19 2004 Nikola Sedlak 20 2005 Vladimir Belov 21 2006 Stefan Đurić
Aloyzas Kveinys
Igor Rausis
Gerhard Schebler22 2007 Karsten Rasmussen 23 2008 Vadim Malakhatko
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- 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
