North Sea Cup (chess)

For the ice hockey competition, see North Sea Cup.

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	Rath,Ulrik !Ulrik Rath Kunstowicz,Uwe !Uwe Kunstowicz
2	1977	Kristiansen,Jens !Jens Kristiansen
3	1978	Larsen,Bent !Bent Larsen
4	1979	Vadasz,Laszlo !Laszlo Vadasz Mestel,Jonathan !Jonathan Mestel
5	1980	Yusupov, ArturArtur Yusupov
6	1981	Karlsson,Lars !Lars Karlsson
7	1982	Ftáčnik, ĽubomírĽubomír Ftáčnik
8	1983	Hansen,Curt !Curt Hansen
9	1984	Short,Nigel !Nigel Short
10	1985	Adorjan,Andras !Andras Adorjan
11	1986	Hoi,Carsten !Carsten Hoi
12	1987	Hansen,Lars Bo !Lars Bo Hansen
13	1988	Vaganian,Rafael !Rafael Vaganian Kupreichik,Viktor !Viktor Kupreichik
14	1996	Emms,John !John Emms
15	2000	Svidler,Peter !Peter Svidler Gurevich,Mikhail !Mikhail Gurevich
16	2001	Nielsen,Peter Heine !Peter Heine Nielsen Sutovsky,Emil !Emil Sutovsky
17	2002	Bruzon,Lazaro !Lazaro Bruzon Dominguez,Leinier !Leinier Domínguez
18	2003	Dreev,Alexey !Alexey Dreev McShane,Luke !Luke McShane Sasikiran,Krishnan !Krishnan Sasikiran
19	2004	Sedlak,Nikola !Nikola Sedlak
20	2005	Belov,Vladimir !Vladimir Belov
21	2006	Djuric,Stefan !Stefan Djuric Kveinys,Aloyzas !Aloyzas Kveinys Rausis,Igor !Igor Rausis Schebler,Gerhard !Gerhard Schebler
22	2007	Rasmussen,Karsten !Karsten Rasmussen
23	2008	Malakhatko,Vadim !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