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 edit
- 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 edit
- ^ Dornbusch, Philippe (2017-02-26). "Jean-Marc Degraeve s'impose à l'Open de Cappelle 2017". Chess & Strategy (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Christian Bauer is the winner in Capelle La Grande 2018". Chessdom. 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (2019-02-25). "TWIC 1268: 35th Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2019". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
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- ^ "38e Open de Cappelle la Grande - 2022 - Classement après la ronde 9". Fédération Française des Echecs. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
- ^ "39e Open International de Cappelle la Grande - Classement après la ronde 9". Fédération Française des Echecs. Retrieved 2023-08-31.