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

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# 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

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