CAPPELLE LA GRANDE
Little French city nearby Dunkirk which is hosting annually the largest and the strongest Open tournament organized in France with a number record of 702 participants in 2001. Jean-Claude Templeur, who was the creator of the event, has been succeeded by Michel Gouvart at the head of the organization.
The winners were: 1985 W. Hanasz, 1986 Sergey Smagin, 1987 Antony Kosten, 1988 Vladimir Okhotnik, 1989 Nukhim Rashkovski, 1990 Nukhim Rashkovski, 1991 Anatoly Vaisser, 1992 Julian Hodgson, 1993 Evgeny Solozhenkhin, 1994 Vladimir Chuchulov, 1995 Antony Miles, 1996 Nenachev-Graf, 1997 Vladimir Burmakin, 1998 Igor Glek, 1999 Simen Agdestein, 2000 Yuri Kruppa, 2001 Vladimir Chuchelov, 2002 Edouard Rozentalis, 2003 Vladimir Burmakin, 2004 Evgeny Najer, 2005 Davit Shengelia, 2006 Alexander Moiseenko, 2007 Hao Wang, 2008 Vugar Gashimov, 2009 Yuri Vovk, 2010 Yaroslav Zherebukh, 2011 Gajewski Grzegorz, 2012 Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze, Tigran Gharamian and Martyn Kravtsiv, 2013 Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Sergey Fedorchuk, Eric Hansen, Vlad-Cristian Jianu, Alexei Fedorov and Yuri Vovk, 2014 Axel Bachmann, Sergei Azarov, 2015 Li Chao and Vladimir Onischuk, 2016 Gata Kamsky, 2017 Jean Marc Degraeve, 2018 Christian Bauer and Momchil Nikolov, 2019 Miguoel Admiraal, Sergey Fedorchuk, Namig Guliyev, Maxime Lagarde and Jules Moussard, 2020 Antoine Bournel.
