NORTH SEA CUP

This round-robin pride of Danish chess grew out of nothing and peaked at category 11 in 1988, when the organiser – the Esbjerg Chess Union – decided to call it a day. In 1986 and 1987 the tournament ran as an Open.
The winners were: 1976  Ulrik Rath and Uwe Kunstowicz, 1977  Jens Kristiansen, 1978 Bent Larsen (cat 7) 1979, GM Laszlo Vadasz and  Jonathan Mestel (cat 10), 1980 Artur Jusupov (cat 8), 1981 Lars Karlsson (cat 8), 1982 Lubomir Ftacnik (cat 8), 1983 Curt Hansen  (cat 7), 1984 IM Nigel Short (cat 10), 1985 Andras Adorjan (cat 9), 1986 Crsten Hoi, 1987 Lars Bo Hansen, 1988 Rafael Vaganjan, Viktor Kuprejtjik (cat 8), 1996 John Emms, 2000 Peter Svidler and Mikhail Gurevich, 2001 Peter Heine Nielsen and Emil Sutovsky, 2002 Bruzon, Dominguez, 2003 Dreev, McShane and Sasikiran, 2006 Stefan Djuric, 2007 Karsten Rasmussen, 2008 Vadim Malakhatko.