POLITIKEN CUP

The strongest Danish Open organised by the Københavns Skak Union yearly since 1979 in Copenhagen and sponsored by the newspaper Politiken. In 2016 the main sponsor of the tournament became the Danish IT company Xtracon A/S. Accordingly, the tournament was renamed as Xtracon Chess Open. 

The winners were: 1979 Carsten Høi, 1980 1-2 Vassily Smyslov and Adrian Mikhalchishin, 1981 1-3 Peter Velikov, Tom Wedberg and Shaun M Taulbut, 1982 Tom Wedberg , 1983 Istvan Csom , 1984 1-2 Nick de Firmian and    Aleksander Sznapik, 1985 Karel Mokry  7.5/10, 1986 1-4 Vassily Smyslov, Alexander Chernin, Evgeny Pigusov and Laszlo Cserna, 1987 Bjørn Brinck Claussen, 1988 Vaganian,Rafael, 1989 1-3 Lars Karlsson, Aleksander Sznapik and Jens Kristiansen, 1990 Konstantin Lerner, 1991 1-2 Yury Dokhoian and Yury Piskov, 1992 1-4 Sergey Smagin, Matthew Sadler, John Emms and Avigdor Bykhovsky, 1993 1-3 Igor Khenkin, John Emms and Henrik Danielsen, 1994 1-2 Valery Neverov and Mihail Brodskij, 1995 Lars Bo Hansen, 1996 Viktor Korchnoi, 1997 1-4 Helgi Ass Gretarsson, Carsten Høi, Erling Mortensen and Lars Schandorff, 1998 1-5 Hannes Stefansson, Daniel Gormally, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Lars Schandorff and Nikolaj Borge, 1999 1-2 Alexander Baburin and Tiger Hillarp Persson, 2000 1-3 Boris Gulko, Lars Bo Hansen and Jonny Hector, 2001 1-5 Mikhail Gurevich, Alexander Rustemov, Peter Heine Nielsen, Lev Psakhis and Nick de Firmian, 2002 1-3 Sergei Tiviakov , Alexander Beliavsky and Ruben Felgaer, 2003 Krishnan Sasikiran , 2004 Darmen Sadvakasov, Leif Erlend Johannessen and Nick de Firmian, 2005 Konstantin Sakaev, 2006 Vadim Malakhatko, 2007 Mikhail Krasenkow, 2008  Sergey Tiviakov. 2009 Boris Avrukh, 2010 Pavel Eljanov, 2011 Igor Kurnosov, 2012 Ivan Cheparinov, 2013 Parimarjan Negi, 2014 Bu Xiangzhi, 2015 Markus Ragger, 2016 Matthias Blübaum, 2017 Baadur Jobava, 2018 Jon Ludvig Hammer, 2019 R Praggnanandhaa.