Cappelle-la-Grande Open

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

 * Note: with multiple first-place finishers, the winner on the Buchholz tie-break is listed first.


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! # ! Year ! Winner(s) ! Points ! Players
 * 1 || 1985|| 🇵🇱 Waldemar Hanasz (POL)  || style="text-align:center;"|6½ ||     68
 * 2  || 1986  || Sergey Smagin Viacheslav Eingorn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joseph Gallagher (ENG)|| style="text-align:center;"|6 ||   106
 * 3  || 1987  || 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Anthony Kosten (ENG) Anatoly Vaisser 🇸🇪 Jonny Hector (SWE) || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||   115
 * 4  || 1988  || Vladimir Okhotnik || style="text-align:center;"|7½||  138
 * 5  || 1989  || Nukhim Rashkovsky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Hebden (ENG) || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||   137
 * 6  || 1990  || Nukhim Rashkovsky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Hebden (ENG) || style="text-align:center;"|7½||   201
 * 7  || 1991  || Anatoly Vaisser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matthew Sadler (ENG)|| style="text-align:center;"|8 ||   289
 * 8  || 1992  || 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Julian Hodgson (ENG) || style="text-align:center;"|8 ||  308
 * 9  || 1993  || 🇷🇺 Evgeniy Solozhenkin (RUS) || style="text-align:center;"|7½||   416
 * 10  || 1994 || 🇷🇺 Vladimir Chuchelov (RUS) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tony Miles (ENG) 🇺🇦 Gennadi Kuzmin (UKR) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Hebden (ENG) || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||  401
 * 11  || 1995 || 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tony Miles (ENG) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Hebden (ENG) 🇷🇺 Evgeny Sveshnikov (RUS)  || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||   572
 * 12  || 1996 || 🇺🇿 Alexander Nenashev (UZB)  || style="text-align:center;"|7½ ||  509
 * 13  || 1997 || 🇷🇺 Vladimir Burmakin (RUS) 🇺🇦 Vladimir Baklan (UKR) 🇸🇰 Ľubomír Ftáčnik (SVK) 🇫🇷 Jean-Marc Degraeve (FRA) 🇷🇺 Alexey Vyzmanavin (RUS) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tony Miles (ENG) 🇺🇿 Rustam Kasimdzhanov (UZB) 🇺🇦 Yuri Kruppa (UKR) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Hebden (ENG) 🇱🇹 Darius Ruželė (LTU)  || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||  504
 * 14  || 1998 || 🇷🇺 Igor Glek (RUS)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½ ||  637
 * 15  || 1999 || 🇳🇴 Simen Agdestein (NOR) 🇧🇪 Mikhail Gurevich (BEL) 🇷🇺 Pavel Tregubov (RUS) || style="text-align:center;"|7½||  615
 * 16  || 2000 || 🇺🇦 Yuri Kruppa (UKR) 🇧🇷 Gilberto Milos (BRA)  || style="text-align:center;"|7½ ||  643
 * 17  || 2001 || 🇧🇪 Vladimir Chuchelov (BEL) 🇳🇴 Einar Gausel (NOR)  || style="text-align:center;"|7½||  702
 * 18  || 2002 || 🇱🇹 Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU)   || style="text-align:center;"|7½||  677
 * 19  || 2003 || 🇷🇺 Vladimir Burmakin (RUS) 🇱🇹 Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU) 🇩🇪 Philipp Schlosser (DEU) 🇺🇦 Alexander Areshchenko (UKR) 🇷🇺 Jakov Geller (RUS) 🇷🇺 Dmitry Bocharov (RUS) 🇺🇦 Evgeny Miroshnichenko (UKR) || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||  606
 * 20  || 2004 || 🇷🇺 Evgeny Najer (RUS) 🇪🇪 Kaido Külaots (EST) 🇷🇺 Artyom Timofeev (RUS) 🇭🇺 Zoltan Gyimesi (HUN) 🇷🇺 Sergey Grigoriants (RUS) 🇷🇺 Oleg Korneev (RUS) || style="text-align:center;"|7 ||  576
 * 21  || 2005 || David Shengelia 🇺🇦 Michail Brodsky (UKR) || style="text-align:center;"|7½||  589
 * 22  || 2006 || 🇺🇦 Alexander Moiseenko (UKR)   || style="text-align:center;"|7½||  624
 * 23  || 2007 || 🇨🇳 Wang Yue (CHN) 🇦🇿 Vugar Gashimov (AZE) David Arutinian 🇺🇦 Yuri Drozdovskij (UKR) 🇷🇺 Vasily Yemelin (RUS) || style="text-align:center;"|7||  608
 * 24  || 2008 || 🇦🇿 Vugar Gashimov (AZE) David Arutinian 🇺🇦 Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR) 🇺🇦 Yuriy Kryvoruchko (UKR) 🇷🇺 Konstantin Chernyshov (RUS) 🇷🇺 Andrei Deviatkin (RUS) 🇬🇷 Vasilios Kotronias (GRC) 🇳🇱 Erwin L'Ami (NLD) || style="text-align:center;"|7||  612
 * 25  || 2009 || 🇺🇦 Yuri Vovk (UKR)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  610
 * 26  || 2010 || 🇺🇦 Yaroslav Zherebukh (UKR)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  652
 * 27  || 2011 || 🇵🇱 Grzegorz Gajewski (POL)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  573
 * 28  || 2012 || 🇮🇳 Pentala Harikrishna (IND) 🇮🇳 Parimarjan Negi (IND) Tornike Sanikidze 🇫🇷 Tigran Gharamian (FRA) 🇺🇦 Martyn Kravtsiv (UKR) || style="text-align:center;"|7||  497
 * 29  || 2013 || 🇷🇺 Sanan Sjugirov (RUS) 🇮🇳 Parimarjan Negi (IND) 🇮🇱 Maxim Rodshtein (ISR) 🇺🇦 Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR) 🇨🇦 Eric Hansen (CAN) 🇷🇴 Vlad-Cristian Jianu (ROU) 🇧🇾 Alexei Fedorov (BLR) 🇺🇦 Yuri Vovk (UKR) || style="text-align:center;"|7||  564
 * 30  || 2014 || 🇵🇾 Axel Bachmann (PRY) 🇧🇾 Sergei Azarov (BLR)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  604
 * 31  || 2015 || 🇨🇳 Li Chao (CHN) 🇺🇦 Vladimir Onischuk (UKR)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  555
 * 32  || 2016 || 🇺🇸 Gata Kamsky (US)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  538
 * 33 || 2017 ||🇫🇷 Jean-Marc Degraeve (FRA)|| style="text-align:center;"|8||  216
 * 34 || 2018 ||🇫🇷 Christian Bauer (FRA) 🇧🇬 Momchil Nikolov (BGR)|| style="text-align:center;"|8|| 360
 * 35 || 2019 ||🇳🇱 Miguoel Admiraal (NLD) 🇺🇦 Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR) 🇦🇿 Namig Guliyev (AZE) 🇫🇷 Maxime Lagarde (FRA) 🇫🇷 Jules Moussard (FRA)||style="text-align:center;"|7½|| 332
 * style="text-align:center;"| 36
 * 2020
 * 🇫🇷 Jules Moussard (FRA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 8
 * style="text-align:center;"| 332
 * style="text-align:center;"| 37
 * 2021
 * colspan=3 style="text-align:center;"| Cancelled
 * style="text-align:center;"| 38
 * 2022
 * 🇺🇦 Vladislav Bakhmatsky (UKR) 🇮🇳 Nihal Sarin (IND) 🇧🇬 Martin Petrov (BGR) 🇺🇦 Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR) 🇩🇰 Jesper Søndergaard Thybo (DNK) 🇧🇬 Momchil Nikolov (BGR) 🇳🇱 Nico Zwirs (NLD) 🇫🇷 Julien Song (FRA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7
 * style="text-align:center;"| 341
 * style="text-align:center;"| 39
 * 2023
 * 🇮🇳 S. P. Sethuraman (IND) 🇮🇳 Harsha Bharathakoti (IND)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7½
 * style="text-align:center;"| 382
 * style="text-align:center;"| 40
 * 2024
 * 🇮🇳 Abhimanyu Puranik (IND) 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Lodici (ITA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7½
 * style="text-align:center;"| 519
 * }
 * 30  || 2014 || 🇵🇾 Axel Bachmann (PRY) 🇧🇾 Sergei Azarov (BLR)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  604
 * 31  || 2015 || 🇨🇳 Li Chao (CHN) 🇺🇦 Vladimir Onischuk (UKR)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  555
 * 32  || 2016 || 🇺🇸 Gata Kamsky (US)|| style="text-align:center;"|7½||  538
 * 33 || 2017 ||🇫🇷 Jean-Marc Degraeve (FRA)|| style="text-align:center;"|8||  216
 * 34 || 2018 ||🇫🇷 Christian Bauer (FRA) 🇧🇬 Momchil Nikolov (BGR)|| style="text-align:center;"|8|| 360
 * 35 || 2019 ||🇳🇱 Miguoel Admiraal (NLD) 🇺🇦 Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR) 🇦🇿 Namig Guliyev (AZE) 🇫🇷 Maxime Lagarde (FRA) 🇫🇷 Jules Moussard (FRA)||style="text-align:center;"|7½|| 332
 * style="text-align:center;"| 36
 * 2020
 * 🇫🇷 Jules Moussard (FRA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 8
 * style="text-align:center;"| 332
 * style="text-align:center;"| 37
 * 2021
 * colspan=3 style="text-align:center;"| Cancelled
 * style="text-align:center;"| 38
 * 2022
 * 🇺🇦 Vladislav Bakhmatsky (UKR) 🇮🇳 Nihal Sarin (IND) 🇧🇬 Martin Petrov (BGR) 🇺🇦 Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR) 🇩🇰 Jesper Søndergaard Thybo (DNK) 🇧🇬 Momchil Nikolov (BGR) 🇳🇱 Nico Zwirs (NLD) 🇫🇷 Julien Song (FRA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7
 * style="text-align:center;"| 341
 * style="text-align:center;"| 39
 * 2023
 * 🇮🇳 S. P. Sethuraman (IND) 🇮🇳 Harsha Bharathakoti (IND)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7½
 * style="text-align:center;"| 382
 * style="text-align:center;"| 40
 * 2024
 * 🇮🇳 Abhimanyu Puranik (IND) 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Lodici (ITA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7½
 * style="text-align:center;"| 519
 * }
 * 🇮🇳 S. P. Sethuraman (IND) 🇮🇳 Harsha Bharathakoti (IND)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7½
 * style="text-align:center;"| 382
 * style="text-align:center;"| 40
 * 2024
 * 🇮🇳 Abhimanyu Puranik (IND) 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Lodici (ITA)
 * style="text-align:center;"| 7½
 * style="text-align:center;"| 519
 * }
 * }