Cappelle-la-Grande Open
The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.
It has become over the years one of the strongest opens in the world, after the Aeroflot Open of Moscow. The 26th edition of 2010 had 652 participants, with 82 Grandmasters and 61 International Masters from 57 countries.
The tournament 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.
List of winners
- Note: with multiple first-place finishers, the winner on the Buchholz tie-break is listed first.
# Year Winner(s) Points Players 1 1985 
Waldemar Hanasz (Poland) 6.5 68 2 1986 
Sergey Smagin (Soviet Union)
Viacheslav Eingorn (Soviet Union)
Joseph Gallagher (England)6 106 3 1987 Anthony Kosten (England)
Jonny Hector (Sweden) 7 115 4 1988 Vladimir Okhotnik (Soviet Union) 7.5 138 5 1989 Nukhim Rashkovsky (Soviet Union)
Mark Hebden (England) 7 137 6 1990 Nukhim Rashkovsky (Soviet Union)
Mark Hebden (England) 7.5 201 7 1991 Anatoly Vaisser (Soviet Union)
Matthew Sadler (England)8 289 8 1992 Julian Hodgson (England) 8 308 9 1993 
Evgeniy Solozhenkin (Russia) 7.5 416 10 1994 Vladimir Chuchelov (Russia)
Tony Miles (England)
Gennadi Kuzmin (Ukraine)
Mark Hebden (England) 7 401 11 1995 Tony Miles (England)
Mark Hebden (England)
Evgeny Sveshnikov (Russia) 7 572 12 1996 
Alexander Nenashev (Uzbekistan) 7.5 509 13 1997 Vladimir Burmakin (Russia)
Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine)
Ľubomír Ftáčnik (Slovakia)
Jean-Marc Degraeve (France)
Alexey Vyzmanavin (Russia)
Tony Miles (England)
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan)
Yuri Kruppa (Ukraine)
Mark Hebden (England)
Darius Ruzele (Lithuania) 7 504 14 1998 Igor Glek (Russia)7.5 637 15 1999 
Simen Agdestein (Norway)
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Mikhail Gurevich (Belgium)
Pavel Tregubov (Russia) 7.5 615 16 2000 Yuri Kruppa (Ukraine)
Gilberto Milos (Brazil) 7.5 643 17 2001 Vladimir Chuchelov (Belgium)
Einar Gausel (Norway) 7.5 702 18 2002 Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania) 7.5 677 19 2003 Vladimir Burmakin (Russia)
Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania)
Philipp Schlosser (Germany)
Alexander Areshchenko (Ukraine)
Jakov Geller (Russia)
Dmitry Bocharov (Russia)
Evgeny Miroshnichenko (Ukraine) 7 606 20 2004 Evgeny Najer (Russia)
Kaido Külaots (Estonia)
Artyom Timofeev (Russia)
Zoltan Gyimesi (Hungary)
Sergei Grigoriants (Russia)
Oleg Korneev (Russia) 7 576 21 2005 
David Shengelia (Georgia)
Michail Brodsky (Ukraine) 7.5 589 22 2006 Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine) 7.5 624 23 2007 
Wang Yue (China)
Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan)
David Arutinian (Georgia)
Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine)
Vasily Yemelin (Russia) 7 608 24 2008 Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan)
David Arutinian (Georgia)
Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine)
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukraine)
Konstantin Chernyshov (Russia)
Andrei Deviatkin (Russia)
Vasilios Kotronias (Greece)
Erwin L'Ami (Netherlands) 7 612 25 2009 Yuri Vovk (Ukraine)7.5 610 26 2010 Yaroslav Zherebukh (Ukraine)7.5 652 27 2011 Grzegorz Gajewski (Poland)7.5 573 28 2012 
Pentala Harikrishna (India)7 497