The North Sea Cup was an open

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tournament played in

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from 1976 to 2008. Until 2003 there was an amateur section (a Swiss system tournament) and a 10-player round-robin tournament for titled players. The exceptions are 1986 and 1987. In 1986 the titled section was the play off for the

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. In 1987 the titled section was replaced by the Danish Juniors' Championship. From 2004 the tournament has only one division, a nine- or ten-round Swiss system. The North Sea Cup was not played in 2009.

Winners

References

Homepage of the North Sea Cup

External links

* ''Chessbase News'' (22 July 2003).
18th North Sea Cup – Esbjerge, Denmark. July 4-12
* Weeks, Mark (17 August 2006). ''The Week in Chess 610''

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