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Round Robin: 2001 (SO-ON) Sipke Ernst,
2002 (Harmonie) Friso Nijboer,
2003 (Harmonie) Friso Nijboer,
2004 (Harmonie) Yuriy Kuzubov (four of ten players with 6/9 joint winners, Kuzubov
declared winner on tie-break, above Njiboer, Van der Wiel, IM Yge Visser (GM norm)
2005 (Harmonie) Sipke Ernst,
2006 (Harmonie) Sipke Ernst
Open: 2007 Dimitri Mastrovasilis (Harmonie Open A on tie-break, above Stelios
Halkias, Sipke Ernst, Ahmed Adly, IM Davit Lobzhanidze),
2008 Merab Gagunashvili (on tie-break above Robin Swinkels, Arkadij Rotstein),
2009 Illya Nyzhnyk (clear first),
2010 Dejan Bojkov (on tie-break, above Illya Nyzhnyk, Mark Bluvshtein, Daan
Brandenburg, Sipke Ernst, Robin Van Kampen),
2011 Alexander Kovchan (on tie-break above Robert Hess),
2012 (50th edition) Zaven Andriasian (on tie-break above Alexander Kovchan, Sipke
Sipke),
2013 Zaven Andriasian (on tie-break above Erwin L’Ami, Banjamin Bok, Sipke Ernst),
2014 N.N.
* In 1976 / 1977 the tournament was combined with the World Junior Chess Championship.
The American Mark Diesen won the event, but Ľubomír Ftáčnik finished second and first European.
Groningen, Netherlands, 1946 (Staunton Memorial, the first strong post-WWII tournament),
1988 – 1998 Grandmaster Invitation Tournaments, including
1993 PCA World Championship Qualification, Open. International Tournaments in the 1990s.
1997 FIDE knock-out world championship (de-facto qualification to determine a challenger)
Schaakstad Groningen Groningen Schaakfestival, 52th edition in 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Junior_Chess_Championship
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79918 (Groningen 1946)
http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/rot1997w.htm (Groningen 1997 / Lausanne 1998)
http://www.chess-international.de/Archive/22097 (in german language)
Record winners at Groningen (main tournaments incl. 1946, without exhibition
matches): International Invitation GM Tournament: Ian Rogers (3x 1988-90), Jereon Piket (3x
1990-92); Open / GM / IM Tournament: Sipke Ernst (7x winner or co-winner, including 3x
round robin)
Other winners (selection): Botvinnik, Smyslov, Karpov, Anand, Short, Nunn, Adams, Diesen,
Hübner, Ivanchuk, Khalifman, Vaganian, Ehlvest, Salov, Hellers, Almasi, Adorjan, Sax, Ribli,
Ree, Hartoch, Tiviakov, Van der Wiel, Nijboer, L’Ami, Van Kampen, Bok, Zuidema.
Further prominent players at Groningen: Euwe, Korchnoi, Tartakower, Vidmar, Flohr, Szabó,
Denker, Najdorf, Guimard, Boleslavsky, Kotov, O'Kelly de Galway Beliavsky, Jussupopw,
Shirov, Svidler, Gelfand, Dreev, Gulko, Kamsky, Akopian, Georgiev, Leko, Lautier, Miles, I.
Sokolov, Van Wely, and Jan Timman
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