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Mega games festival including chess organized yearly since 1990 during in Pardubice, Czech Republic. The festival includes 4 Open tournaments which attracted nearly 1500 players in 2004. In 1993 and 1994 two strong Round Robin tournaments were added to the festival which were won by Alon Greenfeld in 1993 and Evgeny Bareev in 1994.

The winners were:

1990 Jan Votava, 1991 Virginijus Dambrauskas  and Jan Votova, 1992 Evgeny Glejzerov, 1993 Hracek, 1994 Mikhail Krasenkov, Sergey Kiselev, 1995 Sergei Movsesian, 1996 Evgenij Najer, 1997 Kontentin Sakaev, 1998 Milan Zurek, 1999 Valery Neverov, 2000 Mikhail Gurevich, 2001 Mathias Womacka, 2002 Vladislav Borovikov, 2003 Vlastimil Babula 2004 Serguey Grigoriants , 2005 Anton Kovalev. 2006 Stanislav Novikov, 2007 Vlastimil Babula, 2008 Eldar Gasanov, 2009 Anton Korobov, 2010 Anton Korobov, 2011 Dmitry Kononenko.

The winners of grandmaster tournament Pardubice Open 2009- GM Anton Korobov, GM Martyn Kravtsiv and GM Viktor Laznicka together with the president of European Chess Union (ECU) Boris Kutin (the second from the right).