Yannick Pelletier
Number of games in database: 459
Years covered: 1991 to 2008
Current FIDE rating: 2557
Highest rating achieved in database: 2609
Overall record: +117 -115 =222 (50.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      5 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (23)      E97 E91 E94 E85  Queen's Indian (22)      E15 E12 E16 E13 E17  English (21)      A15 A17 A13 A16 A14  Slav (18)      D15 D19 D12 D11 D16  Semi-Slav (15)      D45 D43 D47 D44 D46  Queen's Gambit Declined (14)      D38 D37 D31 D35	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (63)      B48 B90 B47 B23 B22  French Defense (45)      C18 C10 C03 C01 C02  Semi-Slav (23)      D47 D43 D45 D48 D44  Sicilian Taimanov (22)      B48 B47 B46  Nimzo Indian (16)      E32 E46 E56 E20 E58  Sicilian Najdorf (14)      B90 B91 B92 B97 B94

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Carlsen vs Y Pelletier, 2007 0-1
   Y Pelletier vs Carlsen, 2005 1-0
   Y Pelletier vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2007 1-0
   Y Pelletier vs Gelfand, 2001 1/2-1/2

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YANNICK PELLETIER (born Sep-22-1976) Switzerland [what is this?] Yannick Pelletier was born in Biel, Switzerland, on September 22, 1976. A GM since 2000, he is a three-time Swiss Champion (1995, 2000, 2002) and a regular on his country's Olympiad team. He also represents Switzerland annually at the strong Biel Chess Festival, where he has managed wins against Magnus Carlsen, Ruslan Ponomariov and Viktor Korchnoi, among others. His best-ever Elo rating, 2624, was achieved in January 2003. In 2008 he was announced as a participant in FIDE's inaugural Grand Prix cycle, as the nominee of the hosting city of Montreux.

page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 459  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. V Arapovic vs Y Pelletier   1-0 27 1991 Biel MTO op B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 2. Y Pelletier vs Kulaots   0-1 41 1992 Wch U16 E85 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox Variation 3. R Forster vs Y Pelletier   ½-½ 34 1994 Biel C00 French Defense 4. Y Pelletier vs Pinter   0-1 47 1994 Ch France (team) E10 Queen's Pawn Game 5. Vaganian vs Y Pelletier   1-0 48 1994 It (cat.10) A07 King's Indian Attack 6. Y Pelletier vs Chiburdanidze   ½-½ 12 1994 Biel A04 Reti Opening 7. Ftacnik vs Y Pelletier   1-0 29 1995 Neuchatel op D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 8. Razuvaev vs Y Pelletier   1-0 39 1995 Biel MTO op D23 Queen's Gambit Accepted 9. Y Shulman vs Y Pelletier   ½-½ 23 1995 Wch U20 D85 Grunfeld 10. I Rogers vs Y Pelletier   1-0 35 1996 Credis Biel SUI B65 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...Be7 Defense, 9...Nxd4 11. Krasenkow vs Y Pelletier   ½-½ 44 1996 32nd ol Yerevan ARM A30 English, Symmetrical 12. Y Pelletier vs Korchnoi   0-1 52 1996 Rehhag cup Bern SUI E17 Queen's Indian 13. Y Pelletier vs B Ivanovic   ½-½ 45 1996 Yerevan ol (Men) A68 Benoni, Four Pawns Attack 14. Y Pelletier vs Sutovsky   0-1 48 1996 Credis Biel SUI E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 15. V Grabliauskas vs Y Pelletier   0-1 49 1997 EU-chT (Men) D85 Grunfeld 16. I Zaja vs Y Pelletier   ½-½ 39 1997 EU-chT (Men) D85 Grunfeld 17. Anand vs Y Pelletier 1-0 37 1997 Credit Suisse, Biel SUI B63 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack 18. A Anastasian vs Y Pelletier   1-0 33 1997 EU-chT (Men) D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 19. Karpov vs Y Pelletier   1-0 51 1997 06, Credit Suisse, Biel SUI D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 20. Y Pelletier vs O Renet   ½-½ 33 1997 EU-chT (Men) E97 King's Indian 21. Y Pelletier vs Pavasovic   1-0 38 1997 EU-chT (Men) D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted 22. Y Pelletier vs Adams   ½-½ 50 1997 Ch World (team) E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 23. Y Pelletier vs Karpov 0-1 38 1997 01, Credit Suisse, Biel SUI E12 Queen's Indian 24. Y Pelletier vs Van der Wiel   ½-½ 23 1997 EU-chT (Men) A26 English 25. Y Pelletier vs R Mantovani   1-0 65 1997 EU-chT (Men) A75 Benoni, Classical with ...a6 and 10...Bg4  page 1 of 19; games 1-25 of 459    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Pelletier wins | Pelletier loses

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing > Jul-27-05    arifattar: He is 8 days younger than me. Mar-30-06    AlexandraThess: He is hot i would say Mar-30-06    Open Defence: <AlexandraThess> yes a real hottie wow Mar-30-06    AlexandraThess: Does anybody know whether he is married?! Mar-30-06    Appaz: That is very chauvinistic ladies. You should respect Mr. Pelletier for his (medicore GM) chess abilities and not for his looks. (Sorry, somebody has to take the role of intellectual, civilized and asexual, and this time the burden was on me :) Mar-30-06    Open Defence: < Appaz: That is very chauvinistic ladies. You should respect Mr. Pelletier for his (medicore GM) chess abilities and not for his looks. (Sorry, somebody has to take the role of intellectual, civilized and asexual, and this time the burden was on me :)> Appaz you are needed on the Schripchenko page Mar-30-06    Appaz: <Open Defence> The Skripchenko page and other pages of female players was what I had in mind when commenting! I guess you two had those pages in mind too. Mar-30-06    Jim Bartle: Tweet! Tweet! Blatant heightism. Jul-25-06    KingG: By the looks of it, this guy is in for a hard time during the rest of Biel. He's seems to be a bit outclassed. Jul-25-06    suenteus po 147: <KingG> Which is interesting because Pelletier has always been the bottom rated player at Biel but has never placed last. Why is he outclassed <this> year? Jul-25-06    KingG: <suenteus po 147> I don't know. Maybe he's just in bad form. Jul-25-06    tamar: Oldest player this year. Sep-22-06    BIDMONFA: Yannick Pelletier PELLETIER, Yannick http://www.bidmonfa.com/pelletier_y... _ Sep-22-06    suenteus po 147: Happy birthday, Pelletier! Maybe next Biel people won't be so quick to predict you as last place :) Jul-30-07    saad: hi i am back Jul-31-07    Timex: this guy just beat Carlsen!! Aug-01-07    Fictivision: this guy just beat Bu!! Aug-01-07    linux fan: Bu who? Sep-22-07    Zaius: Knock knock. Who's there? Bu. Bu who? You don't have to cry about it. Sep-22-07    King mega: who is Bu? Sep-22-07    pawnofdoom: "Bu" is probably Bu Xiangzhi , a player Pelletier beat in this game : Y Pelletier vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2007 Jul-24-08    Marmot PFL: <KingG: By the looks of it, this guy is in for a hard time during the rest of Biel. He's seems to be a bit outclassed.> Posted 2 years ago, and still true today. Jul-28-08    Udit Narayan: He looks really handsome in this photo: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/... Jul-29-08    messachess: <AlexandraThess> Forget about him. Marry me. I can be hot. (Sit me out in the sun for a few hours and you'll see.) Oh yes, do you ever date older men? I am 24 (hack! Cough! Wheez!)--or there abouts. Aug-01-08    dumbgai: Poor Yannick, a year after finishing only half a point behind first (and with chances to catch the leaders in the last round), he ran into a stone wall this year and only scored 1.5/10. < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing >

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