Yannick Pelletier

Already with 10 years Pelletier played with at the Swiss team championship. In 1995 he became a Swiss single master. In 1996, he pursued a professional career and participated with the Swiss team at the Chess Olympiad in Yerevan. In 2000 he won for the second time the Swiss single championship. In the same year he met his third Grandmaster norm at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. Then in 2001 the Grandmaster title he was awarded by the World Chess Federation FIDE. 2002 and 2010 he won again the Swiss Championship.

Pelletier also plays in the French league and in the German Chess Bundesliga from 1996 to 1998 in the Second Bundesliga at Schott Mainz, in the 1998/99 season in the First League at SK Zahringen and from 1999 to 2008 in the First Bundesliga for Werder Bremen with which he in the season 2004/ 05 German team champion. In Switzerland, since 2008 he plays for the Zurich Chess Club and was with this in 2008, 2009 and 2010 Swiss team champion. Before Pelletier had played in the SG Biel, with whom he was in 2000, 2001 and 2004 Swiss team champion. In the Group's Swiss Cup Pelletier plays since 2012 for the SC Réti Zurich and was with this in the seasons 2012/13 and 2013/14 Swiss group master. Previously, he played for the team of Valais, with which he 11 Swiss group master was in the seasons 2009 /10 and 2010 /.

In France Pelletier played until 2004 at Club de Mulhouse Philidor, since for the Club de Clichy- Echecs -92, with which it was in 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013 French team champion. In January 2003, he reached his highest ever Elo rating of 2624 His current Elo rating is 2572 (as of March 2014). . This makes it the second best Swiss player Vadim Milov behind and in front of Viktor Korchnoi and is the world ranking of active players on the 258th rank.

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