Pelletier Yannick

Chess Grandmaster, commentator, coach

[Pelletier Yannick @PelletierChess]

@johnchess I thought I recognised some faces… until I saw 2 @DanielKingChess 🤔… and the more I look, the more I think there might be none 😝

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@davidllada @clorgie Soviet Union?

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@GMSokolovIvan Let’s say he clearly strived for it with his opening choice… which, funnily enough, lead to a hedgehog structure, as the one he lost in Qatar. I think the new world order would have had more difficulties against 1…e5 🙂

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@PHChess He looks at it from a mathematical point of view, and indeed, chess can theoretically be solved. But does it make it less worthy? Where is the human perspective, the fact that we can fail - and often do fail. In the difficulty lies the thrill, isn’t it?

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@PHChess The problem with Musk is… “One does not speak, unless one knows”. And frankly, he knows almost nothing about chess. He knows a lot about other things, AI probably included, but not about chess.

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@Rameshchess VK used to be Viktor the terrible, and the bus was powerful too 🙂

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@PHChess @SethBurn @ChessProblem Lyon’s mayor ended up in trial and prison not long after… Too bad, he seemed to truly like chess. 🙂

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@GerhardRiewe @FIDE_chess Absolutely, your second point is the one here! Since several rounds of the Swiss league are played in separate venues, the presence of an IA isn’t guaranteed. Hence, no norm possible.
Can’t think of a more stupid rule, tbh.

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A question to @FIDE_chess and its arbiters, resp. rating commission:
Can an event be FIDE rated but not eligible for norms, even though all norm requirements are fulfilled?
Hint, so that the question makes sense at all: this is the case with the Swiss league!

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@GMJacobAagaard @FIDE_chess There are enough foreign players in the Swiss league. In fact perhaps more than Swiss players 😜

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@alexholowczak @FIDE_chess I’m talking about events strong enough. The Swiss league has GMs, and is played over 9 rounds. Yet, not eligible for norms.

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@EmilSutovsky Could there be Lothar Schmid, masked by Gligoric? And Ivkov with closed eyes behind Fischer?

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@TarjeiJS Janis Klovans at around 65 ?!

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@davidllada You must be very tired at the end of your days!

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@TaniaSachdev Bravo! 🥰

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@Eljanov I remember your parents’ warm welcome in 2001. All my sympathy to your mother, hopefully all will be over soon 😥

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@ben_finegold He definitely received external help: he got married during the tournament! 😃

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As usual, I wasn’t planning to take part in the World rapid/blitz championship due to the ridiculous time schedule over Christmas and New Year. However, I reckon that times are difficult. “You know who” may be advised that I’m available on those dates for Elo laundering.

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@PHChess Probably not bad. But wasn’t that 2028 Olympiad supposed to be determined at the 2024 Congress in Budapest?!

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@GMJacobAagaard The way to win with black a few moves earlier isn’t bad either 🙂