38th Biel Chess Festival Tournament, Yannick Pelletier v Hikaru Nakamura (Score Sheet)

Author: Yannick Pelletier (1976- ) signed by Nakamura and Yannick PelletierYear: 2005Publisher: Biel International Chess CommitteePlace: BielDescription:One page sheet (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") in Yannick Pelletier's hand of round nine between him and Hikaru Nakamura winning with white in 30 moves and signed on the front by both players and the judge.The traditional International Chess Festival is took place from 17th-29th July 2005 in Biel/Bienne, in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. The main event featured six strong Grand Masters in a double round robin with a category of 16 (average Elo 2637). The contestants were Andrei Volokitin, Boris Gelfand, Yannick Pelletier, Christian Bauer, Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen. After seven rounds the US champion Hikaru Nakamura was in the lead, with 4.5 points, half a point more than Volokitin, Gelfand and Pelletier. Then disaster struck for this very talented and very determined young player. Hikaru lost his last three games, to Bauer, Pelletier an