{{short description|Croatian chess grandmaster (born 1971)}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Mladen Palac | image = Mladen Palac 2013.jpg | caption = Palac in Warsaw, 2013 | country = Yugoslavia → Croatia | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|2|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Donji Mamići, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia | death_date = | death_place = | title = Grandmaster (1993) | peakrating = 2631 (July 2016) |peakranking = No. 65 (July 1999) | FideID = 14500116 }}
'''Mladen Palac''' (born 18 February 1971) is a Croatian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1993.
Palac was born in Donji Mamići, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia). In 1998 he won the Biel Grandmaster Tournament. Palac became the Croatian national champion for the first time in 2001, when he was the highest finishing Croatian player in the Pula Open.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic342.html#6 |title=The Week in Chess 342 |website=theweekinchess.com |access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref> He took the national champion title three more times by winning the Croatian Chess Championship in 2004, 2008 and 2012. In 2005 he was awarded the title of FIDE Trainer. Palac finished third in the European Blitz Championship of 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic589.html#12 |title=The Week in Chess 589 |website=theweekinchess.com |access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref> He finished 16th at the European Individual Chess Championship in 2016 and, being among the top 23, qualified for the FIDE World Cup 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chessdom.com/ernesto-inarkiev-convincing-winner-of-2016-european-chess-championship/ |title=Ernesto Inarkiev convincing winner of 2016 European Chess Championship |date=2016-05-24 |website=Chessdom |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref> Here he lost to Ian Nepomniachtchi in the first round after the tiebreakers and was therefore eliminated from the tournament.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-world-cup-2017-tiebreaks-nail-biting-chess-and-true-sportsmanship |title=FIDE World Cup 2017 tiebreaks: Nail biting chess and true sportsmanship |last=Shah |first=Sagar |date=2017-09-06 |website=Chess News |publisher=ChessBase |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref>
In team competitions, Palac played for Yugoslavia in the Boys' Chess Balkaniad 1989 and for Croatia in the Chess Olympiad, World Team Chess Championship, European Team Chess Championship and Mitropa Cup.<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/ygwo2w6d.html Mladen Palac] team chess record at Olimpbase.org</ref>
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==External links== * {{FIDE}} * {{365Chess.com player|Mladen_Palac}} * {{Chessgames player|19757}} * {{OlimpBase FIDE ratings|Palac,%20Mladen}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Palac, Mladen}} Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Chess Grandmasters Category:Croatian chess players Category:Yugoslav chess players Category:Chess coaches Category:Chess Olympiad competitors Category:Sportspeople from Grude