Mladen Palac
Number of games in database: 404
Years covered: 1989 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2578
Highest rating achieved in database: 2605
Overall record: +131 -57 =212 (59.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      4 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (72)      B42 B90 B57 B30 B76  Ruy Lopez (34)      C88 C67 C99 C78 C96  French Defense (28)      C10 C05 C04 C07 C18  Ruy Lopez, Closed (18)      C88 C99 C96 C92 C94  French Tarrasch (15)      C05 C04 C07 C09 C03  Caro-Kann (14)      B19 B17 B12 B18 B14	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (73)      B90 B22 B67 B91 B50  Queen's Pawn Game (24)      D02 A45 E00 E10 D04  Nimzo Indian (24)      E32 E46 E21 E20 E55  Sicilian Najdorf (24)      B90 B91 B92 B97 B94  Queen's Indian (17)      E15 E12 E14  English, 1 c4 c5 (15)      A34 A30 A32 A33

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page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 404  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Palac vs G Andruet   1-0 51 1989 Cannes op B85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical 2. M Palac vs G Andruet   1-0 40 1989 Chianciano tt B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 3. V Kovacevic vs M Palac   1-0 45 1989 Vinkovci ;CBM 16 D02 Queen's Pawn Game 4. M Palac vs I Stohl   1-0 33 1990 Rimavska Sobota B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 5. M Palac vs Kupreichik   0-1 38 1990 Rimavska Sobota C85 Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred (DERLD) 6. Plachetka vs M Palac   1-0 36 1990 Rimavska Sobota D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 7. M Palac vs W Schmidt   ½-½ 74 1990 Bohemians C09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line 8. M Palac vs J Lechtynsky   0-1 24 1990 Rimavska Sobota B08 Pirc, Classical 9. Emms vs M Palac   0-1 32 1990 Toulouse op B22 Sicilian, Alapin 10. I Rogers vs M Palac   ½-½ 9 1990 Praha D02 Queen's Pawn Game 11. M Palac vs P Haba   ½-½ 16 1990 Bohemians C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 12. Korchnoi vs M Palac 1-0 54 1990 Val Maubuee E51 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 13. A Kovacevic vs M Palac   1-0 25 1990 Pula tt2 B87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5 14. M Palac vs Plachetka   1-0 23 1991 Hartberg op B06 Robatsch 15. Leko vs M Palac   ½-½ 31 1991 Kecskemet B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 16. Plachetka vs M Palac   ½-½ 17 1991 Borovo E00 Queen's Pawn Game 17. Razuvaev vs M Palac   ½-½ 35 1991 Hartberg op E01 Catalan, Closed 18. Savon vs M Palac   0-1 56 1991 Borovo B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 19. Uhlmann vs M Palac   ½-½ 52 1991 Werfen D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 20. Blatny vs M Palac   0-1 44 1991 Kecskemet D02 Queen's Pawn Game 21. Ilincic vs M Palac   ½-½ 12 1991 Borovo (Yugoslavia) C55 Two Knights Defense 22. M Palac vs V Kovacevic   0-1 45 1992 Pula tt B54 Sicilian 23. R Sherbakov vs M Palac   1-0 48 1992 Bled A13 English 24. V Kovacevic vs M Palac   1-0 44 1992 Osijek A45 Queen's Pawn Game 25. Igor Ivanov vs M Palac   ½-½ 12 1992 Forli op D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation  page 1 of 17; games 1-25 of 404

May-06-07    dark dario: this men really understand chess but as i can see he mess up many winning positions maybe he has problem with time trouble Sep-27-09    Tabanus: GM Mladen Palac, Croatia, born 18 February 1971. Current rating 2576, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... GM in 1993. Winner in Biel 1998. Croatia champion 2001, 2004 and 2008. Played in the 1996 (2nd reserve), 2006 (board 2) and 2008 (board 1) olympiads, and in World Team Ch 1997 (board 3). Placed 3rd in European Blitz Ch 2006. Rating peaks 2610 in 1999 and 2605 in 2001. Pictures: http://www.sk-zagreb.hr/Palac.jpg http://static.twoday.net/schachzoo/... Biography: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen... (in Polish)

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