Davor Palo

Prior to Palo ( born November 2, 1985 in Sarajevo ) is a Danish chess player.

Life

Palo learned chess in 1993 in Sarajevo. He came with his family in December 1993 as a war refugee in Denmark, first to Skanderborg. His first chess tournament he played in 1995. Meanwhile, he lives in Copenhagen.

Chess success

In 2002 he received the title of International Master. He was 19 years old in August 2005, the Grand Master and is the youngest Dane, to whom this ever succeeded. The standards for this purpose, he scored in the Danish retail Championship 2003 in Horsens, where he finished second behind Peter Heine Nielsen, the Gausdal Classics GM tournament in 2004 and at the Festival Jean -Claude Loubatière in Montpellier in 2005, which he won. In 2004 he won the 39th International Junior tournament in Hallberg, 2005, the Master Tournament in Ribe. In the same year he received from the Union Skak Dansk Danish Chess Oscar. After a period of inactivity, he won the national championship in 2013 in Elsinore in Denmark.

For the Danish national team, he participated in three Chess Olympiads (2002 to 2006) and two European Championships team (2005 and 2013) in part. With his nomination in 2002, he was the youngest ever to play for the Danish national team at a Chess Olympiad.

In Denmark he played for SK Aarhus in 1968, and thereafter for the Skanderborg Skakklub. In Germany, he played in the 2nd Bundesliga Nord for the Preetzer TSV and in the Swedish Elitserien in the season 2002/ 03 for the Helsingborgs ASK and 2005/ 06 for Linköpings Allmäna Schacksällskap.

His current Elo rating is 2544 ( as of April 2013) so that it is on the fourth place in the Danish Elo ranking. He had his best ever Elo rating of 2558 from July 2006 to June 2007.