Before that, Palo

Davor Palo, Warsaw 2013
Association	Denmark
Born	November 2, 1985 Sarajevo
title	International Master (2002) Grand Master (2005)
Current  Elo rating	2556 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2562 (April to August 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

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

Life

Palo learned chess in Sarajevo in 1993. He and his family came to Denmark as a war refugee in December 1993 , first to Allerød Kommune , then to Ry and Skanderborg . He now lives in Budapest . He played his first chess tournament in 1995.

Chess successes

In 2002 he received the title of International Master . At the age of 19, he became the grandmaster in August 2005 , making him the youngest Dane to ever succeed. He achieved the standards for this at the Danish Individual Championship 2003 in Horsens , where he finished second behind Peter Heine Nielsen , at the Gausdal Classics GM tournament in 2004 and at the Jean-Claude Loubatière Festival in Montpellier in 2005, which he won. In 2004 he won the 39th International Youth Festival in Hallberg , 2005, the Master Tournament in Ribe . In the same year he received the Danish Schachoskar from the Dansk Skak Union . After a period of inactivity, he won the Danish individual championship in Helsingør in 2013 .

For the Danish national team he took part in four chess Olympiads ( 2002 , 2004 , 2006 and 2014 ) and two European team championships (2005 and 2013). When he was nominated in 2002, he was the youngest ever to play for the Danish national team at a Chess Olympiad.

Until 1999 he was a member of the Ry Skakklub . In the same year he joined the "Skolernes Skakklub", to which he belonged for the next six years. Since 2012 he has been playing for Skanderborg Skakklub ( Team Nordea Skb until 2014 ), with whom he was Danish team champion in 2013 and 2015 . In Germany he played in the 2. Bundesliga North for Preetzer TSV and in the Swedish Elitserien in the 2002/03 season for Helsingborgs ASK and in 2005/06 for Linköpings Allmäna Schacksällskap . He played at the European Club Cup in 2002 for SK 1968 Århus .

In May 2015, he was fourth in the Danish Elo ranking.

Web links

• Blog Davor Palos (Danish)
• Replayable chess games by Davor Palo on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
2. ↑ Before Palo's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Before Palos results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ List of participants in the Danish Chess Championships 1999 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on skak-dm.dk (Danish) 
5. ↑ Before Palos results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)