GMMladen Palac

Mladen Palac was born in Donji Mamići in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1971 and became a grandmaster in 1993. He won the Biel open in 1998. He took the Croatian championship title in 2001 as the highest-finishing Croatian at the Pula Open and won the title again in 2004, 2008 and 2012. He became a FIDE trainer in 2005. In 2006 he won bronze at the European blitz championship. He competed in the 2017 World Cup, where Ian Nepomniachtchi eliminated him after a first-round tiebreak.