Duško Pavasovič (born October 15, 1976) is a Slovenian chess player

Chess

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 and Grandmaster.

Pavasovič was born in Split

Split (city)

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, Croatia

Croatia

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, but later took Slovenian citizenship. He became a FIDE

Fédération Internationale des Échecs

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 grandmaster in 1999. On the April 2007 FIDE rating list he has an Elo

Elo rating system

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 rating of 2567, making him Slovenia's second highest-rated player after Alexander Beliavsky

Alexander Beliavsky

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. Pavasovič won the 2007 Vidmar Memorial

Vidmar Memorial

The Milan Vidmar Memorial is a chess tournament commemoratingMilan Vidmar , a leading Slovenian grandmaster.The first Vidmar Memorial was held in 2–20 June 1969 in Ljubljana. In subsequent years the tournament has been held in several different Slovenian cities.-Winners:...

 in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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Notable Results

• 2nd place in the Slovenian Championship
  Slovenian Chess Championship
  The Slovenian Chess Championship is the national chess championship held in Slovenia. The championship has been played since the 1950s, first as a regional championship in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and after the independence of Slovenia as a national championship...
  
   in 1998.
• 1st place in the Slovenian Championship in 1999.
• 2nd place in the Slovenian Championship in 2003.
• 4th place in the European Individual Chess Championship in 2007 with the tournament's highest performance rating of 2765.

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