Education
Felecan attended University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC) on a chess scholarship but shortly left after he began his studies.
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Florin Felecan
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Born in Romania, he resides in Evanston, Illinois, having moved there on July 17, 1997, along with his family. In 1994, he tied for first in the junior European Championships. He served as one of four advisors on the World team in the Kasparov versus The World chess match in 1999.
He intermittently played chess from 2000 through 2002 and then completely stopped playing until May 2006 playing in 3 tournaments.
Felecan began actively seeking his International Master title after being contacted by organizer Sevan Muradian. Felecan captured his three required title norms between April 2009 and July 2009.
IM Felecan worked in a non-chess related occupation until 2011 when he actively became a full-time chess coach for youth and adult players. He is one of the most active coaches on the Chicago North Shore.
On the March 2013 FIDE list his Elo rating was 2375.
Achievements
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Felecan s a former junior national champion of Romania. Felecan won the 1998 National Denker Tournament of High School Champions in Hawaii with an undefeated 7-0 record. He became the third person to earn all three required title norms at the North American FIDE Invitational series organized by Sevan Muradian, behind IM Mehmed Pasalic (the first person to achieve this) and General Motors Marc Arnold (the second person to achieve this for his IM title).
