Florin Felecan

Who is Florin Felecan?

Florin Felecan is a chess International Master. Born in Romania, he resides in Evanston, Illinois, having moved there on July 17, 1997, along with his family.

Felecan s a former junior national champion of Romania. In 1994, he tied for first in the junior European Championships. Felecan won the 1998 National Denker Tournament of High School Champions in Hawaii with an undefeated 7-0 record.

He served as one of four advisors on the World team in the Kasparov versus The World chess match in 1999.

Felecan attended University of Maryland - Baltimore County on a chess scholarship but shortly left after he began his studies. 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. 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 and GM Marc Arnold.