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Florin Felecan
Born on April 7,1980, Florin Felecan began playing chess at age 8. Trained by his father, he entered his first tournament in 1989. From 1992 to 1994, he competed in the French Junior Championships at Bagneux and Capelle la Grande, and tied for first place at the European Junior Championships at Baile Herculane. In 1994, he earned the FIDE rank of Chess Master. Later, Florin won four first-place and three second-place prizes in the Romanian Junior National Championship, and in 1997 he became the Romanian Junior Champion. In 1996, Felecan's Romanian Golden Team won the Youth Olympiad. The next year, he and his family moved to the United States. He became National High School Chess Champion in 1998 and attended the University of Maryland, where he studied computer science and chess. Rated 2535 USCF and 2380 FIDE, Florin easily won Hawaii's Denker Tournament and the Intercollegiate Pan-American Championships in Dallas. This year, Felecan is increasingly involved in speed chess tournaments. We are very pleased to have him as a Chess Analyst. Art Fazakas, writer for the event, asked Florin a few questions about his life in chess. AF: Florin, do you play chess on the Internet Gaming Zone? FF: Yes, I do - but I found that the other cool games present on the Gaming Zone are too tempting for me. AF: Who are your favorite chess authors? FF: Kasparov and Karpov. AF: What do you think of Kasparov's strategy in general? FF: Garry is very tactical but he doesn't dislike a positional game. Overall he's very incisive and accurate in his play. AF: Do you think anyone can beat Kasparov? FF: Of course, he's the World Champion but he's still human. Players like Topalov, Adams, and Anand have a good chance of beating him. A very promising player is Peter Leko with a FIDE rating near 2700. AF: Do you think YOU might be World Champion one day? FF: Yes, I could possibly become the World Champion, but with so many young chess players, only the future will tell. AF: How do you like the life of a chess Grandmaster? FF: As the highest title in the chess hierarchy, the Grandmaster title gives you the feeling of being able to defeat any player in the world. AF: Do you like speed chess? Do you enter rapid chess tournaments? FF: Yes, I like speed chess and I'm entering speed chess tournaments as often as I can. --Art Fazakas
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