Laura Moylan

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Laura Moylan
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Laura Moylan at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany 2008.
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born1983 (age 3940)
Title Woman International Master (2000)
FIDE   rating 2108 (January 2009)
Peak rating 2127 (April 2006)

Laura Moylan (born 1983) is an Australian chess Woman International Master (WIM). [1]

Moylan represented Australia in the World Youth Chess Championship (Girls) each year from 1994 to 1999. [2]

In 1995, aged 12, Moylan finished third in the Australian Under-18 Junior Girls Chess Championship. The following year she won the 1996 Australian Junior Girls Chess Championship. [3] In 1999, she came second in the Australian Under-18 Junior Chess Championship (Open), held in Hervey Bay, behind David Smerdon. [4]

Moylan gained the Woman International Master title after winning the 1999 Oceania Women's Zonal Chess Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland. [5] She finished 3rd in the 2002 Oceania Women's Zonal Chess Championship. [6]

Moylan has represented Australia at four Chess Olympiads in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2008. [7] In her 2000 Chess Olympiad debut, she scored 8/9, with a performance rating of 2416, and won the individual silver medal for her performance on the reserve board. [8]

Moylan is a director of the "Sydney Academy of Chess" a chess coaching business in Sydney.

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References

  1. Laura Moylan FIDE Player Profile www.fide.com
  2. OzBase, The Australian Chess Games Archive
  3. Australian Girls Champions Archived 19 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine Australian Chess Federation
  4. 1999 Australian Junior Championships report David Cordover, Chess Kids, 7 Mar 1999
  5. Zone 3.2b Oceanic Zonal Report Archived 2 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Week in Chess 233, 26 April 1999
  6. 2002 Oceania Women's Zonal Championship FIDE Tournament Report
  7. Laura Moylan Chess Olympiad record, www.olimpbase.org
  8. 34th Chess Olympiad (women), Istanbul 2000 Individual Medals, www.olimpbase.org