Laura Moylan (born 1983) is an Australian chess Woman International Master (WIM).Laura Moylan FIDE Player Profile www.fide.com
Moylan represented Australia in the World Youth Chess Championship (Girls) each year from 1994 to 1999.OzBase, The Australian Chess Games Archive
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.Australian Girls Champions Australian Chess Federation In 1999, she came second in the Australian Under-18 Junior Chess Championship (Open), held in Hervey Bay, behind David Smerdon.1999 Australian Junior Championships report David Cordover, Chess Kids, 7 March 1999
Moylan gained the Woman International Master title after winning the 1999 Oceania Women's Zonal Chess Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland.Zone 3.2b Oceanic Zonal Report The Week in Chess 233, 26 April 1999 She finished 3rd in the 2002 Oceania Women's Zonal Chess Championship.2002 Oceania Women's Zonal Championship FIDE Tournament Report
Moylan has represented Australia at four Chess Olympiads in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2008.Laura Moylan Chess Olympiad record, www.olimpbase.org 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.34th Chess Olympiad (women), Istanbul 2000 Individual Medals, www.olimpbase.org
Moylan is a director of the "Sydney Academy of Chess" a chess coaching business in Sydney.
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Sydney Academy of Chess