Laura Moylan

Laura Moylan ( born February 27, 1983 in Canberra) is an Australian chess player.

Life

Laura Moylan is originally from Canberra, where she attended the College in the suburb of Melba Copland, but now lives in Sydney. My chess teacher was Geoffrey T. Butler. She herself teaches chess at the Sydney Academy of Chess and supervises the affiliated clubs Beecroft Junior Chess Club and Hornsby Junior Chess Club. In the New South Wales Chess Association she holds the post of Press Officer.

Achievements

In 1995, she took a tie for third at twelve at the Australian U18 Championship of female youth in Canberra. The championship they won a year later. In the open Australian U18 Championship 1999 in Hervey Bay, she was behind David Smerdon second. In April 1999, she won the oceanic zone Tournament Women, held in Gold Coast. In the oceanic zone tournament ( female) 2002 Sigatoka on Viti Levu she took a tie for third. In March 2003, she won in Sydney at an invitational tournament at the University of New South Wales behind George Wendi Xie second place. In February 2006, she won second place in the championship city of Sydney.

With the Australian women's national team, she participated in four Chess Olympiads: 2000, 2002 or on the first reserve board in 2006 and 2008 on the second on the third board. Your successful appearance at a Chess Olympiad in Istanbul they had in 2000. With 8 points from 9 games they won an individual silver medal.

Laura Moylan carries the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) since they won the Zone Tournament 1999 you would be in fourth place in the Australian Elo ranking of women (as of May 2012). , But is managed as inactive because they have been the Chess Olympiad In 2008, played no Elo -evaluated lot more.