IMLaura Unuk

Laura Unuk was born in Ljubljana in 1999. She won Slovenian girls' titles in successive age groups and became senior women's champion in 2013. In 2014 she won the world girls' under-sixteen championship in Durban. That result brought the woman international master title. The same year she won both team and individual gold at the European Girls' Under-Eighteen Team Championship. She earned a second world youth title in 2017, winning the under-eighteen section by one and a half points. Her national-team career included moving from board four at the 2014 Olympiad to first board in 2016 and 2018. She became a woman grandmaster in 2019 and an international master in 2021. After attending the sports department of Bežigrad Grammar School, she began studying biochemistry at the University of Ljubljana. With teammates Teja Vidic and Lara Janželj, she also hosted the Checkitas chess channel on Twitch.