Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky

Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky
Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky in Vietnam in February 2007
Country	Australia
Born	24 February 1974[1]
Title	Woman International Master (WIM) (2001)
FIDE rating	2168 (Jan 2013)
Peak rating	2183 (Jan 2003)

Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky (born Phan Huỳnh Băng Ngân, 24 February 1974 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-Australian chess Woman International Master (WIM).^[2] She is now known as Ngan Nadalin.

Chess career

Phan-Koshnitsky represented Vietnam in two Chess Olympiads in 1990 and 1992, and represented Australia in five Chess Olympiads between 1996 and 2006.^[3] Her best result was in 2006 when she scored 7/10 and finished in 10th place for her individual board.^[3]

Phan-Koshnitsky won the Australian Women's Chess Championship in 1998.^[4] She also competed in the 1998 Asian Women's Chess Championship in the Genting Highlands, Malaysia, scoring 6/11.^[5]

After the 1998 South Australia chess championship match, her opponent Robert Cowley claimed he lost (4-2) to Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky because he was too distracted by her cleavage.^[6][7]

Phan-Koshnitsky won the Oceania Women's Chess Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland in April 2001, with a score of 7/12.^[8][9] She went on to compete in the knock-out format Women's World Chess Championship 2001 in Moscow, Russia where she was eliminated in round 1 by Almira Skripchenko.^[1][10]

Phan-Koshnitsky gained the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title in 1995 and the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 2001.^[2]

Personal life

In the early 1990s, she married Peter Koshnitsky, son of former Australian chess champion Gary Koshnitsky. She remarried in 2007 and is now Ngan Nadalin.

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