Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky
Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky in Vietnam in February 2007 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 February 1974 Vietnam |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Vietnam Australia |
| Title | Woman International Master (2001) |
| FIDE rating | 2168 (July 2006) |
| Peak rating | 2183 (January 2003) |
Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky (born Phan Huỳnh Băng Ngân; 24 February 1974), is a Vietnamese-Australian chess player. She holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM), and won the 1998 Australian Women's Chess Championship. Since 2007 she has been known as Ngan Nadalin.
Chess career
Phan-Koshnitsky represented Vietnam in two Women's Chess Olympiads, in 1990 and 1992, and Australia in five Olympiads between 1996 and 2006.[1]
She won the Australian Women's Championship in 1998.[2] In the same year, she also competed in the Asian Women's Championship in the Genting Highlands, Malaysia, scoring 6/11.[3]
Phan-Koshnitsky won the Oceania Women's Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland in April 2001.[4][5] She went on to compete in the Women's World Chess Championship 2001 in Moscow, Russia, where she was eliminated in round 1 by Almira Skripchenko.
Phan-Koshnitsky was awarded by FIDE the titles of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 1995 and Woman International Master (WIM) in 2001.
As of 2026, her last FIDE-rated event was the 2006 Chess Olympiad,[6] where she played on the Australian Women's team.[7]
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.
References
- ^ Women's Chess Olympiads: Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky. OlimpBase.
- ^ Australian Women's champions Archived 13 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Australian Chess Federation.
- ^ Asian Women's Chess Championship 1998 final results and standings from Chess Malaysia
- ^ Oceania Women's 3.2bZonal. Tournament report Archived 13 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine. FIDE.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (30 April 2011). TWIC 338: Oceana Zonal 3.2b. The Week in Chess.
- ^ Rating Calculations - Phan-Koshnitsky, Ngan, FIDE
- ^ 37th Chess Olympiad 2006 Women - Australia, chess-results.com
External links
- Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky rating card at FIDE
- Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Ngan Phan Koshnitsky chess games at 365Chess.com