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Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky in Vietnam in February 2007
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| Country | Australia |
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| Born | 24 February 1974 |
| Title | Woman International Master (WIM) (2001) |
| 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). She is now known as Ngan Nadalin.
Phan-Koshnitsky represented Vietnam in two Chess Olympiads in 1990 and 1992, and represented Australia in five Chess Olympiads between 1996 and 2006. Her best result was in 2006 when she scored 7/10 and finished in 10th place for her individual board.
Phan-Koshnitsky won the Australian Women's Chess Championship in 1998. She also competed in the 1998 Asian Women's Chess Championship in the Genting Highlands, Malaysia, scoring 6/11.
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.
Phan-Koshnitsky won the Oceania Women's Chess Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland in April 2001, with a score of 7/12. 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.
Phan-Koshnitsky gained the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title in 1995 and the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 2001.
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.