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.Women's Chess Olympiads: Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky. OlimpBase.
She won the Australian Women's Championship in 1998.Australian Women's champions . Australian Chess Federation. In the same year, she also competed in the Asian Women's Championship in the Genting Highlands, Malaysia, scoring 6/11.Asian Women's Chess Championship 1998 final results and standings from Chess Malaysia
Phan-Koshnitsky won the Oceania Women's Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland in April 2001.Oceania Women's 3.2bZonal. Tournament report . FIDE.Crowther, Mark (30 April 2011). TWIC 338: Oceana Zonal 3.2b. The Week in Chess. 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,Rating Calculations - Phan-Koshnitsky, Ngan, FIDE where she played on the Australian Women's team.37th Chess Olympiad 2006 Women - Australia, chess-results.com
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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External links
Ngan Phan Koshnitsky chess games at 365Chess.com