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Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky
N Phan-Koshnitsky 
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons  

Number of games in database: 54
Years covered: 1987 to 2006
Last FIDE rating: 2168
Highest rating achieved in database: 2182
Overall record: +23 -18 =13 (54.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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NGAN PHAN-KOSHNITSKY
(born Feb-24-1974, 51 years old) Vietnam (federation/nationality Australia)

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Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky is a WIM. 1998 South Australia State Champion. 1998 Australian Women's Champion.

Wikipedia article: Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky

Last updated: 2023-07-01 20:05:46

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 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 54  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs G Bekker  1-0381987Australian Open 1986/87A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
2. M Klinova vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0621992Manila Olympiad (Women)C53 Giuoco Piano
3. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs L Sandler  0-1391994Australian MastersA30 English, Symmetrical
4. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs D J Hacche  0-1561994Australian MastersA21 English
5. G Choong vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0421994Australian MastersC78 Ruy Lopez
6. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs G West  1-0331994Australian MastersA04 Reti Opening
7. M Roeder vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0411994Australian MastersE98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1
8. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs S Lukey  1-0321994Australian MastersE81 King's Indian, Samisch
9. M L Chapman vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0441994Australian MastersC30 King's Gambit Declined
10. W Jordan vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0461994Australian MastersC55 Two Knights Defense
11. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs I Kagan  ½-½591994Australian MastersA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
12. N Kagan vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0351994Australian MastersE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
13. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs N Kagan  0-1211994Australian MastersA80 Dutch
14. R Baumgartner vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  0-1311994Australian Open 1994/95B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
15. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs H Suryadinata  1-0221994Australian Open 1994/95A04 Reti Opening
16. R Lilly vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  0-1251995Australian Open 1994/95E77 King's Indian
17. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs D Dinh  ½-½141995Australian Open 1994/95A40 Queen's Pawn Game
18. S Low vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  ½-½521995Australian Open 1994/95C24 Bishop's Opening
19. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs A Wohl  0-1511995Australian Open 1994/95A48 King's Indian
20. E Teh vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0401995Australian Open 1994/95C55 Two Knights Defense
21. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs R A Shaw  1-0331995Australian Open 1994/95A85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3
22. R Maris vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0551995Australian Open 1994/95E86 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.Nge2 c6
23. N Phan-Koshnitsky vs A Van Rooy  1-0231995Australian Open 1994/95A31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
24. J Leroux vs N Phan-Koshnitsky 0-1421995Noumea OpenC55 Two Knights Defense
25. D K Johansen vs N Phan-Koshnitsky  1-0501995Noumea OpenE73 King's Indian
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-20-05  fenno: There is an interesting note in this player's history. ->

Robert Crowley (sic) claims he may have won his third State chess championship if his opponent's breasts had not got in the way. Mr. Crowley, 50, claims he was unable to keep his eyes off Ngan Koshnitsky's cleavage. Part-way through the six-round South Australian state contest he complained to organizers about the 24-year-old reigning Australian women's champion's penchant for revealing tops.

Miss Koshnitsky beat Mr. Crowley 4-2 in last month's competition. She said yesterday that unlike most of her chess-playing counterparts she liked wearing sexy clothes, but said "it shouldn't be an issue at all". His complaint against her manner of dress was nothing more than a stupid excuse for losing. "It makes me angry that he didn't think I was good enough to win," she said. "I believe that most men can't accept losing a game against a woman."

- What do you think?

Apr-20-05  PivotalAnorak: <fenno> u got a picture ?
Apr-20-05  Karpova: Here is a picture of her (no pornographic content):
http://www.ishipress.com/breasts.htm

I think it's just a bad excuse.

Apr-21-05  TheSlid: <I think it's just a bad excuse> Even worse is the background music on the above link. It is truly terrible. : )
Apr-21-05  Karpova: crowley is obviously exaggerating and thereby makes a fool of himself.
Apr-21-05  PivotalAnorak: <theslid> LOL ! So true !
Apr-21-05  Karpova: is there anything notable about her except from her cleavage?
Apr-21-05  fenno: Let me continue on previous issue a while. :)

The article <Karpova> links calls the man Cowley.

My opinion is that Cow-/Crowley most probably did not lie that he experienced problems he described during the match, because he should have known that he was to be ridiculed about his 'confession'. I do not know if or how much he exaggerated his difficulties, though. In any case, he should have complained to his opponent during the match and not only after he lost the match (but he was a coward). A gentleman would not behave like he did.

Apr-22-05  Karpova: I think that only a man who has several problems could get distracted by his female opponent's clothing in such a way as described by Mr C(r)owley.

Chessplayers do better if they watch the chessboard instead of their (female) opponent. That's what chess is about.

Jun-22-05  Benzol: Looks like she might be the daughter-in-law of Gregory Koshnitsky.
Jun-22-05  Runemaster: The surname of the man in question is Cowley - a master from South Australia. I'm not sure, but Ngan might be the grand-daughter of Gary (Gregory) Koshmitsky.
Jan-05-08  AlbertoDominguez: She is really small ... the first time he sits down across the table from a gal who's really stacked he'll have a seizure!

http://www.correspondencechess.com/...

Jan-05-08  Jim Bartle: Aren't you supposed to be looking at the board? Then again, maybe he used that method I've seen in Tal photos, with the eyes down at the level of the board...
Feb-18-09  Marmot PFL: I had a woman try that with me once, so I told her to save it for after the game (which she said "wasn't very nice"). She wore the same dress for a simul with Browne and he just laughed at her.
Mar-14-11  wordfunph: <fenno: There is an interesting note in this player's history. Robert Crowley (sic) claims he may have won his third State chess championship if his opponent's breasts had not got in the way.>

2nd case..

i read that Australian IM Mark Chapman once protested his losing title match against Australian WIM Ngan Koshnitsky. He claimed he lost because his attention always drifted from the board to the plunging neckline of his opponent.

this may be the attacking style of WIM Koshnitsky - Plunging Neckline Attack.. :)

Mar-20-11  BLarsen1967: <AlbertoDominguez> We can only pray that man will never play against Elina Danielian - they would have to carry him away !
Mar-23-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: There once was a lass named Ngan,

who won the state championship from a man.

He said in distress,

<'twas because of her breasts,

though I don't know if that was her plan.>

May-02-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <BLarsen1967: <AlbertoDominguez> We can only pray that man will never play against Elina Danielian - they would have to carry him away !>

The man's task would be insuperable indeed.

Jul-01-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Melbourne Herald Sun
1 April 1998

Robert Cowley claims he would have won a state chess championship - if his opponent's breasts had not got in the way.

Mr. Cowley, 50, claims he was unable to keep his eyes off Ngan Koshnitsky's cleavage. Part-way through the six-round South Australian state contest he complained to organizers about the 24-year-old reigning Australian women's champion's penchant for revealing tops.

The bare flesh - plus the fact that she played "very well" - had cost him the title and prevented him from concentrating on the game, he claimed yesterday. Miss Koshnitsky beat Mr. Cowley 4-2 in last month's competition.

She said yesterday that unlike most of her chess-playing counterparts she liked wearing sexy clothes, but said "it shouldn't be an issue at all".

His complaint against her manner of dress was nothing more than a stupid excuse for losing. "It makes me angry that he didn't think I was good enough to win," she said. "I believe that most men can't accept losing a game against a woman."

Mr. Cowley, the 1978 and 1992 SA chess champion, said Miss Koshnitsky's clothes were more suited to a disco than a chess game. He had tried to avert his eyes "but it was very hard not to see it (her cleavage)".

I put my hands across my forehead but that didn't work very well, so now I may consider wearing a wide-brimmed hat," he said. The skimpy top was "a real distraction for me," he said, adding chess was "difficult enough as it is without extra problems".

Mr. Cowley, who plays for "mental exercise, social interaction, discipline and prestige", said he liked "to be able to think of the game and not be distracted by other things".

But he would not say whether he thought Miss Koshnitsky's mode of dress was a deliberate move.

Under the laws of chess, it is forbidden to distract or annoy one's opponent.

Miss Koshnitsky said she had no intention to make Mr. Cowley uncomfortable. She dressed the way she did "because I'm young, I want to wear nice clothes and be happy - and that's it". She accused him of making a cheap excuse for losing to a woman.

Miss Koshnitsky, a professional chess player who migrated to Australia four years ago, flies to Malaysia next week to contest the Asian women's championship.

The vice-president of the SA Chess Association, Evelyn Koshnitsky, 82, said her former daughter-in-law won the title of state champion on her own merits.

It was Mr. Cowley's problem and not Miss Koshnitsky's if he was distracted by his opponent's dress.

"She's just a modern girl," she said."

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