Magesh Panchanathan
| Magesh Chandran Panchanathan | |
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| Full name | Magesh Chandran Panchanathan |
| Country | India |
| Born |
August 10, 1983 Madurai, India |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2494 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2586 (September 2011) |
Magesh Chandran Panchanathan (born August 10, 1983 in Madurai) is an Indian chess Grandmaster.
In 2003 he won Asian Junior Championship in Sri Lanka. In 2005 he tied for first with Kamil Mitoń in the 33rd World Open, played in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend. In the same year he came first in the UTD GM Invitational Tournament in Richardson, Texas. In 2008 tied for 3rd–6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Sadikin Irwanto and Susanto Megaranto in the Kuala Lumpur Open. In 2009 he tied for 1st–4th with Alexander Areshchenko, Humpy Koneru and Evgenij Miroshnichenko in the Mumbai Mayor Cup and in 2010 tied for 3rd–6th with Vladimir Malaniuk, David Smerdon, Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury in the Doeberl Cup in Canberra. In 2011 he tied for 2nd–4th with Tigran L. Petrosian and Abhijeet Gupta in the 3rd Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament and came third at Berkeley. In 2012 he won the Philadelphia Open outright with 7/9.
On the May 2010 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2549. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "thamizhan".
He completed both undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Below is an excerpt from an article by Lubomir Kavalek in The Washington Post on July 11, 2005:
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