Alexander Panchenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian chess Grandmaster
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Place of Birth: Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
About Alexander Panchenko
- Alexander Nikolayevich Panchenko (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ????????; 5 October 1953 in Chelyabinsk – 19 May 2009 in Kazan) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and honored coach who headed the All-Russian chess school.
- Chessmetrics.com, which provides retroactive guesstimates on the ratings of older players, places his highest ranking as 45th in the world in 1981.
- He should not be confused with a younger and somewhat weaker player of the same name.
- Panchenko's middle initial is "n", while his namesake has a middle initial of "G".
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