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– 19 May 2009 in

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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".

Life and career

Panchenko was born and raised in Chelyabinsk. He started playing

at the local

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and then was mentored by Leonid Gratvol at Krupskaya Chess School. In 1971, Panchenko won the Youth Chess Championship and was named Soviet champion in 1978, and RSFSR champion in 1979. In 1981, he won an international chess tournament in Sochi, becoming grandmaster of second rank. After a successful win at the tournament he was offered a position by Vera Tikhomirova to lead the Russian Chess School. Following the acceptance of a position, Panchenko trained such future grandmasters as

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, and Sergey Volkov. Panchenko served as head coach of the 4th juniors' games in

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, Soviet Union, which include such chess champions as

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, Ruslan Shcherbakov,

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, and

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. He also headed the women’s Olympic team at the

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. Panchenko authored the two-volume ''Theory and Practice of Chess Endings'', which is still used by grandmasters to this day, and ''Mastering Chess Middlegames: Lectures from the All-Russian School of Grandmasters''.

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