Alexander Nikolayevich Panchenko (Russian: Александр Николаевич Панченко; 5 October 1953[1] 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.

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 Sergei Rublevsky, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Alisa Galliamova, and Sergey Volkov.

[2] Panchenko served as head coach of the 4th juniors' games in Kramatorsk, Soviet Union, which include such chess champions as Alexey Dreev, Igor Khenkin, Ruslan Shcherbakov, Maxim Sorokin, and Mikhail Ulibin.