Magesh Chandran Panchanathan (born 10 August 1983) is an Indian chess player.

In 2003 he won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in Sri Lanka.

[1] In 2005 he shared first place with Kamil Mitoń in the 33rd World Open, played in Philadelphia over the Independence Day weekend.

[3] In 2008 he tied for 3rd–6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Sadikin Irwanto and Susanto Megaranto in the Kuala Lumpur Open.

[4] In 2009 he tied for 1st–4th with Alexander Areshchenko, Koneru Humpy and Evgenij Miroshnichenko in the Mumbai Mayor Cup[5] and in 2010 tied for 3rd–6th with Vladimir Malaniuk, David Smerdon, and Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury in the Doeberl Cup in Canberra.

[6] In 2011 he tied for 2nd–4th with Tigran L. Petrosian and Abhijeet Gupta in the 3rd Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament[7] and came third at Berkeley.

[9] In 2015 he won, tied with Sergei Azarov, the New Jersey Open tournament, which took place in Morristown; both players scored 5/6.

[10] Magesh Chandran 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 11 July 2005:[11] Sharing first place at the World Open is Panchanathan's best career result.

He can play sharply, as a local Virginia master, Stanley Fink Jr., found out in a messy line of the Trompowsky Opening.

Bh4 (This old line of the Trompowsky opening has been resurrected by Spanish grandmaster Juan Bellon Lopez. )