Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

Magesh Chandran Panchanathan was born in Madurai in 1983. He won the Asian Junior Championship in Sri Lanka in 2003. After moving into American university chess, he completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Texas at Dallas. In 2005 he shared first place with Kamil Mitoń at the World Open and won the UTD Grandmaster Invitational. He received the grandmaster title in 2006.

Magesh Chandran shared first place at the Mumbai Mayor's Cup in 2009 and won the Philadelphia Open outright in 2012. In 2015 he shared the New Jersey Open title with Sergei Azarov.