Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O Panchenko sa avea ma faiaʻoga sili o le 4th juniors' games i Kramatorsk, Soviet Union, lea e aofia ai siamupini taʻalo taʻalo e pei o Alexey Dreev, Igor Khenkin, Ruslan Shcherbakov, Maxim Sorokin, ma Mikhail Ulibin. Sa ia taitaia foi le au a tamaitai o le Olimipeka i le
O le Olimipeka lona 30 o le Chess. Na tusia e Panchenko le tusi e lua o le "Theory and Practice of Chess Endings", lea o loo faaaogaina pea e le au tusitala i aso nei, ma le "Mastering Chess Middlegames: Lectures from the All-Russian School of Grandmasters".