- Panno tied for first at Lone Pine 1977.
submitted by - Chotu Dhiman
- He played various more famous grandmasters, occasionally losing to them brilliantly.
submitted by - suresh kumar
- Panno was the first top world chess player born in South America.
submitted by - Amit Rank
- He was still active as of 2008, finishing third in the Bobby Fischer Memorial tournament held in Villa Martelli.
submitted by - Nihaal Jain
- He won the international tournaments in 1954 and 1969 (shared with Miguel Najdorf), and the open tournaments in 1986, 1988, and 1994.
submitted by - Vaibhav Dhiman