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International Grandmaster (1973)
Correspondence International Grandmaster (1982)
2000 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1982, 1984)
1969 Canadian Champion
1973 Canadian Open Champion
Represented Canada at Interzonal Tournament (1967, 1970)
1971 Represented Canada on Bronze medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship
1965 1st, Group B at World Junior Championship
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 7 times (1969, 1973-7, 1981)
1982 1st, Eino Heilimo Memorial Correspondence Tournament
President, Chief Technologist of Magnetar Games
Software developer; architect of Omen II, the world's first personal computer resident full stock market quotation system
Retired from tournament play 1984.
Here are 12 of Duncan Suttles' most memorable games, selected by him in 1972-73 in Chess Canada:
Gyozo Forintos - Duncan Suttles
Olympiad, Tel Aviv, Israel, Final Round 10, 1964
Luis M.O. Bronstein - Duncan Suttles
World Junior Championship, Barcelona, Spain, Preliminary, 1965
Duncan Suttles - William Addison
U.S. Championship, New York, 1965.12
Lothar Zinn - Duncan Suttles
Olympiad, Havana, Cuba, Preliminary Round 3, 1966
Milan Matulovic - Duncan Suttles
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 4, 1967
Duncan Suttles - Viktor Kortchnoi
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 13, 1967
Duncan Suttles - Aivars Gipslis
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 15, 1967
Bent Larsen - Duncan Suttles
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 20, 1967
Duncan Suttles - Wolfgang Pietzsch
Canada - East Germany, Olympiad, Lugano, Final Round 7, 1968
Duncan Suttles - Bent Larsen
Olympiad, Lugano, Final Round 8, 1968
Duncan Suttles - Lev Polugaevsky
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Round 5, 1969
Zvonko Vranesic - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Championship playoff, Round 4, 1969
Lawrence Day's memorable games, from his Retrospective, 1999, include several by Suttles:
Bent Larsen - Duncan Suttles, Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 20, 1967
Duncan Suttles - Wolfgang Pietzsch, Canada - East Germany, Olympiad, Lugano, Final Round 7, 1968
Pal Benko - Duncan Suttles
US Open, Boston, 1964
Lawrence Day - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Open, Scarborough, 1964, Round 2
Lawrence Day - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Championship, Pointe Claire, Quebec, 1969
Larry Evans - Duncan Suttles
San Antonio, 1972
Bruce Harper's favourite game is one by Suttles:
Istvan Bilek - Duncan Suttles
Venice, Italy, 1974
Here is a game from the tournament that earned Duncan Suttles his Correspondence Grandmaster title:
Duncan Suttles - Matyas Berta
Heilimo Memorial, Correspondence, 1982
Sources: Articles by Duncan Suttles, Chess Canada, November, December 1972; January, February, March, May 1973 (game selection);
Retrospective by Lawrence Day, 1999 (game selection);
CHECK! edited by J. Ken MacDonald (game selection).
Contributors: Bruce Harper (game selection)
Copyright 2011. David Cohen.
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