Duncan Suttles

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Duncan Suttles (born December 21, 1945 in San Francisco , USA ) is a Canadian chess player .

Duncan Suttles was 1967 International Master is, since 1973 Grandmaster since 1982 correspondence chess -Großmeister. He won the Canadian Championship in 1969 and played in eight Chess Olympiads for Canada ( 1964 , 1966 , 1968 , 1970 , 1972 , 1974 , 1982 and 1984 ). He achieved his best percentage of points in 1968 at the Olympics in Lugano with 11.5 points from 17 games on the second board. At the 1972 San Antonio tournament , Suttles finished seventh, setting his last norm for the grandmaster title, and winning the US Open the following year. Suttles' Elo rating is 2420 (as of September 2016), but he is listed as inactive because he has not played a rated game since 1984. He had his highest rating of 2485 in July 1973. Duncan Suttles also played correspondence chess. He won the Eino Heilimo Memorial Tournament II (1978-1982). Among the 17 participants were Kaarle Ojanen (10 points), Juliane Hund (8 points) and the former correspondence chess world champion Lucius Endzelins (6 points). Duncan Suttles retired from tournament chess in the 1980s and worked as a computer scientist, including as a stock analyst and in chess programming .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duncan Suttles' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ^ Duncan Suttles and the Eino Heilimo Memorial II
personal data
SURNAME Suttles, Duncan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco