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Jul-16-04
 | | IMlday: Suttles vs Reshevsky, 1975
This was one of Suttles' last games before his 'retirement' in 1975.
Unfortunately the tournament book scrambled the move reconstruction for the moves before time control to try to find some way White's king had crossed the e-file.
Suttles had read many books but gave them away to Peter Biyiasas. Staying with him in Vancouver for a couple of weeks in 1972 I was looking forward to looking at his old game scores, but he hadn't kept them! To study chess meant to move the pieces on the board. All in all a very original and inspiring player.
We first played at the 1964 Canadian Open where he tied for third beating me in the process. He was supporting himself with prize money from weekend Swisses. His rating zoomed up to qualify for the 1965 US Closed but had a flu during the event. Then he moved to Vancouver and didn't go back to the States for 7 years when he played San Antonio and completed his GM norm requirements. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | Malacha: <Seoulmama> I'd be glad to send the Suttles games that I have to you.I think it'd be much better to send them by e-mail,than try and post them here on the Suttles page.Even though they are lightly annotated,I think they'd take up way to much space to post them here.If you want to give me an e-mail address,I'll send them to you.It'll take me a little while to get them all together,but I'll send them as soon as I possibly can. |
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| Jul-16-04 | | seoulmama: Malacha, I would appreciate it. seoulmama@luukku.com is my e-mail. |
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| Jul-22-04 | | Ed Caruthers: I was actually watching the night Suttles played Evans, San Antonio, 72. He also blew the audience away. |
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| Jul-25-04 | | atripodi: I'm trying to figure out Suttles' opening strategy and, as a fairly novice player, am completely lost. Can anyone help me work out some basic principles he used, like for example, under what circumstances he would play Nh3 rather than Nf3 or vice-versa. Was it just preference at game-time, or were there certain formations he'd play a3, b4 against rather than continue on the kingside for example? |
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Jul-25-04
| | IMlday: To understand Suttles' openings, watch the e4-square for White and the e5-square for Black. Over-protecting this square (Nc3,d3,Bg2,Nf2, etc) stabilizes the center and allows the pawn phalanxes to advance.
The principle that pieces belong behind the pawns is as old as Philidor; eg, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 (idea ..Nd7) stronger than 2..Nc6 which blocks the c-pawn's mobility.
In QP games, 1,d4 d5 2.Nc3 is considered weaker than 2.c4 and 3.Nc3
with unblocked c-pawn.
So instead of 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, Philidor preferred 2.f4 ef 4.Nf3 with pieces *behind* pawns.
Likewise in Sicilian: 1.e4 c5 2.f4 is Philidor, so Nf3 will not block the pawns. |
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| Aug-13-04 | | parisattack: Hi, Malacha -
If you are still offering those games of DS I like very much to see them, please. duane@commtools.com...Anyone have anymore word on the book of his games? |
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| Aug-13-04 | | TechN9ne: <Malacha> i would like to take a look at the annotations also. could u please send them to themansillin@hotmail.com |
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| Aug-17-04 | | TechN9ne: i found a website with some notes on a suttles game. the annotations are done by a man who claims to be writing a book over suttles. http://www.chessbc.ca/emailbulletin... |
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| Aug-17-04 | | Malacha: <parisattack/TechN9ne> I just read your post from the 13th.I'd be glad to send you the Suttles games.It'll take a little while,but I'll get them to you as soon as I can.<seoulmama> I haven't forgot about you,I'll send you more games as soon as I can. |
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| Aug-18-04 | | TechN9ne: ty malacha |
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Aug-18-04
| | IMlday: Try this: board one, Canada-USA, Nice Olympiad preliminaries, 1974:
Kavalek vs Suttles, 1974
Suttles was very scary indeed! |
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| Aug-20-04 | | TechN9ne: indeed! |
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| Sep-06-04 | | TechN9ne: <malcha>
i was wondering if you had sent those games to my email. im not in a hurry i was just thinking i possibly deleted the email by accident, or perhaps it was sent to my junk email by mistake. |
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| Sep-29-04 | | Pawsome: it doesn't surprise me that one of the latest sightings of Duncan Suttles was at bughouse tourney. I have a distant recollection of watching him play " bombalot" against Bob Zuk, Alan Hill and some of the other denizens frequenting the Vancouver Chess Club in the nineteen seventies. The game was, I believe, invented by Suttles. The object was get a piece to an imaginary squares called D zero and E zero behind the opponent's king or queen. Players also had pieces that were designated as bombs that could be exploded.with the predictable result. Suttles was a real iconoclast and an extraordinary talent, especially considering that he honed his game in Vancouver, a small city by international standards and not a place known for nurturing chess talents. |
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| Sep-30-04 | | tacticsjokerxxx: <"This month's August Chess Life, page 36, just out, carries the game Habu played against Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky. Chess Life makes no mention of who Habu is. The game is really wild. Habu plays in a style reminiscent of Duncan Suttles. Suttles used to say "The strongest square for the knight is king's bishop two." Sure enough, Habu plays 23. Nf7."> interesting ...
are there any notable games of suttles which display a knight on king's bishop two? |
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| Sep-30-04 | | tacticsjokerxxx: you know prior to today I had never heard of this Duncan Suttles, and I think it's pretty exciting, because his opening repertoire is really quite similiar to mine, and I've made it all up by myself. |
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| Sep-30-04 | | Knight13: I see lots of you kibizing on him. Who is this guy? |
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| Sep-30-04 | | technical draw: The guy who invented Duncan Donuts? |
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| Oct-02-04 | | tacticsjokerxxx: I think he'd be rather fat if he 'invented' Duncan Donuts, image how many you'd have to eat to find the perfect donut. |
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| Oct-03-04 | | Resignation Trap: 'Way back at the start of Leko vs Kramnik, 2004, <fgh> on page 1 of the comments suggested 1.a3 and 2.Ra2 as an opening. Well, Suttles came really close to this in the following game: 1.a3 and 4.Ra2!
Suttles vs Schmid, 1975
<tacticsjokerxxx> have you ever included this opening in your repertoire? |
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| Oct-04-04 | | tacticsjokerxxx: <Resignation Trap> haha no I can't say i have, but he only played 4.Ra2 because of the bishop threat and wanted to follow up with Bb2, however the opponent blocked his bishop with a pawn, moving a bishop to the second rank is quite an underrated move in the opening however, if you can in the long term get another rook (or queen) underneath it, and place it on the same colour sqare as an inactive bishop on the other side so it can't be threatened, it does perhaps disclose one's intentions however... but looks cool nonetheless ,) |
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| Oct-04-04 | | tacticsjokerxxx: This game is a nice example of Suttles queen's knight to king's bishop two theories. Beliavsky vs S Kindermann, 1998
Notice also that it's that very knight which delivers the final move. |
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Dec-26-04
 | | redlance: Does anybody know about a book of
GM Duncan Suttles games.
If one isnt in the works it
would be a good one to have. |
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| Dec-30-04 | | TechN9ne: redlance i contacted the author of the suttles book and he said it would be out some time this summer. |
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