Notable Chess Games
- Gyozo Forintos vs Duncan Suttles, Tel Aviv Olympiad 1964, Modern Defence / Queen's Pawn Game (A40), 0-1 White responds in quiet and unusual fashion, but the game soon intensifies to Black's advantage.
- Milan Matulovic vs Duncan Suttles, Sousse Interzonal 1967, Modern Defence, Averbakh Variation (A42), 0-1 The strong Yugoslav Grandmaster is seemingly perplexed by Black's unusual strategy.
- Bent Larsen vs Duncan Suttles, Sousse Interzonal 1967, Modern Defence (B06), 0-1 Larsen was the Chess Oscar winner for 1967, so this win was perhaps the biggest so far for the young Canadian.
- Hans-Joachim Hecht vs Duncan Suttles, Belgrade 1969, Modern Defence (B06), 0-1 Another Modern execution of a strong European; the game is finally decided after a very long endgame.
- Duncan Suttles vs Borislav Ivkov, Belgrade 1969, Modern / Hungarian Opening (A00), 1-0 One of the first games for this new variation, and it turns out successfully for White.
- Larry Evans vs Duncan Suttles, San Antonio 1972, Modern Defence (B06), 0-1 The many-time American champion gets schooled in new ways.
- Ken Rogoff vs Duncan Suttles, Canadian Open, Ottawa 1973, Modern Defence (B06), 0-1 Two young stars debate leading edge opening ideas.
- Duncan Suttles vs Kevin Spraggett, Canadian Open, Ottawa 1973, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation (B26), 1-0 Spraggett was one of the top young Canadians of the next generation at this stage; he would go on to become Canada's strongest-ever player.
- Walter Browne vs Duncan Suttles, U.S. Open, Chicago 1973, Modern Defence (B06), 0-1 The rising star Browne, an eventual six-time American champion, learns painfully about Suttles' exploitation of weak squares.
- Duncan Suttles vs Pal Benko, Hastings 1973-74, Modern / Hungarian Opening (A00), 1-0 It was Benko himself who had first introduced this variation in the early 1960s, but here Suttles shows off a few new twists.
- Karl Robatsch vs Duncan Suttles, Nice Olympiad 1974, Modern Defence (A41), 0-1 Suttles shows he is still among the world's best with the Modern.
- Lubomir Kavalek vs Duncan Suttles, Nice Olympiad 1974, Pirc Defence (B08), 0-1 The top American board has to concede defeat.
- Duncan Suttles vs Bent Larsen, Canadian Open, Montreal 1974, English Opening (A13), 1-0 Suttles takes off the many-time Candidate Larsen again, this time on home soil.
- Duncan Suttles vs Samuel Reshevsky, Lone Pine 1975, English Opening (A26), 1-0 Reshevsky was the epitome of orthodox play in chess, so this game is a fascinating contrast of styles.
- Duncan Suttles vs Tony Miles, Vancouver 1981, Modern / Hungarian Opening (A00), 1-0 Miles, after losing this game, would go on to use this variation himself with success.
- Yasser Seirawan vs Duncan Suttles, Vancouver 1981, English Opening (A21), 0-1 Seirawan was one of the world's top young players, and he would develop a style which resembled that of Suttles.
- Pal Benko vs Duncan Suttles, Boston 1964, Modern Defence, 1-0 Suttles loses this game due to an oversight at the end but it is a wonderful game is full of tactics and plays like one long combination. This game was chosen by Canadian IM Lawrence Day as his favourite game in Learn From The Grandmasters.
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