won by 2½–1½. He took another crack at the Interzonal level at Palma de Mallorca, 1970, scoring 10/23 for a tied 15–16th place, but he did not qualify for the final Candidates' matches that would choose the title challenger. Olympic stalwart Suttles appeared at age 18 on the Canadian Olympiad team for Tel Aviv, 1964, for the first of his eight selections, including six in a row, over a period of 20 years. He usually played a large number of games in these team events, close to the maximum. Here are his complete results; his totals for Canada in Olympiads are: (+49 −30 =43), for 57.8 percent. He also played board one for Canada on its bronze medal–winning team at the 1971 Student Olympiad. Tel Aviv 1964: 1st reserve, 5½/10, +4 −2 =3; Havana 1966: 4th board, 10/18, +8 −5 =5; Lugano 1968: 2nd board, 11½/17, +7 =9 −1; Siegen 1970: 2nd board, 8/16, +3 −3 =10; Mayagüez Student Olympiad 1971: 1st board, 6½/11, +6 −4 =1, team bronze; Skopje 1972: 1st board, 9½/17, +6 −4 =7; Nice 1974: 1st board, 10½/19, +8 −6 =5; Valletta 1980: 2nd board, 3/8, +2 −4 =2; Thessaloniki 1984: 1st board, 5/11, +4 −5 =2. Grandmaster Suttles became a Canadian citizen in 1966, and married his wife Dobrila in 1968. Suttles was already of Grandmaster strength by 1968, and in fact qualified for the grandmaster title at the Lugano Olympiad. However, he was denied the title on the basis of a technicality, that he had played (and won) one more than the required number of games in the event. Instead, Suttles settled for the International Master title, earned in 1967 at the Sousse Interzonal. He finally achieved the Grandmaster title at the San Antonio tournament of 1972, gaining the last half-point he needed against Armenian Grandmaster and former world champion Tigran Petrosian. He won the Canadian Open Chess Championship at Ottawa 1973. He also won the 1973 La Presse Open in Montreal. Suttles tied for first place in the U.S. Open Chess Championship at Chicago 1973, scoring 10/12 and defeating GM Walter Browne in the last round. Suttles placed clear second in the 1974 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Montreal with 9½/11, losing only to the winner Ljubomir Ljubojević. He won the Western Canadian Open, Vancouver 1981, defeating Tony Miles and Yasser Seirawan in the final two rounds. He won his final Canadian event,