Alexey Suetin

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Alexey Stepanovich Suetin (November 16, 1926 – September 10, 2001) was a Russian International Grandmaster of chess and an author.

A resident of Moscow, he became an International Master in 1961 and a Grandmaster in 1965. His philosophy was always that "mastery is not enough; you must dare, take risks". It was an axiom that fashioned him into a tough and fiercely competitive player and appeared to bring him his fair share of success.

As an active tournament player in the 1960s and 1970s, he achieved many fine results, including sharing or winning outright first place at Sarajevo 1965, Copenhagen 1965, Titovo Uzice 1966, Havana 1969, Brno 1975 (the inaugural Czech Open Championship - the title of Champion going to Vlastimil Hort on tie-break), Lublin 1976, and Dubna 1979.

Suetin participated in many USSR Championships of the 1950s and 60s, his best finishes being shared fourth place in 1963 (behind Spassky, Kholmov and Stein) and 1965 (behind Stein, Polugaevsky and Taimanov).

As a veteran player, he won the World Senior Championship in 1996.

He authored many chess books; principally those concerned with the middlegame or opening. These include; Modern Chess Opening Theory, Three Steps To Chess Mastery, Plan Like A Grandmaster, Contemporary Approach To The Middle-game, French Defence, The Complete Grunfeld, and The Complete Spanish.