SUETIN chess player biography

Date of birth: November 16 Place of birth: Zinovievsk Date of Death: September 10 The place of death: Moscow, Russia ID: About the author of Tigran Petrosyan, in competitions for the world championship -, -, chessorist and writer. Alexey Suetin with his mother, who worked as a nurse in the hospital, lived in Tula. In Krasnoyarsk at the end of the war, Alexei Suetin traveled to visit his father, who at that time served there in a military hospital.

Alexey Suetin began to play chess in childhood, his father taught him. Then he was engaged in the Palace of Pioneers of the city of Tula, fulfilled the norm of the first category of the year. After the war, Suetin lived in Tula, Minsk, then in Moscow. At 21, he became a candidate for the master, graduated from the institute. You can read about his life, work and chess in the book of Alexei Stepanovich Suetin “Chess through the prism of time”, the Russian Word publishing house, and a year.

This is the only, purely literary book of Suetin, where he tells in detail about himself and his friends chess players. In the year he fulfilled the norm of master of sports and made his debut in the final of the USSR championship. Ragozin wrote: “Suetin is not shabby, looking for a new one, doubts the old, even a thousand times proven ...” In Kyiv, Suetin acted as a representative of Belarus.

In 10 years, Suetin entered the team of T. Petrosyan in a match for the world championship with M. One might say that the Union brought mutual benefit - Petrosyan became the world champion, and SUETIN two years later - by the international grandmaster, winning the tournaments in Sarajevo and Copenhagen subsequently 10 victories in international tournaments.

From the beginning, X switched to coaching work and literary activity. In his interviews and memoirs, A. Suetin, as a rule, noted Petrosyan's beneficial influence on him: “Thanks to communication with Tigran, I realized that it was not the gods that burn pots. His playful, ironic tone, even when he spoke of the great world, helped me learn to treat everything with a fair amount of humor, not to experience some kind of failure too much.

” He actively worked as a chess commentator on television, and commented on the world championship between Karpov and Kasparov from a year. In the year, he made himself a gift for the Letnik, becoming the world champion among the Seniors. SUETIN is the author of more than 40 books on the theory of debut and Mittelshpil, as well as the work on the Soviet world champions - Botvinnik and Petrosyan, the grandmasters of Keres and Bronstein.

He was buried in the Donskoy cemetery. Alexey Suetin was married twice. His first wife was Kira Alekseevna Zvorykina - a Soviet chess player, a grandmaster in chess. From this marriage, the son Alexander was born. Alexander Suetin Economist, Doctor of Sciences. From the second marriage, which lasted 40 years, the daughter of Elena was born. Elena Suetina is an artist, a member of the creative Union of Professional Artists.

Books of the author SUETIN Alexei Stepanovich.