Author: Walter B. Suesman
Born: 1918
Died: 1985
Bio: Walter B. Suesman, was a chessmaster and played in major U.S. Tournaments in the late 1930's and throughout the 1940's and 50's.  Several of his games are quoted in chess books andbooks of opening theory.   He was a regular at the old Providence Chess Club on Aborn St. in Providence, and wrote a chess column for the Providence Journal for several decades.  In addition to his expertise at chess, it is little known that he built beautiful scale model wooden replicas of steamships, yachts and sailing sloops.  These wooden models were built to such exactitude that he even took bits of wooden match boxes to fabricate authentic looking planking on the ships' decks.   Most of his ship models were donated to the Providence Public library where they can be seen on exhibit every now and then.
   Other contemporaries of Suesman at the Providence Chess club were Al Martin, another master and U.S. Open contender in the 1930's, 40's and 50's and Warren Chamandy.