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Last Friday, September 4, 2020, Dmitry Svetushkin threw himself out of the window on the 6th floor of a house in Chisinau. Svestushkin left no farewell letter. The day before he had talked to friends via Skype and did not give the impression that something was wrong.
His friends describe Dmitry Svestushkin as a very friendly, well-read and versatile person, who, for example, tried to learn German to be able to read Goethe in the original. He was sporty, ran marathons and even once took part in an Ironman event.
Dmitry Svetushkin, born on July 25, 1980, was one of the best players of his country. Like practically all other Moldavian Grandmasters of his generation, he was a student of Vjacheslav Chebanenko.
Svetushkin cultivated a solid positional style and was particularly strong in the endgame. In 2000 Svetushkin won the Moldovan national championship and between 2000 and 2018 he represented his country at ten chess Olympiads.
Svetushkin took part in team championships in various countries. In the German Bundesliga he played for SG Trier and SK Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim. In 2002 he became a Grandmaster and in 2014 Svetushkin became an official FIDE trainer. He has done a lot to help and to train young Moldovan talents.
To remember and to honor Dmitry Svetushkin Mikhail Golubev annotated a game, which he played Svetushkin in 2002 at a tournament in Bucharest.
Translation from German: Johannes Fischer
