Career
His name is attached to the Vitolins Variation in the Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation (1e4 c5 2Nf3 d6 3d4 cxd4 4Nxd4 Nf6 5Nc3 e6 6Bb5+) and the Vitolins Variation of the Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 g6 6Bg5 Bg7 7 Bb5+). He committed suicide by jumping onto the frozen ice of the Gauja river from a railway bridge in 1997. Lev Gutman vs Alvis Vitolinsh, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1979, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Reshevsky Variation (E46), 0-1
Alvis Vitolinsh vs Igor Viksni, Riga 1985, Russian Game: Cochrane Gambit, Center Variation (C42), 1-0.