Valerian Onitiu

Onitiu, Petrović, Dawson & Fox
1st Pr. Kniest TT. 1930
FIDE Album 1914-1944/III
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1 1
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Mate in 8 (with grasshoppers Ga8, f7, h2 and h1)

Valerian Onitiu (also Valeriu Onitiu) (April 8, 1872, Sibiu, Romania – 31 December 1948, Timişoara)[1] was a Romanian chess problemist.

Onitiu composed all types of problems particularly fairy chess problems. Onitiu has ten chess problems in FIDE Albums.

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Problem

The solution of this problem is: 1.Gh3 Gh4 2.Gh5 Gh6 3.Gh7 Gh8 4.Ge7 Gd7 5.Gc7 Gb7 6.Ga7+ Ga6 7.Ga5+ Ga4 8.Ga3#

This problem is a case of incidence of thematic tourney prescript problems with grasshoppers without limiting the number of the moves. Identical problems were sent independently by four composers at about the same time.[2]

References

  1. ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 312, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 
  2. ^ Petrovič, Nenad (1949), Šahovski problem, Šahovska centrala, p. 142 

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