Valerian Onitiu

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Onitiu, Petrović, Dawson & Fox
1^st Pr. Kniest TT. 1930
FIDE Album 1914-1944/III
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8 |dd| | | | | | | |= 7 | | | | | |dd| | |= 6 | | | | | | | | |= 5 | | | | | | | | |= 4 | | | | | | | | |= 3 | | | | | | | | |= 2 |pd| | | | | | |dd|= 1 |kd| |kl| | | | |dl|= a b c d e f g h

Mate in 8 (with grasshoppers Ga8, f7, h2 and h1)

Valerian Onitiu (also Valeriu Onitiu) (April 8 1872, Sibiu, Romania – 31 December 1948, Timişoara) [citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=312] was a Romanian chess problemist.

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

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. [citation
last=Petrovič| first=Nenad | author-link=Nenad Petrović (chess)
year=1949 | title=Šahovski problem
publisher=Šahovska centrala
isbn=
page=142]

References

Further reading

* citation
last=Ştefaniu | first=Constantin
year=1984 | title=Şah de la A la Z
location=Bucharest | page=304

External links

* [http://www.softdecc.com/pdb/search.pdb?expression=A='Onitiu' Onitiu problems] on PDB Server
* [http://www.universalis.fr/media-encyclopedie/87/V070840E/encyclopedie/V_Onitiu_1922_1923.htm 2005 Encyclopædia Universalis France S.A.]
* Hannu Harkola (2007) [http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/hcc40.pdf Handbook of chess composition]