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Valerian Onitiu (also Valeriu Onitiu) (April 8, 1872, Sibiu, Romania – 31 December 1948, Timisoara) 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.
References
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