Kari Valtonen (born April 26, 1954) is a Finnish

chess problemist A chess composer is a person who creates Endgame study, endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, Chess problem#Types of problem, twomovers, threemovers, Grotesque (chess)#M ...

Biography

Valtonen is chess problemist who worked in several genres, including

endgame study In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a composed position—that is, one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find the essentially uniqu ...

helpmate A helpmate is a type of chess problem in which both sides cooperate in order to achieve the goal of checkmating Black. In a helpmate in ''n'' moves, Black moves first, then White, each side moving ''n'' times, to culminate in White's ''nth'' mov ...

and

selfmate A selfmate is a chess problem in which White, moving first, must force Black to deliver checkmate within a specified number of moves against their will. Selfmates were once known as sui-mates. Example The problem shown is a relatively simple examp ...

. He was one of Finland's chess problem magazine ''Tehtäväniekka'' authors. In 1984 in

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Valtonen won the second individual

World Chess Solving Championship The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of ...

. In the same year he gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster. He also is

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...

International Arbiter of Chess Composition. In 2004 Valtonen was the chief judge of chess composition's international tournament in honor of his fifty-year anniversary.

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