Kari Valtonen

Valtonen is chess problemist who worked in several genres, including endgame study, helpmate and selfmate.^[1] He was one of Finland's chess problem magazine Tehtäväniekka authors. In 1984 in Sarajevo Valtonen won the second individual World Chess Solving Championship.^[2] In the same year he gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster.^[3] He also is FIDE 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.^[4]

• Kari Valtonen chess games at 365Chess.com
• Kari Valtonen problems at the PDB-Server