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Kari Valtonen
Kari Valtonen (born April 26, 1954) is a Finnish chess problemist.
Biography.
Valtonen is chess problemist who worked in several genres, including endgame study, helpmate and selfmate. He was one of Finland's chess problem magazine "Tehtäväniekka" authors. In 1984 in Sarajevo Valtonen won the second individual World Chess Solving Championship. In the same year he gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster. He also is FIDE International Arbiter of Chess Composition. In 2004 Valtonen was the chief judge of chess
Alaska Native Language Center.
- Kalifornsky, Peter. 1991 "Kʼtlʼeghʼi Sukdu, A Denaʼina Legacy: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky" edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
- Kari, James. 1975. "A classification of the Tanaina dialects". Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 17:49-55.
- Kari, James. 2007. "Denaʼina Topical Dictionary." Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. .
- Kari, James, Priscilla Russell