January 23rd

Victor Cioană (23-01-1939 - 07.01.2010) Romanian composer and player

Victor (on the left) 
analyzing an endgame with Dieter Klosterman

Victor Cioană was the best solver in his hometown Suceava. Victor won several times the solving tourney organized by Romanian magazine "Revista Română de Şah”. It was only natural for him to publish his first problem in this same magazine. It was a helpmate in 4 with 2 solutions.

Cioană, Victor
Revista Română de Şah, 1988

h#4

4 + 5

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1.Be4 Bg8 2.Bh7 e4 3.Kg6 Kf8 4.f6 Bf7#
1.Bf3 Bxd3 2.Bh5 e4 3.Kg6 e5+ 4.f5 exf6 e.p.#

Indian.