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The Abrahams-Noteboom variation

Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author and barrister.

He is best known for the "Abrahams Defence" of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams-Noteboom variation:
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4 7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7 (ECO D31)

In 1933 he was third at Hastings in the British Championship, after Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Tylor.

He was known as a strong blindfold player. In 1934 he took on four strong Irish players, playing blindfold, at the Belgravia Hotel in Belfast, winning two games and drawing two.

In the Anglo-Soviet match of 1946 he scored +1 –1 against Viacheslav Ragozin.

He is the author of several books, including The Chess Mind (1951), Technique in Chess (1961), and The Pan Book of Chess.

[edit] External links

• 165 Games of Gerald Abrahams at ChessGames.com
• Gerald Abrahams and the blindfold exhibition

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