Gerald Abrahams

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Gerald Abrahams (born April 15, 1907 , † March 15, 1980 ) was a British chess player , composer and author of mainly legal and chess-specific books.

chess

Abrahams learned to play chess in 1921 at the age of 14 and shortly afterwards began to study chess composition.

In the opening theory of chess, Abrahams became known through the Abrahams Variation in the Semi-Slav Defense . This is often named after Daniël Noteboom , who apparently discovered it independently of Abrahams. Abrahams used it in the university game Oxford against London in 1925, while Noteboom made it known through its use at the 1930 Chess Olympiad in Hamburg.

He also won in 1946 one of Heinrich Fraenkel proclaimed competition for the best translation of the word tight spot into English by the word move bound correspondence sent.

In the 1950s Abrahams wrote two books on the Julia Wallace murder case . William Herbert Wallace is said to have killed his wife Julia in Liverpool in 1931, but gave as an alibi a visit to a chess club.

Abrahams took part in several British championships, with 3rd place in 1933 behind Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Henry Tylor his greatest success.

Private

Abrahams worked as a lawyer. He left behind his widow Elsie.

Works

  • Teach yourself chess (1948)
  • The chess mind (1951)
  • The legal mind (1954)
  • The law for writers and journalists (1958)
  • Technique in chess (1961)
  • The Jewish mind (1961)
  • Brains in bridge (1962)
  • Test your chess (1963)
  • The handbook of chess (1965)
  • The Pan book of chess (1965)
  • Not only chess (1974)
  • Brilliance in chess (1977)

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Date of birth and death taken from: Composers Names in Various Alphabets ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
  2. ↑ Noteboom or Abrahams: Whose Variation is it Anyway? ( Memento of 9 February 2012 at the Internet Archive ) on chesscafe.com via Internet Archive (English)
  3. ↑ More information on the case can be found on Edward Winter's website .

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personal data
SURNAME Abrahams, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chess player and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1907
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1980