Gerald Abrahams
He is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the 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.
Abrahams 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925031630/http://www.amici.iccf.com/issues/Issue_07/issue_07_the_radio_match_grb-urss_1946.html Anglo-Soviet radio match] of 1946 he scored one win and one draw against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1941
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Published 1971
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