▪️ Gerald Abrahams
▪️ Chess Master and Author
♦️ Gerald Abrahams was British lawyer (barrister), chess master and chess author.
He also was a very strong amateur who in the 1930's was playing master-class chess.
🔹 Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
🔹 Died: March 15, 1980
♦️ Abrahams at the Nottingham Major Open 1936 finished 3rd= with Karel Opocensky .
His eight chess books include Teach Yourself Chess (1948), The Chess Mind (1952), Handbook of Chess (1960), Technique in Chess (1961), Test Your Chess (1963), Pan Book of Chess (1966), Not Only Chess (1974), and Brilliancies in Chess (1977).
The Pan Book of Chess is a revised edition of his Handbook of Chess. It was still in print into the early 1980"s.
He introduced the Abrahams variation (also called the Noteboom variation) of the Queen’s Gambit Declined Semi-Slav Defense:
(1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bb4 6.e3 b5 7.Bd2 a5),
in 1925 known as the Abrahams-Noteboom variation.
He played in the Oxford vs Cambridge University match in 1926, 1927, and 1928.
In 1933 he finished in 3rd place in the British Championship.
In 1946, he defeated Viaschelav Ragozin (who later became the second World Correspondence Champion) in the Anglo-Soviet radio match (board 10), winning one game and drawing one game.
♦️ A memorable game by Abrahams👇🏼
🔸 Arnold Denker vs Gerald Abrahams
🔸 London B (1946), London ENG, rd 11, Jan-25
🔸 Queen Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation (D02)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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▪️ Chess Master and Author
♦️ Gerald Abrahams was British lawyer (barrister), chess master and chess author.
He also was a very strong amateur who in the 1930's was playing master-class chess.
🔹 Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
🔹 Died: March 15, 1980
♦️ Abrahams at the Nottingham Major Open 1936 finished 3rd= with Karel Opocensky .
His eight chess books include Teach Yourself Chess (1948), The Chess Mind (1952), Handbook of Chess (1960), Technique in Chess (1961), Test Your Chess (1963), Pan Book of Chess (1966), Not Only Chess (1974), and Brilliancies in Chess (1977).
The Pan Book of Chess is a revised edition of his Handbook of Chess. It was still in print into the early 1980"s.
He introduced the Abrahams variation (also called the Noteboom variation) of the Queen’s Gambit Declined Semi-Slav Defense:
(1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bb4 6.e3 b5 7.Bd2 a5),
in 1925 known as the Abrahams-Noteboom variation.
He played in the Oxford vs Cambridge University match in 1926, 1927, and 1928.
In 1933 he finished in 3rd place in the British Championship.
In 1946, he defeated Viaschelav Ragozin (who later became the second World Correspondence Champion) in the Anglo-Soviet radio match (board 10), winning one game and drawing one game.
♦️ A memorable game by Abrahams👇🏼
🔸 Arnold Denker vs Gerald Abrahams
🔸 London B (1946), London ENG, rd 11, Jan-25
🔸 Queen Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation (D02)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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Grenke Classic Rd 4: Caruana 1-0 Naiditsch was the only decisive game in Round 4 of the #GRENKEChess Classic & took Fabi into the shared lead with MVL & Vitiugov
🔘 Reymond Keene - Anthony Miles , Hastings 1975
🔘 The position after 16 ... Re8
✖️ White to move ✖️
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🔘 The position after 16 ... Re8
✖️ White to move ✖️
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What is your idea about white's move?☝️☝️
Strategic or Tactical?
✅ See answer in this immortal game and download annotated by Reymond Keene PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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What is your idea about white's move?☝️☝️
Strategic or Tactical?
✅ See answer in this immortal game and download annotated by Reymond Keene PGN file👇🏼👇🏼
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🔷 #Imortall_Chess_Games
🔷 #Game_2
🔸 Reymond Keene - Anthony Miles , Hastings 1975
🔸 Download PGN file notes by Reymond Keene👇🏼👇🏼
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🔷 #Game_2
🔸 Reymond Keene - Anthony Miles , Hastings 1975
🔸 Download PGN file notes by Reymond Keene👇🏼👇🏼
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🔹 Alexei Shirov
🔹 Chess grandmaster
💢 #about_Shirov_1
♦️ Alexei Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster. He was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
▪️ Full name: Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Latvia
Spain (1995–2011)
▪️ Born: 4 July 1972 (age 45)
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1990)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2644 (April 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2755 (January 2008)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 1994)
♦️ IM (1989); GM (1990).
♦️Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov was born in Riga in what was then Soviet Latvia. He has a distinctive aggressive and imaginative style that has won him many admirers throughout his career. He has ranked among the world's top players since 1990. He frequently worked his way deep into the World Championship cycles, coming as close to the pinnacle of chess as winning the right to challenge Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Championship, meeting Viswanathan Anand in the final of the 2000 Knockout Tournament and playing in the final match of the World Chess Cup (2007) and playing in the 2007 Candidates. He has been officially ranked as high as number 2 in the world.
♦️ Shirov became the U16 World Champion in 1988 and was runner-up in 1990 in the World Junior Championship behind Ilya M Gurevich. He won the Spanish championship in 2002 with 8.5/9.
♦️ A memorable game by Alexey Shirov which known "Troublesome Priest" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
🔸 Linares (1998), Linares ESP, rd 10, Mar-04
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)
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🔹 Chess grandmaster
💢 #about_Shirov_1
♦️ Alexei Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster. He was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
▪️ Full name: Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Latvia
Spain (1995–2011)
▪️ Born: 4 July 1972 (age 45)
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1990)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2644 (April 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2755 (January 2008)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 1994)
♦️ IM (1989); GM (1990).
♦️Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov was born in Riga in what was then Soviet Latvia. He has a distinctive aggressive and imaginative style that has won him many admirers throughout his career. He has ranked among the world's top players since 1990. He frequently worked his way deep into the World Championship cycles, coming as close to the pinnacle of chess as winning the right to challenge Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Championship, meeting Viswanathan Anand in the final of the 2000 Knockout Tournament and playing in the final match of the World Chess Cup (2007) and playing in the 2007 Candidates. He has been officially ranked as high as number 2 in the world.
♦️ Shirov became the U16 World Champion in 1988 and was runner-up in 1990 in the World Junior Championship behind Ilya M Gurevich. He won the Spanish championship in 2002 with 8.5/9.
♦️ A memorable game by Alexey Shirov which known "Troublesome Priest" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
🔸 Linares (1998), Linares ESP, rd 10, Mar-04
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)
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♦️ Today we have selected a brilliant endgame by Shirov!! ☝️
♦️ Black to move☝️☝️
🔵 What is your idea?
I hope, you have managed to calculate all required lines !!
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♦️ Black to move☝️☝️
🔵 What is your idea?
I hope, you have managed to calculate all required lines !!
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