✅ #about_Abrahams
🔹 Gerald Abrahams
🔹 English Chess Master and Chess Author
♦️ Gerald Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister.
▪️ Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
▪️ Died: March 15, 1980
▪️ Books: 👇🏼
🔴 The chess mind
🔴 Technique in chess,
🔴 Not only chess, MORE
🔴 The Pan book of Chess
🔴 Test your chess
🔴 Teach yourself chess
♦️ Gerald Abrahams 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 Anglo-Soviet radio match of 1946 he scored one win and one draw against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10.
♦️ A memorable and informative Tactical short game by Abrahams 👇🏼
🔹 Gerald Abrahams vs. Edmund Spencer
🔹Liverpool, England - 1930
🔹 Slav Defense: Schlechter Variation (D15)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
🔹 Gerald Abrahams
🔹 English Chess Master and Chess Author
♦️ Gerald Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister.
▪️ Born: April 15, 1907, Liverpool, United Kingdom
▪️ Died: March 15, 1980
▪️ Books: 👇🏼
🔴 The chess mind
🔴 Technique in chess,
🔴 Not only chess, MORE
🔴 The Pan book of Chess
🔴 Test your chess
🔴 Teach yourself chess
♦️ Gerald Abrahams 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 Anglo-Soviet radio match of 1946 he scored one win and one draw against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10.
♦️ A memorable and informative Tactical short game by Abrahams 👇🏼
🔹 Gerald Abrahams vs. Edmund Spencer
🔹Liverpool, England - 1930
🔹 Slav Defense: Schlechter Variation (D15)
♦️ Review and download annotated PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
📘 12...f5!?
An interesting pawn sacrifice to seize the initiative.
13.B×b6 c×b6 14.N×a4 Bg5 15.Nc3 e4 16.Kh1
16.Rb1 Ne5 17.Nb3 Ng4 18.Qc2 Be3! = Nepo-Aronian 2017 1-0
16...Qd7 17.Rb1 Rad8 18.Nc4 Qf7 19.b3 e×d3 20.e×d3 f4
Black has more than enough compensation for the pawn.
An interesting pawn sacrifice to seize the initiative.
13.B×b6 c×b6 14.N×a4 Bg5 15.Nc3 e4 16.Kh1
16.Rb1 Ne5 17.Nb3 Ng4 18.Qc2 Be3! = Nepo-Aronian 2017 1-0
16...Qd7 17.Rb1 Rad8 18.Nc4 Qf7 19.b3 e×d3 20.e×d3 f4
Black has more than enough compensation for the pawn.
📘 Carlsen finds the best move in this complicated position.
34...Qe6!!
A multi-purpose move:
- Preventing White from playing Qa2.
- The passed d-pawn is stopped.
- Releasing the knight on f4.
- Preparing an excellent trap, for example, 35.Qe1?? R×h2+! 36.K×h2 Qh3#
35.Qb2 Bd8 36.Ng5 Qe8 37.Rb3 B×g5 38.R×g5 Ne6 39.Rg4 R×g4 40.f×g4 Qd8 41.Rh3? Qd5+ 42.Kg1 Qe4 43.Qb4 Rf6 0-1
34...Qe6!!
A multi-purpose move:
- Preventing White from playing Qa2.
- The passed d-pawn is stopped.
- Releasing the knight on f4.
- Preparing an excellent trap, for example, 35.Qe1?? R×h2+! 36.K×h2 Qh3#
35.Qb2 Bd8 36.Ng5 Qe8 37.Rb3 B×g5 38.R×g5 Ne6 39.Rg4 R×g4 40.f×g4 Qd8 41.Rh3? Qd5+ 42.Kg1 Qe4 43.Qb4 Rf6 0-1
📘 23...Be7??
Navara's carelessness.
23...Re7
24.R×h7! Rb8
24...K×h7 25.Ng5+ +-
25.Rc7 Bf6 26.Rb7 Nb4 27.R×b8+ K×h7 28.Rb7+ Kg8 29.R×a7+ +/-
Navara's carelessness.
23...Re7
24.R×h7! Rb8
24...K×h7 25.Ng5+ +-
25.Rc7 Bf6 26.Rb7 Nb4 27.R×b8+ K×h7 28.Rb7+ Kg8 29.R×a7+ +/-
📘 18...Bc8 19.Nb3!
A good prophylactic move to prevent Black from playing Re7 and e5.
19...Qf4
19...Re7 20.B×a6! +/-
20.Qc1!
With the aim of trading opponent's most active piece and preventing ...e5 lever.
20...Q×c1 21.Re×c1 +/-
A good prophylactic move to prevent Black from playing Re7 and e5.
19...Qf4
19...Re7 20.B×a6! +/-
20.Qc1!
With the aim of trading opponent's most active piece and preventing ...e5 lever.
20...Q×c1 21.Re×c1 +/-
📕Here the primary concept is control over the dark squares in the center. The light-squared bishops each cover their diagonal (b1-h7 and a2-g8) and do not contest each other. But the fight for d4, e5 and f4 is hard. The appropriate course for White, then, is to bring his pieces into this fight as quickly as possible. The logical way to do this is to start with the knights.
13.Nge2! Rc8 14.Bb1 Bxf4 15.Nxf4 Bg4 16.f3 Be6 17.Qd2 Qe7 18.Nb5 a6 19.Nd4+/=.
13.Nge2! Rc8 14.Bb1 Bxf4 15.Nxf4 Bg4 16.f3 Be6 17.Qd2 Qe7 18.Nb5 a6 19.Nd4+/=.
📕White is threatening to play 11 f4!, 12 Bxg7 and 13 Nf3 with complete control of the center. The knight has nowhere to go from e5 so Black has to act at once, using the only exposed piece White has – namely the bishop on d4. Note that White has good control over most of the light squares with the pawns on d5 and e4 working together with the bishop on e2.
10...c5!
This pawn sacrifice makes it possible for Black to use his slight lead in development to solve his problems.
11.Bxc5 Nec4 12.Bxc4 Nxc4 13.Qb3 Nxb2! 14.Qxb2 Qc7
Here the bishop is struggling on c5.
10...c5!
This pawn sacrifice makes it possible for Black to use his slight lead in development to solve his problems.
11.Bxc5 Nec4 12.Bxc4 Nxc4 13.Qb3 Nxb2! 14.Qxb2 Qc7
Here the bishop is struggling on c5.