Chess Career
He is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the Nootboom 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 +1 =1 against Viacheslav Ragozin on board 10.
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