Gerald Abrahams Quotes

United Kingdom, Chess Player
April 15, 1907 – March, 15, 1980.

Gerald Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister. He is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams–Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom Variation:

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

Gerald Abrahams
- Chess
- Master
- Mistress
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.

Gerald Abrahams
- To Do
- Strategic
- Tactic

Good positions don't win games, good moves do.

Gerald Abrahams
- Good
- Moves
- Positions
The idea comes before the logical argument.

Gerald Abrahams
- Idea
- Argument
- Comes
In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Gerald Abrahams