ADecember 06 1961
Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, Wednesday, December 06, 1961
Liverpool’s most distinguished chess-player Gerald Abrahams is also a distinguished chess writer His “The Chess Mind” opened new vistas in what might I suppose be called the philosophy of chess and he has also to his credit at least one other chess book in a more routine vein. Now comes Technique in Chess (Bell, 18s 6d) which must stand somewhere between the orthodox and the exotic in chess literature.
In purpose it is clearly austere. It seeks to examine those necessary but not always sparkling passages of the game which depend on exactitude and information rather than flair and inspiration. But Mr. Abrahams himself is so much a player of flair that all his illustrations are illuminated with comments that arise not from bare technique but from chess imagination of a high order. If the effect of this is to make apparent rich potentialities in apparently routine positions that surely deserves our gratitude.
WHITE KNIGHT.
