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| Jan-06-11 | | wordfunph: During one of his simultaneous exhibitions, GM Keith Arkell allowed fast losers to set up the pieces and start another game, and offering every player the choice of color. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | ughaibu: The Kosten case is reported in an exaggerated way. It's not an endgame with rook and bishop against rook and knight, no pawns, when the last pawn comes off it's a three move combination to win the exchange.
My memory of K.Arkell is of him tearing up his prize cheque, for the first MSO, and throwing it at Keene. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | wordfunph: another one for GM Arkell..
In rook and bishop against rook endgame, English GM Keith Arkell has apparently won 16 times out of 16. This ending has been known for many years to be a theoretical draw, but in
practice the defender frequently loses. |
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| Feb-10-12 | | wordfunph: "Perhaps the most strident advocate of the rising standards theory is GM Keith Arkell. He’s quite militant in his views and is of the opinion that players like Capablanca and Alekhine were barely 2400 strength. He thinks if they came back now, they’d struggle to beat IMs. He thinks the great Aron Nimzowitsch would barely scrape a 2200 rating. Controversial views, no doubt, but thought-provoking." - GM Danny Gormally
Source: Chess Monthly Feb. 2012 |
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| Feb-11-12 | | AlphaMale: What's Morphy? 1900? |
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Oct-10-12
 | | GIAaron: You've lost the plot Alphamale: Talent wise Morphy was arguably stronger than most players pre about 1940.I'd say he was more like 2400. For me Pillsbury is the one who catches the eye from those early days.
Remember this: Just because 800 Americans can currently run a mile faster than Roger Bannister ever managed in no way detracts from Bannister's achievement.
You can only fairly compare a player with his contemporaries. Of course standards continue to rise. True of chess, athletics and everything else. Bannister's and Capablance's objective standards were obviously way less than today's competitors, but so what! |
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Oct-10-12
 | | SteinitzLives: Retro ratings are a crock. Lots of meaningless speculation on the infinitely unknowable. Get a life, even if it means playing chess. |
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| Jan-08-13 | | Kikoman: Happy 52nd Birthday GM Keith Arkell. :D |
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| Aug-21-13 | | waustad: Today he's playing the 13 year old Zhansaya Abdumalik at the Vienna Open: http://www.members.aon.at/schach1/l... |
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| Aug-21-13 | | BlackFront: <Today he's playing the 13 year old Zhansaya Abdumalik at the Vienna Open..> Such posts rapidly assume the mantle of redundancy. Please desist this anti-social practice. |
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| Mar-17-14 | | weary willy: Congratulations to the European 50+ champion |
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| Mar-21-14 | | Doctor Aust: Yep, great result for Keith A winning the European 50+ Individual Championship in Portugal, ahead of the higher-rated Georgian GM Zurab Sturua. Arkell himself has said the games weren't that special (and mostly long) but his winning a probably drawn ending in round 8 in trademark style (R+B+P out-foxing R+4P) was maybe the key result. Anyway, good to be able to hail an excellent result for a very popular player. |
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| Nov-17-14 | | sonia91: = 1st and 2nd on tie-break, behind Zurab Sturua, at World Senior Championship (50+) 2014, held in Katerini, Greece. |
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May-17-15
 | | Penguincw: Congrats to Keith Arkell for taking bronze at the European 50+ Championship. The GM was the 3rd seed, and finished in 3rd. He actually finished in a 6-way tie for 3rd with 6/9, but took the tiebreaks, which I'm going to assume is average rating of opponents (2407). |
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| Jun-19-15 | | sonia91: The bio should also mention he was European senior champion in 2014 (over 50 section): http://www.fpx.pt/escc2014/index.ph... and team bronze medalist at 3rd World Senior Team Championship (over 50 section): http://en.chessbase.com/post/3rd-wo... |
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Nov-21-15
 | | Domdaniel: <BlackFront> -- <Such posts rapidly assume the mantle of redundancy. Please desist this anti-social practice.> I feel that your long-obsolete post from 2013 still deserves a reply. Many valuable posts have a certain built-in redundancy. Anything that alerts people to what is happening 'today' will quickly become irrelevant -- but is nonetheless helpful to those who see it on the day. Equally, many contributions to an ongoing debate soon become obsolete - but that's no argument against making them. My point is that CG posts are not just for historic reasons -- it is also valuable to take part in live debate. |
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Nov-21-15
| | Domdaniel: Incidentally, why isn't <GIAaron> mentioned in Keith's bio? |
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Nov-21-15
| | Domdaniel: <Fusilli> -- < "He is the winner of over 300 tournaments"? Assuming he started around age 10, this means about 8 tournaments per year. What kind of tournaments are being counted? His neighborhood's little league? > Fusilli is not a 'mindless vandal' as Keith/Aaron suggests, though it's easy to see why the confusion occurs. In fact, Fusilli is a strong Argentinian amateur player based in the USA. As such, he perhaps does not appreciate just how many weekend tournaments were held in Britain in the 1970s and 80s -- not to mention those in nearby countries such as France, Ireland and Holland. American-based players can be surprised to learn just how many playing opportunities were open to players in England. I can recall seeing Keith play in Cork. |
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| Feb-16-18 | | nocteus: Hi, I have read many times about his magical handling of the endgame, especially with rooks. But I did not find any collection about it? Any advise, either book or chessgames collection? |
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| Sep-10-20 | | skisuitof12: Belated information for Nocteus - Keith Arkell has just (Summer 2020) released his long awaited endgame book 'Arkell's Endings. |
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Sep-10-20
 | | MissScarlett: Seeing his name in the <Recent Kibitzing>, I surmised either it's <Arkell's Endings> or <Arkell's Ending>. Glad to know he's still with us...for now. |
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Sep-10-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Keith's speciality is King and Rook v King and Bishop endings, here we have none of his. He has won this 'drawn' endings an incredible number of times. I Know this because I relied on this on the site to show me a couple and stated on the ECF forum that Keith never played one. (OOPS!) I was very soon corrected. Some good statements and an in depth review about the book here: https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi... and here you can get a PDF sample.
https://gingergm.com/library/arkell...
That is from a crowd who do not hold back if they think a book is naff. If that lot say it's good, then trust them. Me? No. I won't get it. I'll never study it. I have my one book on endings (Keres Practical Endings.) which I'll open it next year when I'm 70....though I'll have to remember that I'm an old dog and this will be new tricks. *** |
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| Aug-10-21 | | Albertan: Arkell wins British online chess title at 60:
https://www.ft.com/content/2ca19cab... |
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| Jan-31-22 | | Albertan: Thé GM won thé open section of the 27th 4NCL Congress Open which was held between January 21st and January 23rd. Arkell scored 4.5/5.Thé final crosstable can be viewed at: https://chess-results.com/tnr606495... |
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Oct-19-24
 | | offramp: Arkell attacked Nigel Povah. https://x.com/SusanPolgar/status/18... |
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