Champion'. Later that year, he won the Wellington College International Open with 7½/9, ahead of GM Nick Pert (7/9). In 2012 Arkell’s Odyssey, an autobiography, was published by Keverel Chess Books. Arkell won the 2014 European Senior Chess Championship in Porto. It was the first year the championship had been split into two separate age categories; 50 years plus and 65 years plus. He won the former and was later voted the English Chess Federation's Player of the Year for 2014. Arkell shared first at the 2014 World Senior (50+) Championship, in Katerini, with 8.5/11 losing on tiebreak to Zurab Sturua. In 2015 Arkell finished equal first in the Vienna Open, scoring 7.5/9 in a field of 465 players, 138 of whom were titled. He received second prize on tie-break. Arkell won the 2021 British online Championship with 7.5/9, a point ahead of runners up Michael Adams and Bogdan Lalic. In 2022 England won the World Senior (50+) Team Championship, and such was its dominance that four of its five team members, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Mark Hebden and Arkell himself won gold medals for the best performance on each of their respective boards. https://fide.com/news/1839 Later that year the team won the European title, with Arkell again collecting the gold medal for his board 2 performance. https://en.chessbase.com/post/european-senior-team-championships-2022-report In 2020, he authored a second book, Arkell's Endings (published by GingerGM). Playing style As White, Arkell prefers Queen Pawn openings. As Black, he usually meets 1.d4 with the Nimzo-Indian Defence and 1.e4 with the Caro-Kann Defence or French Defence. When playing the Caro-Kann, he is one of very few Grandmasters who regularly adopt the line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5!?. The leading chess magazine New in Chess christened this variation the "Arkell-Khenkin Line". He is widely considered to have exceptional skills in the endgame. In an interview in 2009 with Streatham and Brixton Chess Club, Arkell suggests that the great precision required in long, exacting wins by players such as Ulf Andersson and Anatoly Karpov is the highest art form in chess and that for many years it never occurred to him that the majority of players would not share his enthusiasm. In the same interview, he laments that a reputation for keeping a tight rein on games and grinding out wins on the UK weekend circuit to support an existence as a professional chess player has negatively influenced coverage of