{"id":1315,"date":"2025-05-10T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2025-05-13T22:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:21:56","slug":"a-game-with-a-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/10\/a-game-with-a-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"A game with a GM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png 375w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandmaster Keith Arkell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opportunities to play against Grandmasters don&#8217;t occur regularly for us Journeyman level club players. So I was particularly pleased to be drawn against Grandmaster Keith Arkell in round 3 of the Rhyl Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was even more pleased to hold the draw! I even wondered at one point if I might be able to get more but he is a stubborn defender. Game below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style='border: 0;' width='900px' height='600px' src='https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=FX\/eJVoWB0qLqW\/Ozz35WysGuYOb3s2jDZYD2NJQHzeOF\/IYTaDTW28mzJ8MkjwgKMsdDxURSVdG6miSbMVqhw=='><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to pop out board <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=FX\/eJVoWB0qLqW\/Ozz35WysGuYOb3s2jDZYD2NJQHzeOF\/IYTaDTW28mzJ8MkjwgKMsdDxURSVdG6miSbMVqhw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=FX\/eJVoWB0qLqW\/Ozz35WysGuYOb3s2jDZYD2NJQHzeOF\/IYTaDTW28mzJ8MkjwgKMsdDxURSVdG6miSbMVqhw==<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandmaster Keith Arkell Opportunities to play against Grandmasters don&#8217;t occur regularly for us Journeyman level club players. So I was particularly pleased to be drawn against Grandmaster Keith Arkell in round 3 of the Rhyl Open. I was even more pleased to hold the draw! I even wondered at one point if I might be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/10\/a-game-with-a-gm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A game with a GM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}