ile ago yeah it it looked great for yavanka and i don't know what what has happened but why can't i take now on c5 let's have a look i believe i have to capture back with the root now i can probably take with the rook or queen but let's say i take with the queen actually yeah because you would like love to trade queens and then it will mean that you won't have to worry about my queen getting to f3 and but it's not so easy because your king from g1 will struggle getting to the game right even though the born is on a dark square the born is hanging i mean i'm but he didn't do this he played the other move which is rook takes c5 of course i mean you don't have to take with the queen he took with the rook which is probably better she played queen he said oh oh oh rook takes h5 check what it works it works oh no rook takes h5 check is end g takes h5 queen takes h5 check and if you block queen h6 queen f7 is mate in two and king g8 queen h8 that's it oh no oh no that is i mean if i saw that in two seconds bilal has to see it right oh no yeah definitely i mean it's just and you can't there there is no move it's it that's over oh just double check triple check how could things went so terribly wrong for the ladies awful in just 10 minutes everything it was insane just insane it all i don't get it it's it's it's it's crazy and he and he does it of course he does h5 and oh no and yuvanka already understanding it's over and queen takes f7 maybe she understood or i don't know it doesn't really yeah and she will resign now yeah and that's it and oh yuvanka in really terrible pain actually we predicted that that's gonna be a tough game yeah but yuvanka was doing really great after the opening yeah she was doing fantastic now that means just like that we've got bilal winning we've got ravi winning we've got hussein winning bobby cheng is a pawn up balash chonka is a pawn up it could be the seven three day it really could and i didn't think it would be possible given the positions but there has been a total collapse from the women's team and there's no explanation for it really because i mean everybody had a lovely day yesterday and you know uh yeah this is actually something i i really did not expect you know i thought you were just too optimistic and yeah nino is resigning i guess what what a game poor nino absolutely devastated for nino because i you know what i really wanted her to win today yeah she definitely deserved it and she could she could have been the one to win in 24 moves herself you know and suddenly she was a bit sloppy she didn't find the direct win and i'm i'm quite quite sad now and i see that nino and hussein they are discussing something but i believe hussein also understood that he was completely busted of course he understands yeah what a save and it's even it's not even a save it's a win yeah it's not even a half it's a full it's a full what we call the two point the two point swing basically for a team match let's carry on let's go back to balash chonka because that game has yet to reach uh the time control and balash has just got a crushing advantage here uh nino with uh just sorry not nino pier with uh one minute bishop e6 on the board balash has got um every trump in the position so is there h6 possible h6 might just be good because king takes h6 queen takes f6 threatens rook h5 mate oh yeah that's that's that would be terrible if a rook h5 would win one more game today yeah and balash with one minute 50 okay after h6 she can go king f7 and hold on a little bit but yeah so the question is do you need to go h6 yeah not sure not sure he's gonna do it isn't he he's gonna do it he's a bit nervous i see balash no he he's such a wow i mean he's a he's one of those guys huh he's the smooth the smooth operator g3 and just say okay make a move pier this is a very useful one because the king might go to g2 in some cases it's a good move what can you say yeah yeah it's it's just good it's just good chess it's professional chess yeah and it's very interesting that uh that all the all the guys are doing so well today nobody actually looks like they're in trouble anymore only eric eric was struggling let's check that game out well let's let's let's go there after because we've still got some games that that that is uh that is a clearly great position for marie but it's not clear that that she could win that well she probably has got really good chances but that's reach move 40 let's stay with this one rook d8 on the board and uh yeah perhaps she wants some there is no piece to jump on d4 maybe what else i mean i i don't know i mean you've got a lot of c5 a move you would be considering here for sure because then if the queen doesn't guard the a6 square i might go there with the rook bishop d5 maybe here no so you're still protecting it yeah so what what else um h6 could still be a move here even though after king of seven it's not that easy what about queen no queen a3 or yeah i was thinking about it but rook d2 i don't want to let you get active um i believe white should try to organize a past pawn so i have a b5 or c5 and then b5 something along those lines really yeah i think so no i was i i i didn't want to exchange it i wanted to actually just win c6 by force but maybe it's just not possible 45 seconds for ballash and not i can feel the nerves from his play and rook c5 was played was it no he goes c5 i mean i don't mind this move i think this is just fine yeah she will probably go for queen c7 or will she go to b7 no b7 queen b7 runs into b5 right right and then there are problems yeah she'll go queen c7 she does queen c7 and now they have to make the last move to reach the time control so i expect it to be a solid move right something like rook a6 not taking rook a6 a move like queen a1 also exists here yeah threatening to go for rook a7 and then win the queen but then perhaps black would and now you can go rook a6 for example um and now and now the point is that but wait it's not it's not over after rook a7 i've got rook b1 but i just go king g2 all right and now the the rook hand game is actually very bad yeah because you take this point and these two points are oops are running exactly yeah queen a1 is a smart one will he play it yeah he did i'm not hey i'm not so bad huh they they say in the chat that i can play chess sometimes huh all right yeah there you go queen a1 great move balash can get up and call himself down and by the way gunai has just i don't know what's happened but it looks like she's toast as well how so i mean let's have a look at it it looks it looks oh bobby played was two seconds on the clock he played king g2 but i didn't like king g2 but maybe she's okay now because he got there just nerves goodness me yeah f takes g3 but they still have to make one more move even though this one is going to be easy right well i mean i think now she should make a draw basically but uh well i mean bobby can still play of course he's got an extra pawn and a knight but but the bishop is good here yeah the bishop is good i i expect good night to hold here yeah if bobby doesn't lose on time ah but he just made the move king g2 which is actually the last exactly the last move ah so he's fine yeah bobby is fine he'll get 30 minutes all right what else is going on let's is there any match that is uh any game that hasn't reached move 40 no i believe they all did yeah okay they all reached move 40 so let's quickly check in on the gillian uh bylia against olga giri game and nah it's it's probably just just lost for a while oh no this is over i mean olga found a way to win a second pawn i told you that that g4 move looked very very risky to me oh and pia has resigned i think no yeah well i mean it was losing queen a1 or she lost on time or something no it couldn't be that she was losing queen a1 pia yeah we discussed it she resigned here pia it was queen a1 completely losing yeah she she she she probably found rook d7 rook a6 or something no she couldn't have resigned here why no she lost on time look it's she lost on time she forgot to make the last oh she forgot to make the last move well i don't i think the position is winning anyways i i don't think it's a big i don't imagine things could have gone more wrong than they did yeah i mean it it but pia was i mean balash played a really nice game he had control he's a control player he likes to uh always never lose sight of of of the position never overextend he just nicely he just plays in a nice pace i really like how he plays no it was definitely a very good game by chanka balash and unfortunately that means that the lady's team is going down uh minus four so far today but that's a huge score but bobby is not going to win now against gunai i don't think the only hope well there's hold on olgagiria is going to win and marisa bag could win so it could check her yeah yeah let's check so eric is oh eric is defending again a rook hand game with a pond down he's had a lot of rook endings isn't he yeah always he's always had to lose not to get so well for him no but this looks horrible this looks really bad yeah it should be lost because white's rook is very passive on a one if it would be the other way around let's imagine white's rook would be somewhere on the fifth rank b5 or c5 and black's rook would be on a6 then white would have very good drawing chances but like this with a pond down yeah i believe i believe eric will struggle a lot today and actually how interesting that uh two players who looked like they were playing for winning you know because i believe if he really wanted to make a draw marie wouldn't mind uh judging from her games from uh the first half of the tournament but he really wanted to have an interesting and spicy game and he attracted her into it but then somehow it didn't work out so well he lost control at some point and now i believe it will be very difficult for him to save this one that means that uh the ladies are likely to score two two wins today and then guiney versus bobby will possibly be a draw and then it will be a plus two score for man today which means that they will go ahead in the match by one point right they're definitely going ahead in the match today that's yeah that's for sure um the men will be winning but it's really critical you know but also i feel for pia because even though if she uh if she had a bad position losing on time is really unpleasant just forgetting you know and you could see that you know everything went wrong today for the ladies just everything yavanka blundered made irine had a just a bad game it looked like and oh yeah and nina from a totally winning position going down like that yeah awful yeah so uh that that might change the course of the match so far actually a lot of a big momentum swing i mean the men were uh they started badly rounds three and four and five three was good four was good five was normal and today really and the women are gonna have to uh dig very deep and be very uh but why this big difference do you think it's connected to the way they spent the rest day because it seems like the men are doing fantastically well after it and this is the other way around for the ladies i don't think it's to do with the rest day uh i just think it's to do with the individual pairings or just randomness basically uh interesting yeah that won't be an easy an easy spot to to go from after such such a difficult day yeah well i mean if olga wins and if uh marie wins only losing minus two on the day is not actually a huge no it's it's not but wait if then the ninos game would go the other way around then the match would be even yeah but it didn't it didn't and you know uh obviously losing uh and it's it's getting well we've still got a lot of games left so it's not totally critical yet um let's go on the game of uh julia yeah let's go there now has he got any drawing chances at all here after rook h6 because i mean i don't think so no two puns two puns are just too much and they are too far away from each other you know this f7 and b5 i believe even he should be quite quite careful not to get his rook trapped uh what did olga play rook h4 yeah i believe she yeah bishop d6 this is very logical now he protects the pawn on h2 and if i was black i would consider most like bishop to e6 actually with the threat of playing b4 and b3 because then the rook is covering the b4 square oh but she threw in a check here she played rook to e4 uh am i missing something uh why rook e4 ah perhaps she wants to go with the king to g4 yeah i like rook e4 yeah and also the bishop might come to e2 and protect the h5 pawn i don't think i don't think julian has chances to save this one but why are they playing so fast why are they playing on their minutes uh because they should have reached time control but it seems like they did not get the increment did they yeah because i believe they get it when they uh when they when they run out of time yeah so they've i mean they've both got an extra 30 minutes basically right okay so yeah this looks like pure suffering for for julian i i i don't expect the hold here um yeah erica is also suffering and guine will probably make a draw so she just played king to f3 not allowing black's king to comfortably go to do towards that pawn but now i can just give bishop e2 check exactly and after i say king f2 or king g3 doesn't really matter ah but wait i might not be able to play before here yeah because the bishop takes the rook takes and now take even this one is not easy to hold because of rook b2 but theoretically it's a draw yeah yeah but she's never gonna do that no definitely she's not gonna allow that one well she could play here after bishop b2 king f2 and move like bishop somewhere bishop d1 first and only then before because the rook cannot come in time to stop this pawn from running yeah i believe you know even even the bishop end games might be might be winning because these two pawns are just too far so if we imagine the rook's go off the board it's still well let's say like rookie six here for example all right um wait after bishop d1 let's put a move like king g3 rookie six rook takes king takes the king is just climbing towards this pawn and then even if the bishop manages to stop it then i can go exactly around that and normally the rule yeah normally the rule is if there are three files separating the pawns um then it's winning because you cannot really keep that uh the bishop on a diagonal so that it stops both pawns right exactly and then plus you've got the additional pawns still remaining so it's yeah it's not even a it's not even close right so uh did she play i don't know she's taking her time they've got their extra half hour now yeah and uh where else can we go so we've got this go let's go back to the bobby ching uh versus gunai gain yeah he still has the extra pawn but it's a pawn you know which even if we trade pawn for pawn and then with black i sacrifice uh the bishop for the other remaining pawn rook and knight versus rook it's quite an easy draw on on their level it really is so but the question is the point is that you can't get rid of the pawn like let me ask you this question if magnus carlson was playing white here yeah how often do you think gunai would make a draw out of 10 games 10 oh no no because i genuinely don't see a way for white to try to do anything here i disagree if you say that she's got 30 seconds only on the clock starting from this position and she has to play it against magnus then i think magnus would have i don't know maybe three games out of 10 but i mean let's try let's try this one i'm no it's not 10 out of 10 i promise you magnus is magnus is one more drawn positions and it's so drawn like this yeah sure okay rook h5 for example wait it is it is black to move i'd like to move i could actually play bishop d6 okay bishop d6 i have to be careful about this one so i'll go rookie three and how are you actually making this knight come back we'll see i'll need to find a way i can put the pawn on g5 wait i can just play rook d8 it would be i should just be careful not to put perhaps the pawn on h5 because then you might be able to attack it and the bishop won't be able to protect it so let's say i play just to move like h6 to see how you make progress okay let's try okay knight knight b6 let's try your point is that after bishop c5 you've got this intermediate rook f3 check all right how should i continue should i keep the rook here or should i put it on e8 let's try to force you okay rook f3 check king g7 okay let's try knight uh 95 95 maybe rook f8 rook f8 rook b3 let's say and let's say i just stay with rook f7 king g4 you're going to h5 but i will have rook f5 still all right i could even play a move like rook a7 okay rook b6 bishop where bishop b5 rook e6 let's try i don't know actually no sorry yeah i'll go rook e6 yeah so bishop d4 let's say okay my point is that after king h5 i still find with rook a5 so here i'll play knight f4 knight f4 where are you going well i'm moving around you know i'm trying to make my job easier all right so um rook b7 let's say okay i'll go uh rook uh rook a6 okay threatening this one bishop e5 okay knight h5 check king h7 okay let's try king f5 bishop g7 kind of running out of ideas yeah i believe if you manage to bring the king to h5 probably i i would say this is my i mean obviously that was just us playing blitz and randomly going off on a tangent but i would actually say that in this position here i would expect gunai to draw less than 50 of the time really yes against magnus against magnus and against bobby and against bobby i expect her to draw 75 percent to 80 percent of the time yeah well actually you've got a point here because we have to consider the fact that people get tired at some point and if we remember the game um the last game from uh before the free day uh where sabino won against olgagiria what looked like an end game with huge drawing chances for olga uh with olga just blundering in one move then yeah you could see that's happening here as well but yeah somehow i really i really believe that gunai at her best you know she wouldn't lose this kind of positions to anyone but i'm not sure how she feels right now i don't know how you know because she lost a few games she might be a bit disappointed so yeah you might have a point in that yeah and you know you only need a construction where you know the knight lands on f5 and the knight and rook combination is very unpleasant and if you make an inaccuracy suddenly you are under pressure and the and the position could get out of control so so well i mean i i still think she's big favorite to make a draw but i really think that uh she actually played this bishop d6 yeah he's gonna go rookie three here yeah the point is that uh it's very difficult to get to the king if we imagine in this position the knight on f5 the rook on the third rank and the king on h5 then yeah you've definitely made a knight a nice progress then the pawn goes to g4 but i i think it's quite difficult to achieve that one all right let's see if bobby makes any progress now in other news who else have we got going on well has erics rosen's uh chance is improved and the answer is uh possibly possibly yeah i mean the exchange of pawns there feels like a pretty good result but but it's quite quite easy for black to actually make progress in this position because you place the rook somewhere let's say if it's my move in this position i just play rook f4 yeah cutting cutting off the king and then i bring the king towards b4 then eventually i'm gonna win this pawn i agree could just be over actually perhaps oh yeah the problem is that you cannot really come away in the same direction with this king because the pawn on f2 will be hanging and if you move it to f3 probably it will be what erics gonna try because at least the rook from a3 will protect f3 and maybe i can come with the king but there perhaps i could start moving the f and g pawns creating a passer and it's quite difficult to to defend this one yeah totally agree no i i don't see any practical chances here for eric i mean also marie is an experienced class grandmaster exactly who has played many an ending and this is i wonder you know did did eric just wake up the beast in in marie because she was making a lot of draws may this change the course of events for her if she wins this one well i think he went really he went for a very high risk thing and at some point he played this d6 move which i didn't like um i think he was a bit just premature basically and well i like eric's move he played king f3 somehow not allowing black to to play ruca 4 so so easily perhaps marie should have played actually ruca 4 on the previous move because here after king g3 she could have she could have gone actually for it and then bring the king it might have been slightly more precise but even so the king cannot really go too far because it will have to guard the pawns so probably here a ruca 4 anyway you can go ruka 4 you can go uh you can go anywhere rukh 4 is an idea also all right rukh 4 is actually a nice move threatening to play rukh 3 yeah but you will have to play king e2 i guess king e6 i know the king comes all right let's try to hold this one what if i play what should i play at all uh let's say rukh e3 check king d5 and rukh f3 rukh f4 is that right i've got to be careful is it winning if no i think you might run into some troubles if you if you give up the f6 pawn yeah what about rukh f4 king e5 is fine of course but let's just try rukh f4 i'm just curious so you're saying that here all right so king f3 king 5 yeah king e5 but i also want to just quickly check that king c4 doesn't work king c4 king f4 king b4 you know it's the f pawn so i might be um it might be a bit king b5 uh yeah that not on b4 because you get checked f4 a4 king e7 a3 5 a2 f6 a1 yeah and f7 now this is the one where i think the king is too close actually queen e5 check because you have to get to the corner yeah and now king c6 you're too close check on uh no wait wait wait i screwed it up i screwed it up go back sorry i screwed it up a1 queen f7 try queen sorry queen e5 check king all right maybe maybe not king e8 king c6 oh that's the way queen d7 mate sorry that's it well done the king is too close king c6 yeah cute oops not that one just the mate is happening yeah well known so even that might win but that's a lot of calculation involved and you really need that no but i mean either it wins or either it wins or it doesn't right but i mean this isn't just never gonna happen anyway because she will never she'll never risk throwing it away like that yeah definitely she actually played king e6 immediately here which also makes sense of course but that was yeah a funny a funny pun end game yeah but i was curious that after rook f4 in that in that variation uh rook takes f4 g takes f4 king f3 king f king e5 might just be easily yeah it's it's probably okay i will have to go no it's just easily easily winning yeah no but we just wanted to illustrate yeah even if you go like uh completely completely in another direction you could still win that even with so many imprecise moves because actually it gave white some hope to survive that right yeah by the way i see at the corner why jillian has got that ending we were talking about where they trade rooks they traded rooks and let's check that one out um well this one is is is really just not even uh how or is it i don't know she will just go away with the bishop bishop f1 okay king the uh bishop f1 yeah no i'm pretty sure this is uh this is a theoretical win you even have the h pawn of the right corner you know i mean the bishop is of the right corner so even if you manage to give the bishop for these two pawns it's still lost so um yeah perhaps there might be some you know and she actually went for bishop f1 yeah that's the correct move yeah yeah i see i see close to zero zero chance and wow gunai has set up an incredible kind of concept here which i completely didn't see oh wow the knight is trapped is it so if we go back yeah let's go to that gunai game if bobby had so gunai played here rook to a8 yeah he had to go knight be six here why didn't he why didn't he go knight be six i rook a three oh yeah yeah that's the point very this is clever and now you cannot really go away and avoid the trade of the rooks because then the g3 pawn is falling oh yeah that was a very clever right that's really if that works then i'll take everything back because if that's if that's a forcing variation where you can't actually but is it after rook a6 he just played rook to f3 and now oh the knight comes to f6 sorry i'm not sure perhaps there i have some bishop g3 tactics after king where um good question because if you go king g6 i might go rook f6 check myself king g7 and now here maybe i just play a move like h5 oh oh that is a nice trap you want to play h6 and then my king will be very uncomfortable and if you play h6 it's uh yeah h6 all right then you have rook g6 now rook g6 king f7 and then i can get oh because otherwise it's made yeah well yeah yeah this is made exactly oops so you have to go king f7 and now at least i have knight e5 check wait you can't take on it sure i can take the pawn but i just wanted to release my knight sure knight e5 and then for yeah and if you go there now knight c4 is completely winning immediately yeah right so actually i i'm sorry i i i take it back um after rook a3 so king g6 might be already already in precise so king e6 but now i can just go knight f6 and my knight has left the building what about rook a3 now i can take and take on h7 that's the point yeah right the two so the two pawns exactly takes knight takes it might be still not easy to to win this no that's easy it's easy yeah it's easy all right the two pawns is really easy with the knight so i have to be careful after knight to f6 then what should i play well you should probably play something like h6 maybe i could go for rook a7 actually i don't want to move this pawn unless i'm forced because now maybe i'm threatening some rook f7 at some point okay but i'm gonna go knight e4 threatening rook f6 check sometimes threatening rook f6 check what and again i cannot play rook a3 because of knight g5 check that's frustrating now all right let's say i play actually h6 here i go knight e4 and now king e5 i'm actually a bit worried that even knight e6 might work at cases yeah because the rook endings are really bad with your king cut king g4 right now the king comes to h5 actually i might still be able to draw this one no i think it should be probably not draw yeah oh do you i don't you don't think no what about move like rook ah rook f6 gets into rook e3 what about something like okay king h i need to somehow get the g pawn for the h1 but i'm not you're never getting that you're never getting that yeah maybe rook a6 okay king h5 let's say king e4 okay on i no rook f7 this is over because even since you go to g7 well not even that i can just go g4 g5 and i'm i'm i'm getting all right i'm getting my my lucena so i it's it's it's bad i think it's bad i think it's you know after rook f3 king e6 knight f6 this is no there should be something come on it cannot be lost like that of course it can no yes i mean it's not lost but it's very unpleasant all right so let's try it again rook a7 94 okay let's say i'm just i'm just i'm just what yeah there is no i'm just that's the point let's say bishop e7 bishop e7 okay trying to sort of guard these squares okay i like it i like it i like it i do like that move now if you try something like king g4 maybe i could go but it's so interesting so if you go king i was thinking rook a5 not rook a4 okay all right does it make a difference rook a4 rook f4 but maybe then king e5 i don't know all right should we try rook a4 that yeah sure why not i wonder if i can just go rook f4 here though yeah this was what i thought maybe king king e5 95 but but what no yeah ah no you're missing ah no you're not i was thinking that after she takes a four if i had the move king e4 then after knight h7 there is bishop takes h4 i get the pawn but unfortunately i don't hear but wait i cannot do anything i'm sorry okay she went rook a so we got this in the game so nine of six rook a7 is is actually on the board and uh yeah actually the plan which she chose might it still should be a draw no i think i think i played it well here um but after king g4 perhaps not rook a4 okay you want to go rook a5 okay now let me ask you about 95 i think 95 has to be should be a draw should be should be but is it how easy a draw is it okay 95 let's see i i want to use this at the very uh sort of last resort now but here i have probably these ideas of the pawn end game now rook a7 okay king h5 and rook f7 or wait i just lost it the pawn end game is lost actually yeah 114 end game is lost yeah because this pawn on g3 is still there right exactly and here you just go for g6 exactly all right so i cannot afford a pawn end game all right then whatever drawing ideas oh wait rook g7 okay um i'll play rook f6 check and now it's very important where do i place my king normally you should go for the active move in the rook end games and not to stay passive but i'm not sure probably it's not the case here king h6 immediately wins i mean not immediately but yeah and now just rook a6 or something yeah rook a6 is good yeah sad one yeah you're just a bit offside here it might be actually winning then i'm not sure how to defend this position exactly i don't know the best if but if you go active king for example rook f6 check sorry where yeah like here so rook a uh maybe oh wait we are being silly here okay there is rook a1 okay and you are not winning this one rook f6 check king uh king e5 rook h6 now now rook a7 this is a better version yeah much better one but even this you know there are some lines i can go let's say for example king h5 even this i'm not sure you're drawing really no this should be a draw really okay wait i'm thinking show me the money show me the money oh wait i i will come up with it so i need to place my king fine so i cannot actually go to f5 because then after rook f6 check you've got king h6 exactly so i have to make a neutral move like rook b7 and then your plan is to go g6 at some point no my plan is i want to improve first i'm gonna go g4 first maybe not g4 maybe just uh let's try rook a6 rook a6 yeah what about rook b1 now king uh king h6 no then i just uh what do you do rook check yeah ah king g7 rook h5 or king f5 but i also have king f5 king f5 rook h6 is nothing no no i will just take the g5 point okay i've got i've gone wrong there okay so not but you could uh you could play here you shouldn't allow me to go on b1 i believe i was thinking that you should make g6 yeah i yeah maybe maybe maybe i can but it doesn't feel like what about g4 g4 is interesting let's say i still keep keep now let's try rook uh rook uh rook f6 rook f6 now i go anyway here yeah no i thought that you should try somehow make g6 is g6 not working here because i must take and now i go and now you should take with the rook i believe no king is also interesting i mean it's very close yeah and it's gonna be no the the rook and pawn is gonna be dry i believe why no i don't know king g5 rook a8 or something and then you've got rook g6 i don't know it's close because the king is weird yeah the king the king is strange definitely i don't know you can lose these positions quite easily i mean that's the good news for bobby is that he's got all of these possibilities of getting into these rook and pawns which are definitely not simple yeah that would actually be good news for him if he gets into some end games with practical difficulties for black because you and i will go down on time and um probably he should try one thing another and then make her be really low on time and only then go for a different end game change the character of it at least that would be what i'd try and he actually played the 94 moves yeah we might actually get this in bishop e7 and as i said i bobby feels like the sort of player who doesn't want to go 90 5 check here it feels like he's got a more clever play this one yeah but this was what we were looking at i'm so curious how this one is after 95 but i don't think he's gonna do it he's good he's a more slow player no but if it's if he knows it's winning he's gonna play it because it just would mean a win on the spot but you see black's king is bad on e6 because it's cut now it should have been on g7 yeah if the king is on g7 here it's a different story i think but i think he's gonna go like i'm trying to think can he play a better move here let me think but we actually didn't find a way to to hold the rook hand game let's see king g4 yeah he plays king g4 improving he goes for the safer this is this is correct yeah rook a5 or rook a4 that's actually our line yeah it's gonna be our line sure all right we'll get back to it let's let's check how uh let's check yeah let's check eric quickly nothing has really changed there oh so he's thinking so they got this position with the rook on f4 the king on e2 that would have eventually happened and uh yeah eric's taking a lot of time he's probably realizing uh he he cannot hold this yeah it looks it looks hopeless for eric and jillian as well is is very close to to losing and um i'll tell you what we'll do we'll go for a very quick break and uh we'll be back it looks as the games have still got some legs in them i mean the eric game jillian they're gonna be playing for a while longer so we're gonna go for a very very quick break and when we come back we may have an esteemed guest in the studio uh so we won't be too long so we'll see you in just a few minutes maria you had a quick draw today with sabino tell us something about it uh today my preparation was really good i managed to check many lines this morning and probably my opponent wasn't in the mood to play and he he he was okay with the draw but for me it's also strange to struggle with black pieces therefore we made only 17th moves because sabino's won three in a row before this he's the top scorer yes true he's strong and especially this tournament i think he's leading among all the all the other players and you're one of the top scorers on the on the women's team so this is top board today yes looks like okay let's have a look at the game okay maria let's have a look at your game today it was a slav defense what happened next yes i i played night bd7 and i always make this move at this position yeah this is standard slav oh this happens sometimes okay so we look at all the standard moves in the slav variation i think that my opponent didn't prepare the eighth smooth e5 he told me after the game about it and it's really hard when uh you are not prepared to play with the opponent who is prepared for this okay so it's understandable is it is this a minor variation of the slav do you think i think he has the dc is this is the main move and of course some bishop c4 b5 and then white chooses between bishop d3 or bishop 2 but e5 is an interesting line and they white what should know how to create problems here yeah yeah so did he have a long thinking or i think he knew the main line the main lines but i mean to create problems it's necessary to know the side lines of course yeah yeah okay so capture capture e4 another possibility was to play bishop uh or knight b5 sorry yeah knight b5 like bishop b8 de but of course e4 is also possible which is quite an unusual position in any opening really to have all four center pawns all together in the center it looks nice yeah okay e d knight xd5 knight xd5 and i think after h6 it is a critical moment for white they have plenty of moves here like h3 rook d1 b3 also yeah they can play whatever they want but black should equalize i think okay so it's quite a nice uh but my opponent went for the line where we exchange the queens yeah yeah yeah now the pawn is hanging so it's necessary to defend it checkmate threat yes queen h5 to play and after bishop h7 we change the queens does he have any any alternative to queen f5 otherwise this bishop will be trapped of course yeah okay so all this happens your opponent offers a draw yes he offered a draw and the position is pretty much equal after knight h6 so you've broken his streak of three straight wins yes they go draw with black it's possible to say so so it's a it's a good thing for the for the team i guess when you have black uh in general it's black uh playing with black is harder so the draw is a good result especially when the opponents have equal ratings have you looked at the other games did you check the other games uh only a little bit but it's more convenient for me to check with the screen rather than yes rather than just looking around the board yeah okay thanks very much maria the sexes in the router and we've got grandmaster no internet master all right my international but master but thank thank you in advance you've definitely played today like a grandmaster i have to say thank you looks like a very smooth victory right just a second sorry guys well i don't know how smooth it was because at some point i i felt that i let the big part of the advantage go away but it was still uh comfortable for me so uh i played the the alpine sicilian for the first time in my life now i can tell that it was my plan against maria two runs before because i had no idea against the swashing off so okay it's a playable line and the the line we got was what i checked the last so usually i go to lunch at half past one and it was like five minutes before when i realized i haven't checked this line and i have to and it's probably i think one of the most critical lines against the the alpine so and all credit goes to my norwegian friends ian sarbassian christiansen who had a chest of a course and i used this one oh really so you used his course today yeah uh because like main line is d4 here or classical lines sorry cd and then then d6 and it's quite hard not to crack so instead i i decided to play his line bishop c4 and okay i checked it in five minutes so i can show you the the main line i think queen d6 is one of them right yeah and the point is that in the game the e5 pawn was quite weak so instead black could play first bishop g4 to to bring the bishop out of the punch and only then play e6 so h3 bishop h5 rookie one and okay 95 i can just take and it's bishop f3 queen one so i think the best is black could either play slowly with e6 bishop e7 but i get the same plan with b3 and maybe a slightly better structure so castle is like main move b3 and knight sorry i think queen f6 and i tried to show but i cannot recall the whole 93 95 is the main 95 i still take and if black goes for knight takes i can just sorry i can just sacrifice the queen bishop d1 and i have really good compensation and my next move bishop d5 almost trapping the queen so wow that's a really interesting line and i have to say that being myself an alapin player from time to time i i might want to check that course out yeah yeah so instead black plays b5 and now if i move the knight knight c3 is stronger so bishop e4 bc queen 2 and at the end there will be some perpetual 95 g4 and it's crazy stuff so but okay if someone plays this with black okay i can only congratulate for the draw all right uh what about the e5 move did you did you know anything after it not much i think i i remember the plan that i have to break the punch and with b3 some 93 and then it should be good it's okay castle must be natural what about here because we thought that bishop takes d6 looks more natural yeah that was my first thought especially that pia played the queen this e5 first so i was like okay the logical follow-up would be to take with the bishop either d3 or d4 maybe d3 is more forcing because d4 there is the option of cd just one line i want to show is that if she castles at the very least i can win a pawn with bishop a7 so instead yeah okay let's say d3 takes and it's not easy to castle of course now so let's say some bishop queen exchange doesn't give too much so queen e2 and once again you can see the same problem that the e5 pawn needs protection so some some plus so queen d6 was played b3 must be natural bishop e7 and i think rookie one was a clever way to start because okay i can start with queen e2 but one point is that if bishop g4 comes h3 black takes whenever black takes it's fine for me but at least i think i managed to take back in one go so i don't have to play queen e2 first and the other point is that cb ab that i left my other point that i left my queen on d1 is that now i can either play d4 or even bishop a3 no yeah i think i was going to play d4 first because if i come here don't you win a pawn here as well i'm not sure queen f6 bishop takes e7 yes queen e2 doesn't i know what you want 95 yes and you i'm getting mated here i'm not sure it's made but yeah at the very least there is knight f3 and okay i don't want that so yeah i can play queen e2 instead here but i think better for me is to play d4 first because it's really forcing she takes and now this one yeah and okay yeah let's say something like this queen d4 is probably queen d4 because you know a lapin and games are usually somewhat better for white so queen d4 and small plus i want to play against this knight on on b6 yeah and what about queen c7 in the game you played d4 anyway yeah i i thought about knight e3 also trying to bring the knight to b5 but actually it doesn't bring to myself actually i believe that was the first engines line uh at least it yeah yeah i believe so and how about castle how do i follow up uh not not sure actually uh perhaps uh perhaps something with d4 now and then the knight can ye and then uh then knight b5 intermezzo yeah i thought so but queen this queen d7 yeah maybe it's something similar to what i have just shown but here i already wanted more maybe i i don't have more but d4 she has to take i guess 94 she cannot really take because next move by a bishop f4 and it's crushing so she castled c6 and here i think like what i would want to play is to play queen somewhere and then c4 and bring the bishop to b2 yes but i cannot do it because queen d3 okay f5 never really worked g6 so here my king is not on h5 so i could play theoretically c4 because if i can cut the knight out uh that's great yeah but then there is bishop f6 and i felt that uh i have other priorities compared to this because if the bishop gets back then the bishop f5 also comes with tempo all right so here everything looked quite smooth for you g6 queen f3 knight to d5 um bishop h6 root d8 yeah it's only move because i don't know if you check this position rookie it is losing actually uh actually we didn't why why is it c4 knight b4 queen f6 oh wow that's that's very pretty and now there are issues on the back rank right because f6 running to rook e8 maybe otherwise you can't really defend against it yeah yeah so or any other knight moves runs into knight f6 and other than that i just win win a point i see so rook d8 forced yeah and here lauren's told me before i came to the studio that 92 is other other possibility and actually i considered it but i was like if i can get this c4 and queen c3 and all the weaknesses in her position then uh then i must go for it although 94 92 i go for 94 then c4 knight f6 it was really tempting to go for for this one as well i think i i see nothing wrong with this one so nothing wrong but i was like okay it's it's more forcing tonight right knight b4 and here okay other option is to prevent the idea that could have happened in the game but i think i give too much time for her to consolidate with bishop f5 and right so you played you played i think very very well up to uh actually the last point so bishop b4 a5 did you think that she had any better uh chances to compare to what she played yes we we found out one critical point was here probably almost impossible move queen e5 oh wow that looks so that looks very risky because yeah for like i don't know three reasons one doesn't work because bishop d5 95 right and uh compared to the the game that could have happened knight cannot take on e7 because there is a background mate otherwise it would be fine so i could play bishop f3 i don't play for structural one more structural advantage because uh if i take then there is a weakness on e5 i play for a time but i think she has just king f7 and i have no follow-up clear follow-up and yeah knight does a really nice job defending on b4 right so my main idea was i think to take and actually the point is that let's say i play knight d2 trying to bring it to f3 but then there is bishop f5 and i cannot take twice on e5 because there is bishop f6 so knight d3 knight c2 coming so my love it was a better yes yeah yes we what i wanted to play lost was to play rook a5 first because if bishop f5 and i take with the other rook at the end so that's that's fine but there is a very cute tactic i think it works that there is knight d3 bishop bishop takes and now bishop b4 and everything is hanging oh wow so white should play something like yeah rook d1 and then bishop f5 and black is very much in the game so probably i have something better i didn't see but okay to queen to play queen e5 you have to calculate a lot of lines so right so other than that later on in the game did you feel there were any other chances she played a5 here knight d2 i was already really happy here i made a mistake in a sense that nice on screen that i spent 70 minutes on knight f3 which i wanted to make in 17 seconds instead but i was like i can play rook e2 then i double and whenever she takes on e4 i take back with the knight but somehow he didn't really want to work out for me for maybe i just hallucinated some nonsense but rook f3 also seemed like a nice move yeah the issue i had with it that bishop f8 was i thought and we discussed that she could play c5 and it's similar to the game that what i wanted to play what i was my first thought is just to play rook e3 then double i defend against threats on d3 and i don't see how i win but i don't see how how she improves her defense just play okay h4 some alpha zero stuff and how she defends right the pawn on f6 is quite weak and the king is a bit exposed yeah and also i was a bit up on time so it's a pleasant very pleasant situation so rook f8 and yeah here the issue is that maybe it seems anti-positional but f5 is some sort of a threat right so knight d4 seemed like a good move and after rook 8 bishop f3 seems like your pieces are doing very well yeah and here i think instead of queen d7 she could play maybe it's your line rook e1 and then queen f7 or what we discussed is just to bring the bishop back yeah this was also what i was trying to make work bishop c8 in different scenarios but it seems like she's still struggling to bring it to the best positions right yeah for sure but next move rook e5 and once again it's not so easy so what i played in the game knight c2 here it's she's like too tempy up compared to the game so it still must be somewhat better for me but nothing decisive and after that uh yeah i you have this really great line that uh if i take on a5 then it's losing because queen d4 first it's important right queen b4 and c5 and i have no good moves oh wow because uh if she starts with taking here uh sorry rook takes then it's a mistake because if knight d3 i can exchange queen e6 maybe then there is even rook e8 at the end so i'm not sure but uh again she takes on d4 i take back and now you miss the rook on e8 there is no c5 but instead she starts like this queen before c5 and i have to give up some material because like i would have to play i don't know queen impossible moves but i will lose my rook i think so so you played rook d1 instead yeah rook d1 queen c7 and here i think uh it's a good moment to play knight c2 because if black could get her queen to e5 and then to c5 she can stabilize but knight c2 and she's not in time and around here i think we discussed in several moments that she could play c5 and try to sacrifice the pawn and get a heavy piece hand game where there is a drawing tendency so let's but she but she did not play c5 she she continued way through yeah yeah she she gave up her a5 pawn but was left with a bishop on basically a pawn on b7 so like let's say i just want to show that something like like this is uh black would be really happy if she could put his pawn back to f7 right uh but okay it's not the case and she could do it later uh okay let's say even here maybe i don't know what was the last point where she could gave the pawn uh because here i guess her idea was that c5 was uh an idea that that it's always in the air and then i want to take the pawn right but of course her idea was to put the bishop on b5 and here it's not easy to to break through yeah so you played here look to a2 queen b6 i have all the time of the word so what about the final position if you could get to that one did she did she lose on time there that was a really strange situation because i made move 40 i stepped up and went for a walk and came back and i saw that she made no moves but got the time on the clock so there was a problem probably with the clock setting that uh and then came the arbiter and said that she didn't make move 40 so and what do you think about the final position if we could just get to it do you think black still has any chances to hold because we actually liked this move queen a1 a lot as after rook d7 there can be rook a6 yes yeah i think that's that's lost because uh as the modern saying goes i threaten with the russian thing which is invasion with rook a7 so there is no way even pia said that when she realized she lost some time that it's all over now so i saw rook ba to be the best chance because as you mentioned if uh rook d7 i have rook a6 and after bishop d5 only way to to save the pawn you have no good way to to take back so i thought rook b8 was somewhat better because if rook a6 i think she can take so instead i was like it's move 41 so i can decide what i play but it must be winning that i play rook a7 i take maybe i can include a6 first probably with rook on the on the board you never take so first i include uh and okay this must be winning so right because b5 is coming and then eventually the king is also a bit in trouble right pawn it's fixed on line squares i just so i want to show one variation uh that was quite uh yeah here if she goes for bishop f5 i don't know what would be the reason but it's quite uh i think beautiful that i can play h6 if she takes queen f6 and if there is no back rank make then actually i made so okay at least there is no rook h5 mate which would be the case without it probably that that's why i thought that uh bishop f5 is an option so she plays king f7 and then i can take on f5 all right and then bishop h5 bishop h5 and it's either mate or or i win the bishop so all right so a very nice game like i was saying when i was uh off the meek you played like a grandmaster today and congrats on that do you have any gm norms one one one i have and i think i missed by half upon twice so so are you hoping to get one here in this tournament uh well first of all it's uh the main point is a team event so i would be happy to read the team wins uh then let's say i make norm and the team is second but uh okay why not both so i will try all right so great to see you being so optimistic thank you for your analysis uh it seems like your team is having a great day so far it seems like you're gonna be winning with quite a good score uh best of luck for the next games and uh let's let's have a view of the playing call and be back shortly and number six of battle of the sex is just a couple of games left uh while uh ballash was going on for his game uh the result we had expected oligogiria did convert her winning uh opposite color bush bending meaning at least there's a point on the board a full point for the women today and with two games remaining it's not going to be the only point because marie sebag is completely winning against eric rosen um in fact i see well it's just a very easy win here marie in the in the existing position so eric is gonna lose and um that means there'll be one game left bobby chang uh king g3 good move played by marie sabag here uh just threatening mate and after king f1 the idea is that she wants to go rook f2 check king moves and then rook takes f3 and the two pawns are uh just a very easy win you don't even have to think anymore right so well yeah we're expecting this one uh yeah eric eric can resign now right yeah eric and you can't take on f5 obviously because it's mate in one so right so he plays king f1 yeah and you just go rook f2 and you can play on autopilot there because you can't you can't actually do anything too bad um so disappointing for eric you know losing a lot of these endings but marie definitely will have deserved the win today yeah she has played some really nice moves in the opening it seemed like she were she was in trouble so uh very very well played by marie and indeed she goes for a rook to f2 check i believe we'll see the variation which you suggested on the board yeah just don't make your life difficult when you're tired and when you've had a long stressful game like this with you had to work very hard uh you just make your life as easy as possible there's no there's no there's no added points for being pretty it's just uh you know winning prettily is is just uh an extravagance yeah it's an extravagance it's it's just much easier and you know you take on f3 rook takes a4 and then you can literally just play rook b3 threat and mate and and then the pawns run and then the pawns run yeah there's just zero chance gunai on the other hand let's go to her game because she has still got some work to do playing against bobby chang i feel as though gunai's position has improved somewhat being able to have the pawn fixed on the h5 square but it is on a light square and if a light if a knight lands on f4 sometimes sometimes you can just lose that pawn on the other hand it will be difficult to land the knight there because my bishop's gonna be on e5 probably um on the next move after king g6 i expect that to be played because the king wants to be closer to the pawn right yes uh so gunai's taking her time i'm not sure is she really considering king g6 it can't be the case right probably not i mean the king should stay closer to the pawn but then again it's i mean i'm not sure how much of a difference it makes right um so okay gunai with three minutes and bobby with three minutes i think this game has still got another she does go to g6 i think this game has still got another 20 minutes half an hour in it actually definitely definitely if if not more actually yeah it could be more yeah but uh i'm a bit surprised actually to see gunai struggling uh that much during the last few rounds because well she's a really a really good player she is actually a star of women's chess because she has progressed a lot she has had a great performance in last year's women's grand prix here in jubraltar where she took actually the third place and uh it's been uh it's been a tough event for her so far yeah it has it has she definitely has to hold this hand game in order to receive some kind of a confidence boost and then tomorrow with white perhaps it might be slightly easier for her to uh to handle that one because normally it's more difficult to play with black against a well-prepared opponent right sure yeah and bobby now um trying to think of a construction obviously the knight is an ideal on d2 but uh i don't know i don't see actually how how he can try to maybe something like knight f1 knight e3 but after knight f1 perhaps i've got bishop d4 yeah so my point was that after knight f1 i want to try and bring it to f4 but here black can stop can stop this by playing bishop to d4 and the knight on f1 will actually be a bad piece so uh yeah what else do you see another route for i mean just knight c4 knight c4 so how are you gonna get to f4 well i can go the same route knight e3 knight g2 knight d5 and so on so bishop d4 let's say okay and oh i've got to be careful that i don't run into bishop g1 right yeah bishop g1 and then rook h2 would be would be a slight okay i've always got g4 but it's an immediate draw right so actually i don't know how or why bobby allowed this pawn to get to h5 so easily felt like somehow the king is already on the other side because it was cut right right he plays rook d3 king to f5 yeah and this is this is great defense by gunai she's so showing really excellent defense right so uh actually eric tried a stalemate idea i think we will go uh to to his game here he played rook to b1 a typical i mean eric if you watch his online games he's he's he's famous for this stuff oh really yeah he's famous for stalemate for like all of these stalemate tricks the only problem is that when your opponent hasn't got one second left on the clock the stalemate tricks don't really work yeah so here rook b1 would just be a draw because the king has absolutely no moves but after g3 now when the king moves marie would take on b1 so eric just resigned and yeah very good a very good day for marie here right yes a very very good day an important day so her first win of the tournament right she has had only draw so far actually yeah so her first win is is really great and um yeah means we've got one game left night b3 by bobby cheng and you know it's one of those where you should be patient with black here and try not to to run too long time because with three minutes on the clock it should be enough to to make the most precise defensive moves but also i feel like white knight is not exactly one on a good route here because i don't see how's it gonna get to f4 exactly yeah i mean maybe the next move by white is to play rook d5 uh rook d5 check can just be met by rookie five probably right exactly yeah i'm i'm getting less and less optimistic i think that bobby had to do something a bit earlier um and it felt like maybe he just got a bit complacent and allowed this construction with h5 so good night just played bishop to e5 i really like this move because it's somehow limits the knight from b3 he played knight c5 where is this knight going yeah i don't know what about a move like rook to c2 maybe then rook f3 check uh-huh and now after king g6 now we can try and try and make some so let's try knight d7 here knight d7 what about bishop d4 now knight f8 check knight f8 oops i have to play king h6 because king g7 would run into 96 and it's a four yeah so king h6 and i'll take care of that bishop g1 idea exactly uh rook f7 you're being very tricky now rook h7 is a threat and it's gonna be actually made and the only defense is bishop g7 right yeah 96 96 so you've you've made some progress bishop e5 rook f5 rook f5 rook e2 i guess probably but i i'm feeling it's still fine i believe no actually if i go back instead of rook f5 what if uh no rook i rook f5 the point is that i also have this rookie free with some of course you'll get this rook on g5 but i'm not sure that knight on e6 has a way to nicely come to f5 let's go back a couple of moves when i had you with so king h6 i tried rook f7 bishop g7 97 yeah tricky very tough yeah it's difficult to imagine that black will lose this one but yeah we've seen that if you get to those types of positions where you've got only moves left it might be might be a problem but uh oh wait can i can i has less than a minute already king g6 yeah let's see if the clock plays a a roll here uh so which is the position we have on the board so knight c5 on move knight c5 yeah and king g6 king g6 immediately that also makes sense oh look she's shaking i don't she's shaking yeah well you mean physically she's physically is she yeah i think she might just be cold it's colder in here today now in this in the evening you don't feel the cold i'm surprised yeah i have you have a lot of layers oh okay you have a very warm jacket okay okay okay so king g6 on the board all right and what is bobby gonna do yes do something so he tries 97 completely fine and uh but wait here with the rook on e2 you don't even threaten anything right there's no threat so what should i be doing bishop g7 perhaps try to dominate this night all right but here you've got maybe rook d6 okay king h7 and what what do i do with this yeah it's not easy just keep on maybe that's the the technique here is you have to try and dominate this night right yeah i really like this bishop g7 and now that i have the king on g6 rook f3 doesn't actually make so much sense she played king f5 now he's gonna give a check yeah and she has to be careful okay let's go to this position because i think she has to be careful now 97 king f5 yeah because if i go rook f3 check and you go king e4 i think that might be a mistake because maybe now i can play knight takes e5 and after king takes e5 for a moment you're cut now it still might not be enough no i believe it's not but let's say i go g4 oh no this is just uh it's an easy draw yeah the king is too close yeah no it's an easy draw now yeah we have the pawn on a tribe already it's difficult to win this one uh wait rook f8 king yeah okay you could try something like rook f8 actually no no i was yeah i mean probably i do keep the knight and bishop on but just in the rook and pawn ending if i go king takes a now rook f8 all right so you want to go for rook a8 yeah i need to be able to protect it yeah so i have to play king d6 i guess now rook f5 but here i can play rook e5 and it's a draw are you sure yeah well the king and pawn is a draw that's that should be a draw right king f3 i should meet with king f5 so king e6 let's say yeah that's gonna be king f2 king f6 yeah so there are three squares between the kings it's the long opposition and because it's the h pawn it's it's a draw so what do we have yeah it's probably a draw he played something else he went back and now she played rook c2 yeah he wants to give check and look he's quite low on the clock 23 seconds also very low maybe a bit nervous here he gives the check king g6 king g6 now i really think he needs to go like knight d7 he needs to go knight d7 here we might actually get that line that we saw 97 bishop e4 or bishop g7 even or bishop g7 yeah 97 bishop g7 i really like actually gives gives what really no all right 10 seconds yeah 10 seconds only yeah he knows he has to move 7 knight d3 okay also fine oh that's a good one because she has to keep probably the bishop on the h2b8 diagonal no probably not to allow this knight come to f4 even even then but yeah she should probably keep it on that diagonal so bishop d6 yeah bishop d6 good move now she's keeping control here really nicely yeah and she is back at one minute 43 i believe i believe in gunai's defense here look we see pia following the game um yeah it must have been a disappointing loss for her today well yeah but if gunai draws she'll be quite happy i think with the is it possible to be happy when you lose well because this is a team match it's really more about the team the team king f5 and she's defending very well and bobby really out of ideas here can't even get close yeah now if he allows some ruxi free knight e1 might actually be a draw immediately yeah knight e1 so the knight might try this route actually but here i could play bishop c5 maybe no knight takes c2 oh wait oh it's hanging sorry for that so i have to move the rook right yeah you have to move the rook and where do i move it rook d wherever any any square ah perhaps i could be smart and play rook a2 that's fine i guess she wants to go i guess he wants to go knight uh let me see knight f3 is clever careful rook a3 knight d4 check you've got this one yeah and rook e6 and i win the piece all right so there are still tricks there are still tricks so knight f3 rook a2 knight f3 um yeah knight e1's a good try actually by bobby actually yeah might be what about no i don't really want rook c5 played okay he's gonna go knight f3 it's not even a debate and then she's gonna go rook d5 classic this is what she's gonna do yeah seems like a very good a very good try and then he's gonna play like rook b3 rook c3 or rook b3 she's gonna try here whatever he does it's it just it doesn't really matter oh she didn't she played wow she played bishop e5 knight e1 rook c5 knight f3 bishop e5 oh well i mean it's fine because the king and pawn is just a draw yeah we've seen that yeah some some couple of minutes before it seems like bobby is did he win a game here i believe he made a lot of draws i don't think he's won a game i don't remember i don't think he has won a game rook e2 okay now so far he he's been very solid and today was quite a good chance for him to yeah to score his first victory but it seems like you nice defense is just it's just good bishop f6 now now what's going on oh they need new score sheets yep they've reached the uh the end of the score sheet bishop f6 27 seconds here for bobby and i guess he's gonna play uh something like wow again it's so difficult because his bishop is dominating the knight rook f2 perhaps i don't like that he's going so low on the clock rook a2 also fine because you could just get a brain freeze at some point you know just completely panic or something and you know actually i know this kind of a rule that you should never get lower than 10 seconds on the clock in a classical game what's that why is that because then you could you know anything could happen so it's not acceptable they say to to go lower than 10 seconds i've been low a lot of times rook c3 hold on but now if i give this check which one rook a5 what about king g6 king g6 and i've got no good moves right and he actually went for it the check and she will play king g6 definitely there's no upper move yeah i don't see this one going wrong for black because after 92 you've got rook e3 even right 92 it sets up a nasty trap but yeah you can't you can't really go wrong here yeah king g6 played yeah there's there's not she's she's just holding very steady right so knight back to e1 my goodness it crossed my mind actually because now he wants to bring the ah okay that's clever and the rook is controlling that's actually very clever yeah that's actually very clever so maybe she should go oh that's actually very clever she's got one minute 32 that's a clever clever he found she should attack the rook perhaps bishop d8 i was thinking so yeah to then be able to go bishop c7 yeah that's clever but maybe i can go rook d5 i'll attack the bishop right after bishop and rook g5 check and king h6 and now i need some kind of knight of five check knight of five check would be nice okay 92 no i could how do i how do i get out no maybe i can no no i can go king g2 king g2 king g2 to play knight of three next but then ah all right so i will have to be careful here yeah now i'm if i get my king back into business but i could again play moves like bishop d8 you cannot really keep rook d5 here bishop c7 knight f3 you've made some progress actually okay rook c2 check king f1 oh sorry i'm blundering a pawn oh yeah i'm blundering a pawn damn i have to go yeah king h3 rook back to c3 though exactly now rook f rook f5 king g6 no problemo i rook g5 now i rook g5 now no so i'm not gonna play king g6 i should not allow that i could pretend that i blunder and play bishop d6 yeah that doesn't really work um but yeah i can't i can't make progress here it's so annoying because now i have to rook f6 king g7 when you take the bishop and you take the knight yeah but uh but let's see okay rook d5 is actually on the board rook d5 yeah this is the position on the board all right so and she's got like 16 seconds or something like that she's she needs don't lose on time bishop c7 played as per our idea and knight d3 and knight d3 sorry we didn't this is obviously a very good move why because now you can bring the king uh-huh so she might go rook c2 here but you cannot bring it to to close because the pawn on g3 will still be hanging now no but at least i can you know no because rook g5 check exists there's all kinds of stuff what about the move like king h6 king f6 oh okay well it's okay but hold on i i'm a bit you're getting nervous yeah i think it's okay yeah i think it's okay because now she might be threatening king e6 or something all right but then i you still have ruby you're still having this happening right yeah so why it isn't really risking or anything yeah this hand game is really interesting and uh if i would be on bobby's place i would also play it you know until i run out of moves because now of course you have to you have to and it might get down to a very um slight score difference uh in a few rounds that game might actually matter a lot exactly well you run zero risk here is white so you just try and play around but it's it's not easy it's not easy to play around here right and pia she's she's yeah pia is just such a what a captain she is she's amazing right she's the best and you know i'm actually looking now at the results and i believe this is the day with the most decisive results uh until this point i think we've never had such a massive uh decisive games moment right king g2 finally played with five seconds left on the clock so he's getting close but he's okay he's not following my rules no no i mean after king e6 he always has rook c5 as a bailout i mean he's never right he's never losing but he has to be still careful king e6 played but also gunai has to be careful because now the king is really far away from protecting this pawn so she can't allow white uh consolidate here because then she might not have time to run back so is rook d4 forced if white wants to continue the game i think so yeah of course it is it's the only move and he plays it what now bishop b6 bishop b6 is a move oh wait wait what uh rook e4 check wait this is getting rook e4 check king d5 but why not rook b4 ah rook but then i take on d3 and then it's a draw then it's a draw i know rook b4 rook d3 rook b6 check are you go rook uh rook d6 rook d6 wait it's getting a little king of seven king of seven uh king of seven sorry i know after i take six i've got rook d5 and i'm going to protect my pawn yeah she goes bishop e5 bishop e5 yeah that might be also also actually yeah now you're actually forcing these rook and pawn endings no this is a good this is a this is a really good move no this is this is an immediate draw what worked fantastic gunai so resilient he he really didn't he played rook d8 but now you can just go like bishop f6 ah bishop e6 knight f4 check sorry you've got to be careful so bishop c7 all right bishop c7 is the correct way and probably he will have to go rook d4 back exactly and he has to go back no other moves what a game yeah fantastic fantastic resilience from the young mamadzada who is uh impressing me every day even in her losses yeah you know i've noticed that it's uh she she's not in the best of her forms right um we could see that but still she fights so well and yeah and so well and yeah very a very good job she does yeah i believe it's the sign of a very good player because like they say about magnus you know that even when he is out of form he still makes a lot of points exactly yeah i believe bob is gonna just repeat it right there's no point in playing the rook hand game yeah yeah and that's actually gonna be three times i believe no i believe it's just the second oh is it rook d bishop c7 rook d8 bishop c7 rook d4 probably bishop b5 will be the third third could be the third one after bishop b5 oh he gave the check what he wants to bring it to e3 and pin himself wow king d5 i know king d5 he can then move the knight no wait where do you move the knight because g3 is hanging king okay and then you are you i'm not sure you can take there oh wow really i don't know because the king is cut perhaps you can but maybe you don't because you've got a lot of checks here right rook c2 it might be still a draw exactly but this one yeah i mean it's it's it's how do you play here no no no i mean it's it might be as well winning for a while it's not clear to me she played king f5 yeah king f5 was the other move oh but that is that will mean that he's gonna still try for a few moves here rook e3 probably right rook e3 but he's kind of pinned but yeah he can go rook e3 here for sure by the way the last pawn move was on move 59 so we are now at 76 yes so if it gets to 109 is it a draw yeah yeah it is i wonder if she knows that i think she does what about bishop b6 here rook f3 check can i go king e4 knight f2 check is it dangerous no it's probably king d4 only move now i take knight h3 yeah and then i got and then i goes to f4 nulus yeah there's some danger there is some danger so how do you play here i don't know poor good night on the on the on the end of these it's it's even though she's showing great resilience it's it's no fun yeah it's definitely oh and when you are playing this once with black you'd love to be able to force a draw and it's so annoying when you're open and keeps finding chances and it's definitely even more difficult with with seconds on the clock and she's down to 15 seconds now 13 12 here we go nine got a final move good night don't get nervous six oh the nerves four three six okay she kept the she kept the but now but now rook f3 check it's over because the king has got no good square it's over bishop d6 big blunder rook f3 check white wins it cannot be rook f3 check maybe white wins okay let's see rook f3 king e4 is nine f2 king d4 okay i let's try this takes maybe the opponent game is strong oh yeah 94 check wins the bishop it's over it's come bishop d6 was a huge blunder and he's seen it he's seen it all big sigh of relief bobby chang is gonna bring home the bacon for the boys horrible horrible horrible wait for a game to finish terrible yeah the rook was just unprotected and she knows there's no king move king e6 knight f4 check wins king g6 knight f4 check wins king e4 and now very simple knight f2 check rook king d4 rook takes c3 and 94 at the end and it's not even it's not even close that is horrible heartbreaking terrible terrible day for the lady yeah everybody was plundering where it seemed that they were better or the game with that in the draw i don't know did we jinx it again i i don't know i might my heart really is very heavy for for gunay and that's enough and she's very disappointed you fight so hard five hours five and a half hours six hours and then you you know it's just a horrible horrible horrible feeling and bobby chang he's not proud as you can see he's he kind of feels bad about winning like that but you know you've got to take your wins when they come when you play tough opponents and you know gunay is just so incredibly tough yeah um i'm i'm so you know i might actually feel like crying right now because it breaks my heart to see the ladies in such such a tough situation now and they were fighting so well up to this point and today it was such a disaster let's have a look at the results then from today's round if we can get those on the screen yeah be great all right so ravi won against tyreen joe a drug and jensaya bobby just won against gunay balash with a very good win against pia eric was the only one from or was he not no actually there were two games won by the ladies eric lost to to marie sabino a draw against maria and julian lost against uh olgagiria as is hussein turned the game around and actually from a completely lost position he won against uh nino batse ashvili bilal won a nice game against yovanka and actually it seemed like yovanka was better at some point but he managed to turn that around as well and leandro we've a draw against marcel so uh yeah this means that for the first time in the match the men's team is leading by two points and the score is 31 to 29 yeah so the men take over the lead for the uh first time since since the beginning of the match yeah because the the the women team they got off to a great start they were at plus six after two rounds men clawed it back in round three clawed it back in round four little blip in round five and now the men finally taking the lead but it's only two points it's only two points there is round seven eight nine and ten but it might be psychologically not so easy to to get back to have the great mood they had on the previous days it will be challenging and it will be very interesting to see if the ladies can make up for today's loss tomorrow yeah and what we're gonna do is we're gonna get the team captains hopefully in with us for a uh basically a quick chat and thoughts on today um so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a just a very very brief break and uh we will be back in just a couple of minutes with the thoughts of hopefully both team captains of course pierre will be desperately disappointed but it'll be interesting to hear what how she plans to uh to to to be there as well really as as a mother figure for the team because she is a mum for that team a lot of the the players playing very young and some words of wisdom i think would suit them uh very very well so we'll be back in a couple of minutes don't go anywhere see you in a sec hello everybody and welcome back to round six of battle of the sexes we're not actually going to be joined by the team captains uh so we are going to be joined however by the last man standing today and uh he's still standing because he won a critical game against uh for me uh when i look at the women's team and women's chess in general one of the big talents of women's chess kunai mama zada apart from the fact that she's uh uh incredibly gifted she's got a talent which a lot of players don't have which is this tenacity and she's very stubborn and she's very very hard to beat for a young girl i can't confirm that to to to to defend like she does it's impressive but you got through in the end firstly how are you feeling how how how was the game yeah well basically it was like a very long game and it was a dead draw for a long time but i just kept playing on and she just blended this one thing at the end she had like three seconds on a clock and she just randomly made a move and um yeah i mean it's a huge relief actually this is the first classical game i've won in about nine months so wow i was because obviously we knew you hadn't won here but nine months that's a long time yeah wow okay it yeah it doesn't it doesn't feel good to win like this so as i said to you bobby i think you've got to take your wins when you can in a tournament like this so uh you ended up winning the game now what i suggest we do is we we have a very quick look at the game in the critical moments um i'm sure people at home would be interested in hearing your thoughts so the opening uh well we already discussed and we know that this is a popular line to go d6 of course d5 is yeah she never she she mainly plays us love so i i didn't really prepare for this at all i just knew this setup there should be two at night if d7 is clever as well which is i had this in the world cup actually oh okay yeah i played castles here which i checked it off for the game apparently i'm meant to play b4 so which is what that's yeah that's all i knew okay and then you've got to and the reason you do that is because you're now in time to meet e5 d5 a5 yeah exactly and queenie eight i think she just it was a very interesting idea i yeah i mean she's got like lack of space but she goes for this f5 right and um it's quite interesting i mean it looks like it shouldn't work but it's not so easy over the board right so c5 i thought was critical and yep should be a night of six and then okay maybe we can go through it quickly because it's a long game but um yeah so okay there's there's heaps of options there's heaps of options yeah there's so many alternatives in every move right um you took and when night c4 i mean this also oh you looked at okay no this is um imported through so we didn't look at any of these lines these are just imported lines yep uh yeah takes takes okay one yeah yeah so night c4 okay yeah i expected takes bishop e4 i expected yeah 93 and then i thought i was doing very well here because i'm threatening night g5 and when yeah which is very annoying so she played queen g6 and then so queen b3 makes sense queen h8 yeah i thought i was doing really well here but then i after 92 yeah i thought i was doing well here and she was like down to 20 minutes yeah then she played dc5 and i couldn't find a move like yeah we were looking i thought maybe critical is to go some f3 i was spending heaps of time on this f3 bishop f5 and i was thinking g4 here which wow looks kind of i mean looks very dangerous but the point is if she plays bishop d7 i can go knight dc4 this is one point and it feels like a sort of computer line that might be very strong but i i don't know it was hard hard to play yeah it's hard to play but i have a feeling maybe the computer will think this is very strong but i'm not sure okay but yeah i took only five and i knew this was sort of leading to a like i saw this line where it leads to this end game where i'm a pawn up but it's it's very um it's very hard to win but i just decided to play it safe i didn't want to open my king too much with this g4 yeah i'm sure i missed heaps of things here i could look the position looked quite good but yeah i mean this is all forced this is all forced and then yeah i was i was thinking about rook d1 but then i didn't like um queen takes e4 queen takes d7 and i think she has queen f4 here and then if like yeah now i'm i didn't really want to take too much risk here she's got bishop d6 next as well i didn't i really don't want to lose this game yeah no losing this yeah i was down to like maybe 10 minutes here as well so i just played knight c5 i knew this was leading to this pawn up end game right so all of this is almost forced isn't it you get i don't know if it's forced but it's very natural yeah and this should just be a draw i mean it's opposite color bishops and right firstly i need to trade the queens because my king is sort of weak right so so you pin you do this and then she has this yeah some tactics but it's just all simplifying tactics yeah simplifying tactics and oh yeah was that nice yeah yeah this is cute so to show taking here would be a huge blunder because not not a huge huge well this is a draw right yeah it's just well it's just an immediate draw yeah it reminds me of what game was it the martial martial game yeah vaguely yeah vaguely um but yeah that's an immediate draw so of course you can't you can't play that you have to take the queen yeah bring the knight back and we have this ending yeah this this should just really be a draw because like any like the only trades that are good for me is if i trade my bishop for her knight right but um like yeah i mean trading the rooks just makes it pretty dead draw trading the knights obviously but you did manage to do that you managed to trade yeah she she was very long time like rook d8 was definitely a mistake okay she must have missed 95 because now yeah when you have like two minutes here it gets very uncomfortable right yeah so rook d8 was a big blunder huh i don't know if it's a blunder but yeah it's definitely inaccurate she has lots of moves there's a new g6 she can play anything anything h5 yeah anything no not h5 probably not h5 h5 95 but g6 looks sensible doesn't it yeah i mean it should just be a draw should just be a draw but you managed to get yeah actually yeah because this is very uncomfortable when you have two minutes left right and rook d8 because it looks like i'm borderline winning here after bishop e7 rook e1 yeah you've got him i don't i don't know if i missed something but yeah i also had like two minutes here and look i'm not sure if h4 is best because because she can't move a rook she can't move a bishop her next move she can't play knight c6 because of bishop b5 so basically next move is knight f5 and then move the rook oh but then i've bishop f5 so she has to play like knight f5 and then knight d6 and then move the bishop but i mean i have a few moves to do something like i felt like this is like my one chance but i also okay there's no king f1 that looks like a good move to me yeah i didn't i didn't see yeah because maybe now yeah so when she plays knight f5 i take it and i have a better version of the end game right i don't allow this f4 but okay it was very i mean h4 is so natural yeah so h4 knight f5 and then i couldn't see anything okay i went takes takes would be five and king of seven um yeah we said i can't take that one yeah and i played g3 and i thought maybe i'll get some good end game where so basically i'm dreaming of some end game where i play like g3 f4 you know king g2 and then i keep the rooks on and then that pawn on f5 will just drop it eventually but she played f4 which is very good move really good move was it yeah this was really good because she only had like a minute left and um yeah so now i now she trades the f1s and then i'll get the same game where uh like it should be a draw but i can play i can play on forever yeah yeah it's yeah it's not it's not comfortable it it's not pleasant i mean she defended very well she defended extraordinary i thought rook a8 was a really good try yeah rook a8 i have to actually but i thought rook a8 because after i give a check like in the game sorry i played rook d3 rook a6 and now after check she gets her king stuck cut off on the f5 because if she plays like king g7 i have rook f6 yeah that's what we were looking at and i don't know if this is winning or not but i think it is like she probably doesn't want to allow this yeah i don't know like neither side can move here but i got like h5 h6 exactly and she doesn't want to play h6 so yeah so she got her king stuck on the e file on the e file which even then it was probably just totally fine yeah knight of six rook a7 we can probably speed through yeah we can speed through here king g4 which she would like she has to be careful after king g4 because i'm threatening knight g5 and yeah king takes and that that end game must be winning that end game is bad so rook a5 is a very good move and now i'm like stuck for ideas i just moved around rook f1 we looked briefly yeah it's just a draw because takes takes rook h1 yeah rook a rook a i can't go to the h file i my only winning tries to go like g6 because if i go rook f6 king a7 rook h6 she just goes king f7 put the king on g8 uh yeah that's just a theoretical yes so i have to keep i have to keep the king cut off so my only tries to play um g6 takes king g5 but then she goes rook a8 yeah and she's in front yeah she's in time like well in time here like yeah yeah she gives all the checks yeah like even if my pawn was on g4 even g5 i think it's no on g5 yeah g4 is yeah g4 is g4 is still a draw but g5 is winning yeah okay so yeah 9g5 didn't work so okay so you couldn't try that so i just i just moved around rook f1 doesn't improve my position at all right i'm just making a move like if she plays rook b5 i have no idea what i'm going to do so there was a bunch of but yeah h5 i thought that's good yeah i get i mean it's sort of like she doesn't have to do it no maybe there's nothing wrong with it there's nothing wrong because actually in the in the game she she did really well restricting yeah yeah because if she gets her bishop to g1 i just can never move right basically i have i have to keep stopping like bishop d4 bishop g1 exactly so that's what play kind of revolved around and then okay i mean like there was this line here with rook c2 you probably saw check and 97 yeah and then bishop d4 and then knight f8 and then king h6 yeah and king h6 and now i thought yeah yeah i saw this yeah yeah i saw this but then bishop g7 yeah and bishop g7 and there's nothing here right yeah yeah this is it was but it's quite cute that you're both friend we're both we're both trying to same kind of mate which is very unusual yeah um yeah i was just shuffling around i was just trying to stop bishop g1 i was just trying to keep the game going right and then i mean she could just repeat but she chose not she chose i don't know why but it's totally fine i mean it's still totally fine i mean even around here i mean 91 was a really good try 91 she has to be careful yeah rook c5 rook c5 is fine yeah probably fine okay i mean every move is fine but knight f3 bishop b5 is still fine this is still fine yes it's just a draw it's 91 again yeah 91 again was nice yeah and now she has to be careful again yeah now she has to be careful because she yeah she played bishop g8 like when i played 91 she had like two minutes and yeah it's a tricky move and i think she was reaching she was about to play rook c1 here which i think is just losing up to 93 yeah i'm pretty sure she she was like reaching for the rook and then she stopped but i think she was uh bishop bishop g8 is good yeah bishop g8 is really good i was really annoyed when she she didn't play rook c1 and then she actually played the correct she played bishop d8 yeah you have to hit the bishop yeah this is another ship yeah and now now you have to uh it's a block yeah king m6 is really good actually i didn't see king i thought she was gonna play king h6 when i still can't make progress but then she played this and i thought this is probably gonna be an immediate draw because she just keeps attacking my rook that's what i thought as well we were in the game but actually it's not because amazingly it's not because bishop e5 um so what she played and what was wrong with bishop b6 is it b6 no not a four not a four check ah not a four check so you have to keep the bishop there right yeah so rook d8 rook d8 she attacks yeah i went back and the reason she didn't play because like originally i thought after rook e8 check king d5 is just a draw but um because the point is rook e3 king d4 exactly but actually i can play rook c8 here it's not so simple rook c8 yeah because if she takes i think that the game is losing actually no i think it is really not a rook c5 rook d4 and you were offside sorry yeah exactly and i was i'm not sure i know rook i think the rook e3 holds but it's very close it's close huh it's very no rook she's seven no i know yeah it's very close maybe this still holds but you don't want to go for this you've right so she yeah but it's much more natural just to bring the king to f5 right which is what she did right so she went sorry king f5 yeah and then i played rook e3 and then she yeah she had like like 30 seconds and here she blundered and then she she went down to three seconds and just made a random move i think um because she can just play rook c2 check and i can't do anything like rook c2 king f3 rook c3 i literally have no moves yeah and unfortunately for gunai she played bishop d6 and now i couldn't believe my luck actually she runs into this fantastic idea of rook f3 and only has king moves that run into checks and then yeah obviously this is just mate and if you come here then you lose the rook and if you try and come over here and protect the rook as per the game she resigned after knight f2 because here you can just win a bishop the bishop d6 was a horrible blunder and you know that's what happens sometimes you uh you just get tired and uh make a blunder at the end bobby i mean uh an important win um important for the boys as well yeah yeah we had a i didn't really see too much of the other games but i i think we did pretty well really good day uh means that the boys are two points ahead uh well done on your first win and uh now the ball is back in the court of the girls to see if they can stage a comeback yeah all right this is the first time i've taken a lead i think that is the first time in the match so well done uh and uh thank you again it's been a it's been a long day thank you everybody for uh for staying with us for the whole day but we are back tomorrow the action does not stop same time same place are the girls gonna be able to recompose themselves and get back into this match or is the floodgate's gonna really open and uh boys start to take a big big lead going into the homestretch see you tomorrow see you then thanks again and uh have a lovely evening cheers


All right, Willie so we know your name now, but can you just tell us where you're from? I'm from Pasco, Washington And Willie we understand that you have an amazing testimony to share with us But can you just start off with telling us? What was the problem that you were experiencing? I was experiencing Addiction of chewing During my senior year It's been about I'll say six years about And I started I had a few friends That was chewing and I decided you know what I'll try it and I tried it and Just last Sunday I think it was Pastor Martin. He he asked. I think about three people in a group to pray for us and Maria she she asked me I needed prayer. I said Like I really need prayer So Willie you said that you are addicted to chewing tobacco for six years. How often would you chew? I'll say about Five five times a day and you've been trying to get rid of this habit But what has it been like? What is the struggle for you and trying to stop this habit? It's been pretty difficult But you know that last Sunday So when you got and when you got into the group when we were leading that prayer and Pastor Martin had said to get in groups and and just ask people for a prayer together And you said that that Maria had prayed for you.  What happened at that moment. I Felt you know God really touching my heart And it felt like and it felt like God was reaching down my throat trying to remove the the nicotine and I just fell down to the ground and I Was delivered amen hallelujah Amen, thank you Jesus now the sweetness of this testimony Willie is Really is in my home group. So I have the pleasure of knowing that his story But Willie tell us what happened after that the next couple of days. Did you have any cravings for this chewing tobacco? You know what I I haven't you know, I I haven't even thought about it. Are you have I haven't bought a can I haven't chewed all week long Amen hallelujah and the most the most amazing part is when Willie was sharing his testimony on our Tuesday Night home group. He was so full of joy You can see like he's so happy They got his set him free from this six-year addiction to chewing tobacco so much joy hallelujah Amen And we know that it must only be God because if you're trying to quit an addiction Whether it's chewing tobacco smoking cigarettes alcohol when you try to stop cold turkey You're not happy you're grumpy and you don't feel good, but if you could see Willie right here No more cravings full of the joy of the Lord, and we worship God Almighty for this amazing testimony Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Jesus So Willie now that you are here and you have absolutely no more cravings of chewing tobacco God has set you free just in even what seems like a regular time of prayer at the end of the service How can you encourage the faith of people who have come here today who might be experiencing a similar addiction?  Amen. Let's put our hands together one more time for Jesus Thank you so much Willie for sharing your wonderful testimony. Thank you for watching this content I know this was a blessing to you We would like to ask you to subscribe to our channel and click on the bell on our channel so that each time we upload something You can be notified. Don't forget to share this content with your friends and family and on social media We're so thankful to you better is not good enough. The best is yet to come