t does but it might not be enough for who for white no bishop h3 wait but I could I see various pretty lines after okay let's say queen a6 queen a6 this is a move you missed I didn't miss this move what's going on queen c5 this is psychological attack Lawrence oh okay queen c5 looks good queen c5 yeah it looks good and also if you go queen c3 I can go queen 6 f8 check at the very least yeah and your your piece up in this variation this looks bad so he went queen d5 wait this is he might not be able to take the opponent oh sorry wait wait wait wait wait wait what rook b8 sorry he played queen d5 queen d5 here all right so he wants to take on a free yeah this might be a good move this might be a good move but wait yeah this is a this is this is a really good move it is this is a good move this is a really good move and she took what while she's going for the ultra safe takes takes and then try and win b7 with no risk this is still probably a bit unpleasant for black but definitely but it it feels like a hold to me might not be a lot yeah feels like a rook b7 here just going for the pawn well we can go a5 but let me be me I'm gonna go rook c8 so we want to bring the rook to c1 but wait you you are in trouble yourself on the last rank so I'll go h6 and I'll just claim that I have activity I don't believe this again it's the same knight d4 and now again I will have this nice bishop if you allow me to probably not enough yeah I don't like it you're right I don't like it okay so I'll go a5 a5 but I can't but again there is this unpleasant knight d4 move I believe yeah knight d4 I like because the bishop is much better than the knight in these types of positions with pawns on the flanks I think I've been saying it a lot but I think it's a very useful principle to know oh he's got bishop takes yeah I saw that one but I'm not sure it's good no rook takes before okay bishop f3 no this is this is much better than no but wait rook a4 okay g5 bishop g2 yeah but this is just one of those endings with rook you're not with your rook on a1 still but I can get it there right I don't know anything I mean rook a7 okay let's say rook b2 I'm not actually sorry I should go g4 probably I'm not convinced you can go rook a4 rook a5 when a pawn maybe yeah if the rook would be behind the pawn it's just a theoretical draw but as the rook is still not there I think there might be some so if I go here king of 3 h3 or maybe h4 was better let's try h4 better first h4 or then you will have rook before I guess I don't know so if I go no wait I have to figure out a way let me think for a moment please no this is between all right yes I have to figure out a way to take all those pawns away from the second rank and then bring the king somehow it's okay yeah let's continue the same way king a3 h5 h3 okay I'll go king g7 king e3 okay I'll go king g6 let's throw wait what did you do they are heading to the sand game yeah they're gonna head to it um yeah so ideally I wanted to play some a3 and bring the king to the other flank but I'm not sure I mean you probably have enough time to collect one of those pawns on the king side let's try g4 here g4 you probably will play h4 yeah rook a6 yeah it looks like might be just not enough yeah it's one of those typical endings I really love what Jillian has done this is this is definitely not maybe I could try something else okay after rook a4 you played g5 I think so what else do I have here let me try play rook a3 okay so you want me to commit with g4 okay I'll try g4 anyway and now h3 okay it will be better in that rook hand games if I get rid of this h1 okay let's go rook c8 I take on g4 now this is a better I think I like this one more all right rook clicks a7 yeah and then I play king g2 yeah yeah here I have chances to try and win this one agreed so I can't let you do that so I have to go h5 and here I take on g4 I could also try but probably rook a5 isn't good okay and now bishop g2 I like this yeah this is a much better version because also the pawn on g4 is a weakness so just to tell to our viewers that rook a8 is never the way to play these hand games because the rook shouldn't be passive it should always be active even at the cost of a pawn now I could throw in a rook a4 to make you play a 5 and now take on a7 and it actually might not be good it might be it might be bad for for black for black yes I don't know it's still a tricky one isn't it with the rook in front it's still not an ideal yeah you still have if I had my pawn on a4 I would already say that you are lost because I play rook b7 rook b4 rook a4 and bring the king and game over but you still have some moves yeah and as I said I'm not in I'm not even entirely sure that I have to go with g5 yeah perhaps skipping those h pawns alive and not overexpanding too fast might be a better idea so let's say I went g6 for example I like this one better and let's say but what if I throw in this rook a3 just to make your bishop go away I like that move very nice move yeah this is gonna be I definitely Jillian will have passive oh she played bishop g2 did she yeah yeah she took took and bishop g2 this is this is just wrong yeah this is not a but wait no because you don't have a wait I'm still winning the a pawn no I can go here f6 oh perhaps she missed that but maybe the king and pawn is winning so this like could it be winning yeah probably not though right no no no it's not it's not enough but I'm really surprised that she played did we miss something I don't think so but okay she was also having quite a tough time in the I mean she lost the last three games but it seemed like a very safe option to go for rook a4 I mean this one no she definitely missed this idea with f6 otherwise f6 maybe f5 I don't know probably f6 yeah and the other point is if you go let's say rook a4 you've got rook f7 rook f7 and the key point king f3 rook e7 king f7 yeah easy draw yeah yeah it is a draw yeah I don't believe why it should win this position me neither so that's uh that's kind of a disappointment for the for the girls actually quite a big one if I was right about my rook a4 assessment let's go to Ivanka's game though because I mean this is a catastrophe for Joe Gallagher this position here bishop f6 why isn't this is just immediately I mean this isn't even a debate right I mean your thousand pawns up you can take you can go here and take and then run the a pawn okay he's got maybe some little tricks like after rook c6 maybe he hopes to play some bishop d8 or something it's not even a trick is it rook c5 not even close to a trick yeah no it's just over no this is just this is just not even a oh what's going on what is wrong something happened oh they got uh they got the extra time on the clock too soon did Joe run out of time I don't know because we can see 29.54 can it be oh yeah he was quite low on time yeah he's way behind on time oh no I don't really know I think he lost on time anyways the position's a mess so he so he I think they just don't mind that there's the extra time are they gonna readjust the clock are they okay not sure at all what's going on in any case he I mean he could have five hours and he should lose this position yeah they are discussing something yeah yeah I mean Joe's position is just a uh yeah uh yeah but I'm very curious what's what's going on maybe there would maybe some moves so it looks like they are still gonna play some moves it doesn't look like they are signing the score sheets or something but Joe looks looks very disappointed I'm afraid to say well he should be because the position is a mess and it's a big loss actually it was one of the games I didn't have down I thought Yvanka you know she's not being that great and Joe has been playing all right and maybe he's feeling a bit of fatigue a bit of tired tiredness and actually we've seen actually quite a number of players who who are definitely low on energy levels yeah all right it's exhausting playing these tournaments it really is so Brunello in a bad position Joe Gallagher toast uh let's have a look at the Kyrie versus Leandro game because this is just him looked interesting this is just a draw probably I mean she's a pawn down actually I don't even know how that happened no this is this is not even to discuss I mean either Leandro I mean Leandro can just try here forever I mean it's just a pawn right yeah so Olga is not winning this and at best she's making a draw it should be enough for a draw but Leandro yeah like you said he's gonna just play here forever and actually we have an interesting moment here because the main arbiter came to check the video from the playing hole I believe that there was something with running over time well even as I say even if he does lose on time here it's not it's not a it's not really a big deal because his position is just completely over so that means let's just have a quick look so we're gonna have Gunai great position Zansaya well I mean did you did Eric take on e4? Zansaya losing apparently apparently apparently Zansaya losing which but losing objectively in a very complicated position let's say Antoinette's are winning so actually let's have a look at what happened there because it went Queen takes d5 and now he didn't play rook d8 because he spotted b4 so he went bishop b6 queen takes b7 and rook d8 trying to play this position on bishop d2 is fine and knight c3 is fine okay I guess I why didn't she go with this knight very good question perhaps a6 or what I don't know what was she worried about I have no idea the rooks are connected the knight can just go to a3 or something or a c7 might even be possible after knight a3 I have bishop takes a3 b takes a3 rook d2 and I get back an exchange but it might well still be lost that might be a good and if I go knight c7 rook d7 I guess she was worried about might be no I think rook 5 to c3 is is knight 5 to c3 probably she will be left with an extra exchange and pawn at some point because she might just want to move away the rook from d1 and then Ravi might sacrifice the rook for two pieces on d2 yeah well the game will still continue for for some moves definitely Ravi is trying to you know just to make things as complicated as possible because the players still have only seven minutes on the clock but I don't see I don't see Antoinette I'm messing it up yeah me neither no she's just too good so Antoinette's winning Mamadzada great position Jovango Husko winning and so the dream of the plus four result is alive right now they've reconvened I actually think this is probably a good moment to go for a quick break what do you think yeah let's let's go for a quick break also find out what was going on there at Jovanka versus Jo and we'll be back to the action in just a very few moments see you soon battle of the sexes we are in a critical moment in this round quick summary so far two draws only up until this point so there have been no results since the last break but uh we've got some absolutely fantastic positions on the board let's go straight to Shanta Abdumalik against the fans favorite Eric Rosen where we've got an absolutely mental position on the board with Eric to play off then we should be six um what do we think exactly three minutes against seven minutes they still have to to make 10 more moves to reach the time control and it looks like white pawns are missing what but white is a pawn up right so hold on a second so what what's the score so not a pawn sorry an exchange up an exchange up okay so black has got five pawns white has got four and white has an exchange up and Eric has just played a very well unusual move yeah because that bishop on g7 was on a dream position on that long diagonal but from another point of view probably white wanted to play bishop d4 and tried to to trade it right but now well definitely white has to do something about that rook on c1 i believe so what do you do so you put the rook on a1 or something what about i'm afraid that at some point some c3 and then rook a3 might work but well it's still not the case but wait what no no it's not working for now she played rook b1 actually which might mean even more trouble for that king on a2 yeah i can't make it work for now what about going c3 yeah b3 will follow yeah b3 is kind of forced right no king a1 is actually a move believe it or not but okay she's gonna play b3 definitely and now the point is that that king on a2 might run into some mating ideas after a move like let's just imagine i can play rook a3 king a3 and queen a1 a8 sorry the queen is still not there but what if i prepare it somehow what if i play queen c8 here rook d8 check i cannot yeah for now for now all is fine then but it looks very dangerous for white i think eric here is going to play the move bishop d2 that bishop d2 with the idea of queen c8 knowing eric but what if i played it but what if i play queen d4 ah then you've got a very smart bishop e3 bishop d2 yeah bishop d2 queen d this is genius but how did look look at this move that i guessed yeah but you know what i'm afraid that at some point why it might be able to take on d2 and return some material and we have another result actually i believe that joe lost joe lost yeah joe lost yeah joe got crushed so a very nice win by ovanka and i have to say a very well deserved one it looked like joe just couldn't solve the opening problems somehow absolutely yeah he just uh yeah got crushed good and that means that the ladies are leading today for now with plus one and now a lot will depend on the game of john sya versus eric because it's one of the only positions which we see where uh the man's team has very good chances to bring a full point yeah so now we were saying that after queen d4 there is bishop e3 and the huge suddenly lose the bishop on b6 yeah uh so what else don't know five minutes for john sya let's have a look what about you know i was going to say queen c5 and then i realized that it's bishop e3 once again you always run it run into this move bishop d2 is a class move actually yeah it's uh it's a very good one i have to agree with you what if i take on d2 rook takes d2 okay c takes and could i play rook rook d1 i mean if i if i get back that deep on then maybe the worst is behind because i've got opposite colored bishops my king is no longer in that mating net i've got the b2 square for it yeah looks like a good move looks like a very practical try at least unless there is some no i don't i don't i don't see it but she didn't do it she did something else what did she do what did she play bishop c5 she played bishop c5 oh i don't like it you don't like it so he's gonna go ah he's got bishop takes no sorry uh he doesn't he nearly has bishop takes c2 what about to move like bishop f3 yeah now she's gonna be forced isn't she but then d1 is coming and you lose the exchange you lose two exchanges in one move right yeah that's that's very valid and another another result antoinetta has just won her game against ravi what a disaster today for ravi i must say just a disaster just a disaster absolutely disaster for ravi and i actually hope that we'll be able to have antoinetta in the studio that would be great because she has had two fantastic days in a row after her covid isolation she got two points very important two points for the ladies team absolutely what what a player okay so in this position after bishop c5 what if i go queen c8 now so you still want to take on a3 then play queen a8 but uh you didn't like bishop f3 was it no no i like bishop f3 i like bishop f3 i think the bishop f3 is good but i'm just trying for okay some other ideas but you know ah actually i don't have it but now i could take on d2 okay takes takes and now rook d1 okay so i think it might be all right for white because if you play something like queen d7 i've got queen d4 and i think i might eventually get that pawn back yeah i'm not in love with queen c8 yeah i think your move bishop f3 is good i'm curious what the just just flick it on for a minute oh wow it's just over it's just over randomly but i don't understand anything why this is over wait this is a fantastic resource this knight e5 knight e5 yeah knight go for knight c4 wow wow wow wow wow and the idea is if you take i take and then i mate you so knight e5 is just over apparently and then also wait what and then there's some wow knight c4 but also knight f3 knight f3 and also it's kind of logical because the knight is doing nothing yeah he didn't find it also knight c6 is afraid because the pawn on c2 will be in big trouble queen f6 what did he play what is this queen f6 where is he heading to i don't know the move looks random to me the move looks random yeah it doesn't look like the right way definitely knight e5 was just over that's incredible knight e5 is just over and if i take what's the idea surely not knight f3 now can it be no it must be takes and why is this over it's just far too deep it's just too complicated it's just a different world of chess queen f6 though by eric uh yeah this movie is a mystery to me what is this is he really going for the h4 pawn that would be oh maybe maybe maybe maybe let's also maybe he's getting ready to play uh let's put rook d2 c takes rook d1 now he has queen c3 because there's no bishop d4 as the knight is hanging on b4 but perhaps i have queen d4 yeah for example now in fact i think his idea here is to go bishop takes c2 what can it can it be i'm not following and now if i take queen c3 or it can't be right night before night before yeah and no follow it's too much yeah okay so that doesn't work all right so queen f6 on the board jensei with four three and a half minutes it should be said three and a half minutes yeah this game is definitely a very interesting one and one where the men are still hoping well if eric wins this it's it's worth like 50 000 points well definitely i mean in general if you said before today if eric wins today the matches the match might even be over because this for eric to be jensei with black uh you just yeah but eric rosin he's a man of many mysteries and many talents and jensei looking a bit confused i mean how do you play this position anyway this position is like insanely tough to play i think the most practical decision is is sacrifice but now you can't do it she played rook f1 actually yeah yeah you can't do it now because there's some bishop f3 again so she goes rook f1 is he gonna take that point i think he is i think he's gonna take the point i don't like this rook f1 because there will be no ideas if rook takes the two at any point later and the king is still in the mating net i'm a bit worried i'm more than worried here for white i think he's got 50 seconds yeah you got a take right any other moves that make sense here then maybe i have oh no i don't have it yeah he took the pawn yeah i like it maybe i've got some queen d4 queen d4 maybe i can activate a bit and now i can go 93 oh well it might not be anything special rook h1 rook h1 yeah okay work but i can also take right with the queen yeah you could and god knows what's going on there but let's just say i play a more standard move like queen g4 now rook b to g1 yeah queen f5 yeah this has gone wrong for me c2 suddenly is hanging yeah not the right way for white wow and she does go queen d4 so we got this on the board queen d4 on the board is he gonna find 93 well i mean it's just it's it's the move but what do i do after night if i don't know you're probably losing right no can't be why not oh yes it can eric rosin for the boys can he do it quick what is this move f5 what what is this what is what is this move the guy is on a suicide mission yeah i have no words to describe this move he's not a chess player he's a kamikaze pilot well this this is just too risky look at that king on g8 what is f5 maybe it's genius who knows i can't you know what i've commented on thousands of games of chess never in my life have i never been able to guess one move of somebody and that man is eric rosin i cannot guess a single move yeah queen c4 i mean she he leaves himself so open what is this why would he now the bishop is coming to d4 what king f8 king f8 he's trying to hold on but now he's gonna run into something on oh maybe not the queen protects his there's queen e6 which one oh queen e4 game over game over blunder he just blundered the piece awful oh oh eric oh no the bishop on e4 i have to say it i just can't help it the only the only good news is that um there aren't tens of thousands of people watching at the moment only a few thousands so it's not that everybody saw it at the same time right you know i'm you know eric should know better that f5 is just not a move you can play well but that f5 was just what a crazy move 93 by the way is just really good for black 93 is just really good for black it's crazy complicated but this this game might cost man not only today's match but huge might cost them the all over match i've got a theory that he was given a bit of money under the table to throw this game really to keep it competitive no it's just eric doing what eric does he's a great player he gets fantastically interesting positions with all the chances and then something goes wrong i don't know what's going on well it's clear what's going on all right let's have a look here let's have a look so queen takes e4 rook a5 okay this is just okay now you can he's a rook down now you can take on e7 twice and go knight c6 knight takes a5 if you want yeah why not bishop e7 game over yeah takes takes takes takes knight c6 knight takes a5 now you have got three pawns but i've also got a runner on b3 and and we have another result actually gunai has just made a draw against against sabina something went very wrong for gunai because at some moment it was the position looked very promising for white yeah it did so something went wrong there but let's just watch the end of this game between eric rosin because obviously critical game and rook a5 on the board and bishop takes e7 is tactics 101 and i mean gencaia is going to see it because it's definitely definitely she's just considering if to take on e7 with the queen or with the bishop yeah she'll take with the bishop no no okay queen d4 it probably doesn't spoil anything to be honest because knight c6 is still the threat yeah it's probably still and queen h8 is in the air and it's just it's just over i mean shocking shocking just shocking just shocking i mean goodness me i feel for eric here but i have to say that in terms of making this match even more interesting everything might actually come down to tomorrow's results if the ladies are gonna make a big come back today they will just play with 100 000 pounds on the board right yeah and just to give you an update the sabag hussein game looks like it's just immediately a draw so this looks like a repetition takes check and back and this is just a draw just immediately uh immediately a draw like you would you i mean he doesn't even have any week series weaknesses right so i mean he could even just you know attack a pawn like this no this has to be a draw so sabag is going to be a draw pia is going to be a draw she's not going to win this position and olga i mean olga is the one suffering here for a draw because well she's upon down but she has chances because of the opposite colored bishops so i believe uh um yeah that is the only game oh and eric blundered a rook now okay yeah it's time to resign it's time to resign eric this is this is you are two two rooks down yeah that's too much he blundered two rooks in two moves oh eric goodness me at least he made it a spectacle at least he made it a spectacle because you know what's gonna happen don't you you said today the women needed plus four and you know what they're gonna get plus five uh no no they're gonna get they're gonna get they're gonna get plus three plus three is too little no oh actually hold on balash is pushing wait a second balash is push pushing here this could be a horrible game to lose for the women but this is this is uh i think just just a draw no it should be just a draw because you will take back but then i don't have many useful moves but how do you improve no i think it should be a draw probably but i i'm not i'm a bit concerned i'm a bit worried for for erine here my instinct is telling me to be a little bit concerned for erine so we'll have a look at that in a moment but just to finish off that well they've reached move 40 i think what we're gonna do is this um we're gonna go for a very quick break because we are gonna get antonetta stefan over uh the hero of the last two days the hero of the women's team right the talisman is going to be in the studio and we're gonna hear from her the story is as follows the the women are up two games exactly at the moment jensire will win that will be plus three and that will mean that there will be three games left girya cramling sorry four games girya cramling tsukunda no three games as marisa bag has already agreed to draw three games left plus three an ideal situation for the women so far wow what a finish we're gonna have tomorrow but we'll be back in just a few minutes where we'll hear from antonetta don't be right back love the sexes round nine and we have the hero of the women's team of the last two days two out of two antonetta congratulations thank you uh how well have you been feeling this past week i know it's been tough you tested positive you had to isolate yeah it's the first time in my life that i test positive so it was a strange feeling but i was lucky that i was asymptomatic so i didn't really have health problems but of course being isolated in the room is not what i came here for so i was really eager to play some chess games but i used this time when i was in my room to write a lot of things for my university i'm going for second master degree so ah so you had a productive time anyway uh did you follow the games i believe you you surely did right of course i did yes i mean and we started great the first two days with plus three and then somehow everything went wrong but uh okay i mean we i believe we still have a chance and we have to fight till the end and actually i don't know if you know but i had some kind of uh bet with uh loran and actually we we said about it so what was it so it was if we managed to make plus eight today that the last round we'll play not at 11 but at 12 which seems more suitable time for most of the girls so i see well i i believe it's already a bit late for plus eight but you might still be up some points in today's match let's have a look at your game sure uh so here d4 e6 c4 please stop me when you think uh something was something else was possible to say so knight f6 knight f3 d5 g3 okay it's just a normal catalan until now and bishop g2 castles yeah and what about this queen d3 move because we did not know anything about it well i believe not so many people know many things about it but uh it seems playable and it was uh suggested to me before the game uh so i just thought that it's not a bad thing to try because okay it is uh not one of the usual moves and i wanted to surprise him a bit and make him think on the board we knew about the queen c2 move which looked very similar actually to queen d3 uh but what about this after c5 short castle c takes d4 knight takes d4 you are still in your prep right here i believe so yeah right uh knight to a6 c takes d5 looked very logical knight before queen b3 yeah so here he had a choice to take on d5 or to play e5 well i was not sure about e5 i mean i i i somehow remembered another line from my preparation but how was it uh after cd5 all right here after cd5 no after yeah i'm not sure if it was here or after okay yeah that's not this close to many things maybe you can still use that one so let's let's get no but um the thing is that after e5 knight b5 it becomes all very concrete and my opponent after the game he said that after knight bd5 he was sure that the correct move is knight c3 and really yes and i was also okay i also thought for a long time here because after rook d1 it's very very concrete yeah we actually were trying to make this one work out and we figured that bishop a6 might be and now after e4 knight f4 right um knight f4 is one of the possibilities the other one is knight b4 maybe and here okay i should take on d8 rook f takes i guess and after queen a4 a6 and well i mean i'm i have queen for rook but there are some problems still so i guess knight c3 here knight c3 yeah but okay then there are always some things with b5 and maybe knight c2 or trying to trap the queen i don't know so maybe i have to go with another the other knight to c3 and then just give a piece back right and now after it takes b5 you can take with the queen yes but i was thinking maybe not a b5 but what i was thinking maybe bishop d7 first i doesn't make any sense i don't know maybe yeah you could probably develop the bishop yeah but then i can develop yeah no i i don't know i mean i was thinking for so long because i could not believe that he's just going to lose a piece right so i was trying and after knight f4 what yeah there are a lot of interesting variations here because now after rook takes d8 yes bishop takes b3 take rook takes f8 i guess yes let's say it doesn't matter but then i just take on f4 no oh wait how was it then maybe there is knight e2 yes there was a knight e2 in between here so here knight e2 and now after king f1 take on b3 uh-huh and the point is that after bishop c4 check yes yes after rook takes f8 bishop f8 but if you take on e2 there is bishop c4 yes and after knight if you take on b3 there is knight c1 probably and then i can go something like knight d2 knight d3 and rook takes a7 right yes this is the point yeah it still it still looks like quite is fine here but maybe it was maybe not it might have been forced actually bishop e6 i believe might have been the only move no i thought so because after queen a5 i just didn't see for black how to continue the game after bishop d5 knight d5 queen takes queen takes and the point is of course that if rook d8 then i just take it and the bishop takes b4 right queen b6 rook d6 and i'm going to be a piece up rook d6 yeah yeah right because after bishop b3 queen f6 and then black is on time to save the bishop but after rook d6 i think he's just piece up for for white so right so basically it was a blunder for him right because he probably missed this b4 idea i i guess so yeah okay i mean he missed yes this maybe rook d6 at the end i don't know what exactly he missed but it was clear that okay after this bishop p6 okay he tried to of course get the maximum compensation what he has but i believe with some precise moves white should be not in too much trouble here because okay i'm a piece and a pawn up and okay i just have to be careful a bit with my development again right like like yesterday no like yesterday yes it was i also had some thoughts about yesterday that again i was collecting some pieces and still i had okay at least today i castled right quite quickly i actually checked your interview from yesterday and you said that with the black pieces you cannot really win without taking risks so yesterday it was your strategy to take some risks and try to score the point right well i try to score a point every day no matter how but yeah i mean today i okay katalan is not the most risky opening so but it's sometimes pleasant to play such positions that you don't risk too much and maybe if your opponent makes a mistake then it's quite easy to get into trouble so i don't know i guess i was a bit lucky that he didn't remember the lines and to be honest yeah i didn't see this knight f4 till the end i mean i didn't see the knight 92 intermediate check so probably that was the best and maybe he was right that knight c3 because i was thinking knight c3 is just slightly better for white instead of rook d1 but somehow i couldn't since i i couldn't see how exactly black is not losing a piece it was very difficult not to play yeah it was a very tempting one yeah all right what are your thoughts now about the situation in the match did you get a chance to check the other games not much to be honest because okay i know that we are leading plus three right but i have no idea what happened with the other games since i just finished mine so i hope that we can make some more pluses and have a better starting position tomorrow but of course to be five points behind in the last two rounds it's not an easy situation right of course but on the other hand okay in the first two days we made plus six so it's not impossible to do and we have to fight till the end and i still hope that we have a chance to win but of course it will depend very much on today's games uh well i have one more question for you before letting you rest and prepare for the last game uh we know that you have been the player who came to Gibraltar for almost for most of the times so you have been coming here for many years in a row uh tell us a bit about how what place does have Gibraltar in your heart for you and how has it uh influenced your career as well well it's obviously a very special place for me Gibraltar i missed only two editions actually and it was the first one and probably the third one so i've been playing every year since that time and i always felt very good in Gibraltar and with um brian kalahan steward conquest now laura and i mean everybody always made me feel at home here and i'm sure not only me but a lot of female players especially they feel great in Gibraltar and having the chance always to play some good games here it's very important since as you know very well there are not so many tournaments which we can play and have such high prices right of course this is also very important but it's not maybe even the most important but the most important is that we really get the chance to play with some of the best male players that otherwise we wouldn't play and i'm sure a lot of women made their gm norms here it's not my case because i got it before but uh i have seen every year there were there were many women players who played greatly here and i just i'm just happy that even with the covid situation and so on we are still playing here in Gibraltar and it's a very interesting new format and i really hope that we'll continue to have innovative events here in Gibraltar in the future as well great thank you very much for your time Antoinetta it has been great to to see you here finally you know and we will be taking a short break and then we'll be back to check the games we welcome back to round nine of battle of the sexes we just had Antoinetta Stefanova the hero heroine of the women's team winning back to back games in uh extraordinary style actually because you know they're about to be quite crazy games uh today Ravi just blundering as he did very rarely do you see that and you know she she told us that she just wants to win every game no matter of the color so that's it it will be very interesting tomorrow if she will manage to win her third game in a row actually agreed yeah and uh what it means is as thing stands the women exactly where they need to be plus three on the day three games remaining but we can say that Balash Chonka Balash the chomper Chonka is chomping again well yeah he might be on his way of scoring that point which might actually bring him a GM norm if he manages to to draw tomorrow yeah now this is a situation before I said it felt very difficult for Irene and she played Bishop b1 king a4 and this was his idea he wanted to sneak in and I don't quite know why she didn't try to keep you know I believe that the end game after bishop a2 bishop b4 might have been a quite a sad one yeah actually but still it looked like the best the best chance white could have tried and after she let the king come to be free yeah the position definitely looked bad and here bishop to e4 what a move what is this king c3 move by Balash because he was worried that after d takes e4 yeah knight c4 king c3 there is knight d6 yeah no no sure this this is this is good for white but why can't I play c3 good question what's going on here I'm kind of shocked actually maybe bishop d3 ah bishop d3 is her idea or bishop c2 even okay so let's say bishop d3 great suggestion and now somehow the point from c3 is having not the easiest time and the knight's coming to c2 huh right and if I go bishop c7 you just put this knight on c2 but then you could play bishop c8 yes king where king f3 king f3 now I can go king c1 king d2 but otherwise how do I protect that point on g4 no no I I'm not I'm not sure you can protect the pawn maybe I've no but f5 isn't a move I wanted to make yeah it looks like it was winning um yeah king c3 wow well it's interesting it could be really good because knight takes d5 check king takes d4 is the idea a new winner piece right that's clear what about bishop takes d5 you should take back I believe he wants to take take and king d4 right either king d4 or king d2 I don't know oh even king no king d2 runs into 93 actually and there's another even that is not clear right who knows what's what's going on there even that right king d2 93 c3 if you give check I go king d3 and you can't take c2 wins makes a queen but let's let's assume that he wants to go king takes d4 which is a natural move and his claim here is that this ending is winning and it probably is actually it definitely is probably yeah probably is just an easy win okay anyway yeah yeah so it looks like ballash is on his way of winning today and that will mean that the ladies will be up only two points let's have a look on on the other games let's go to pier oh I really like this h6 move if you are following us on the previous days you might know that we actually love this idea of bringing the point on h6 in an end game because then the point on h7 might might be in trouble let's just imagine the rook on g8 in this position then after rook g7 is just game over so perhaps white will have these kind of ideas yeah I think actually Julian has mishandled this end game greatly I I believe he is in big trouble here I don't see him defending this one to be honest okay so where is the breakthrough let's say I play like he's been playing with rook a8 I could play I believe f5 here okay I will take I will take back with the pawn okay okay and if I keep on passing already here you have to answer questions after rook to the rook d5 okay king e7 and I could even try I was thinking but I'm hurrying no let's let's move back after rook a7 I will first play a4 okay I have to pass and now I will play rook d5 okay and here I will try king c5 I think it's it's lost already because those pawns black has on f6 and on h7 are too far away so even if you will be able to collect say the h6 pawn my pawn on a4 will be queening faster looks very dangerous that's for sure and pia has got fantastic technique and I believe she she will be managed to win this one it's so difficult I mean even if the engine maybe would still hold this one I think from a human's perspective it's it's impossible impossible it's a bit stronger I don't know it should be Magnus Carlsen with black here and still he okay I don't know do you think Magnus would be able to make this one a draw yes you think yes okay so you play king c6 I'll try it okay so um rook wait I should think a bit rook c5 check seems fair okay now I actually have a decision but let's go back king d6 so I have two ideas let's try the first one I will play a4 now after rook a5 yeah I'm not losing now rook g4 check king e3 and now you will be coming to e5 yeah this is not the right way okay so how did you play this one well you went f5 and I took took and I just went king king d6 king d6 yeah or king c6 sorry I'm just passing so I should probably try and bring the king let's say king c4 now after king b6 my idea was to go for rook d5 threatening a check on d6 and now a big question where do I go and I think king king d4 yeah king d4 should be good it's close you know might might not be able to defend like this we'll see rook d6 rook f6 yeah it looks quite bad yeah I don't think I can defend like this I've got a bad feeling that this doesn't hold for black yeah I think even rook f7 yeah I don't like it yeah so the idea is that we have to keep the king on the queen side yeah for white let's try rook c8 oh no you got king b5 and rook b9 doesn't work that move definitely doesn't work okay and if I okay so if I pass what's the what's the breakthrough what's the big plan yeah yeah okay so ideally I should I don't think it's as bad as you make out for black I mean after all let's say I play a rook a3 rook a3 okay so if I put the rook on c6 now you want to come around or something yeah I want to bring the rook to g3 and then to g7 and collect the h7 pawn okay but king e5 is a problem oh wait yeah I cannot do that okay so I have to try that with you want to go rook d5 check and rook d3 yeah definitely okay now I go rook g8 again but now I have rook e3 maybe rook g4 check and the king comes to d5 yeah once I start getting like king d3 probably king d5 and then I can start putting you back and I'm quite happy because I'm I'm gonna get active and my king is too close it's still it's still challenging after king c2 let's say really no okay rook a3 king b2 and let's say rook a5 rook f6 and here rook f7 yeah king f something like this maybe I'm not sure wait what if I take on h7 maybe this one I've got to be a bit careful because you have like rook e7 rook e7 yeah okay h7 yeah and you've got some and the king comes yeah and this is it might still be a draw but I'm not sure if the king is cut yeah I don't I have absolutely no idea king b4 maybe you can just advance the pawn too quickly I don't know it's close I mean it's close there's definitely chances yeah so even even here but but I'm sure I played it badly around here around this point like once I get this I'm pretty confident like here for example I can go rook a4 immediately right which is obviously much better definitely yeah no I don't I don't believe that that's I don't believe that it's as bad as no I I just I just can't believe it's that bad now I don't know there must be a way to put on maximum pressure but I don't know but what okay so we have been trying this f5 idea right let's try the g5 one g5 okay so I think I should probably take right now I should take with the pawn I believe right and now I'm gonna go king e6 what about the move like king c5 no king f5 right king b6 yeah now I come wait a4 what no what's the idea okay I want at some point to collect the a6 pawn yeah but am I not am I not really fast here no I mean even if I go check right okay I've got king a7 actually king a7 wow okay rook b4 no no no rook b4 I want to cut king a6 okay and where's the where's my progress yeah king a7 okay I just pass and then you take both pawns yeah this is not good but then it means that this plan might not be good at all well you can go king e4 but what's the difference yeah no I know I'm just gonna pass and I'm just gonna ask you but wait here maybe I have rook c5 okay rook c5 rook e7 or rook or rook b7 I don't know let's try rook e7 so what are you saying that the opponent game is strong no no no no I don't I don't know rook e5 ah rook e5 sorry I blinded it's losing sorry rook e5 wins no no rook e5 just wins ah rook c5 okay let's are you gonna go a4 right this might be troublesome yeah I see that our viewers say that a3 was better before g5 but these are subtleties no really big subtleties I think the human way is to push one I like I like g5 much more than f5 let's put it like this this is yeah because we keep only one weakness so exactly so I like g5 much more yeah so Jillian still with a big task ahead of him to defend this really really tough what about Olga Giri is she holding or is things are things getting worse things are getting worse right yeah they are getting much worse because now that pawn on f4 is on a dark square and even the opposite colored bishop and games might be lost bishop b5 yeah she's trying to keep um she's trying to keep a a shield force field yeah now her point is that if black goes actually for the opposite colored bishop and game let's say knight c5 knight c5 king c5 she's got this important bishop d7 move and after taking on a five the bishop will actually hold the b1 square and also the h pawn is of the wrong color for black actually that might be a very big problem because if we sacrifice everything and we get with our king to h1 and black has only the pawn from h4 and the dark squared bishop it will be a draw yeah interesting could we hold on a second bishop b6 what's this what on bishop d7 she he just wants to go 96 and continue okay a long game there leandro has to give her 50 000 turns could we just have a quick look of how the game between guna and sabino ended because we felt that it was trouble for black could we just have a very quick look at it after bishop b4 what did he play he went e4 she took and played 96 check but okay okay 96 check king b8 and couldn't she just uh no she couldn't she went c5 which kind of looks logical rook d8 rook d4 but why not rook e1 here yeah what was the problem with this one isn't she just winning a pawn well i see that there are different ideas in the air for example let's just put in a random h5 move and now after 94 94 rook e4 there might be rook d1 queen d1 and queen e4 but still it's a pawn up right i mean right yeah there were a few ideas here so she probably saw these and wanted to just keep the tension with rook d4 rook d7 queen d2 rook c7 queen f4 ah she was banking on some tactics but missed 95 she missed this move must have because it's she's probably thought she could take or something but it but wait is it really working i don't get it 95 yeah queen takes e4 yeah what what is the big point here no queen e4 queen e4 94 so rook takes c5 queen takes e6 yeah this is still a better end game for white sure yeah why didn't she go for this queen takes e4 what are we missing oh knight c3 yeah knight c3 b takes c3 and queen b3 but is this what is this king c1 yeah this doesn't c3 maybe this is king d1 rook c5 oh wait rook c5 runs into mate in one queen c5 then queen c5 i don't believe it i don't believe it but you could just play something like king e2 king f1 king g2 yeah it's a bit strange bit strange yeah okay so i mean what happened in the game she went queen d2 she got spooked and she missed e3 as a shot and then rook c5 and rook c6 and that's the right and then suddenly the advantage is gone and actually this was a great moment to take a draw because the momentum definitely the momentum is gone okay so gunai possibly missed a good one there um chonka now completely winning right like this is just a this is just not even a uh this isn't a fight actually there's just no defensive resource well she is hoping that if black takes b5 you could take on d5 yeah she's hoping for that if you you can't i'm hoping i win the lottery on the weekend as well but if you push the d4 point the v okay there are very little practical very little practical problems for for black to solve here first yeah but definitely black is winning here yeah that's a huge win and leandro is still pressing but maybe not and she went with uh she went with f5 which we didn't like yeah we didn't like it no okay maybe no you i think rook f5 just doesn't help because king is six central g8 yeah so probably she will have to take but jillian has to take on f5 there is another way of continuing he has he will take he will take so f5 gf5 gf5 and we were saying king c6 no why not right and the players have bf has nine minutes jillian has 14 minutes it's quite quite enough time probably for for this end game it's good that jillian has an advantage a slight advantage on the clock yeah i see that many of our viewers are enjoying the format of the event and this is actually a great thing for us to hear because well it has been a great pleasure for us on commentating this as well absolutely and we also hope like like you do that we'll be seeing more of these types of tournaments actually and i see a lot of men saying that they are rooting for for the women's team here well we are also rooting i believe today for the women's team because that will mean that tomorrow will be a very exciting day yes we want i mean in an ideal world plus three today for the women would make it really really exciting i think if it just ends plus two um plus two so they need to get that would mean they need three what does that mean they need to get plus three tomorrow to tie no if it's plus two yeah yeah if it's plus two they can get plus three but they all have black but they actually did get a plus three with all blacks in the second round so it doesn't mean that it's impossible to achieve is jillian gonna draw this game what do you think i still i would still take ps chances here should we make today another bet on this one no because i i'm not sure i believe in jillian oh you don't i'm not sure it's a tough position he does play king c6 i mean you have to give me odds like if jillian wins i get three to one so for everyone i get three back or like i get five to one five to one five to one is a good deal i'll take five to one you i will have to ponder let's wait until they get until until pia has a winning position until they get less than 10 minutes both on their clocks and then i will uh okay i will answer you on that right now let's go to olgogiria let's try and work out if there's absolutely anything here and she's just standing it might it might be a draw but you know as we've been seeing a lot in this tournament a position in which the computer says it's drawn doesn't mean that will actually end in a draw right because also actually it was also olga who had that queens end game with a pond on and she was defending for a very long time against sabina and she blundered in the end and today again she's a pond on in a different end game maybe i'm not sure which one do you think was more difficult to this one or the other one the other one yeah because this one basically your idea for white is to stop this black king from entering right so this night covers here and this bishop covers here you cover the only weakness that is attackable which is f4 so you just have to find a way not to allow this king to enter you also know that the knight can never move and be traded because of the pond on f5 right yeah the only thing that black can possibly try to do i guess is to put the knight on d6 to protect this pawn and but even after that i mean what do you want to do with black it feels like a a thankless task right oh so um yeah we say some moves in the pia versus jillian game and she actually went for my rook a3 yeah i like rook a3 because it's exactly the line which we checked right is it no it's not we had some rook c5 check and then rook a3 we didn't we didn't actually check rook a3 no look it was in the king d6 rook a3 oh yeah it was slightly different i like this though because now rook g3 rook g7 is is real um and after rook g8 well i hung up well yeah rook a3 is excellent what if i you want to do why you want to do good question why you want to do could i play something like a5 actually a a5 okay so rook g3 looks very dangerous a rook g8 check okay i guess i'll put the king on e4 that's a good one maybe you have to get active now rook d2 yeah i was worried about rook g7 but perhaps i'm in time definitely rook a2 rook h7 rook h2 is just a draw easy draw because rook h8 i put my king on b7 right yeah definitely but wait sorry i go rook h5 first yeah or rook h4 first yeah sorry rook h4 much better excuse me rook h4 yeah because then if king b7 immediately i could try to enter on d5 then on e6 yeah this is a key move rook h5 check the king force it back and then go king b7 and we have this famous construction where i can just hold this position and every time she tries to go here i put my rook oh i have my a pawn i have a pawn yeah no this is this is this is just an easy draw okay so rook a3 so rook a3 so what are we saying a5 a5 okay i like it perhaps we could still play but yeah the problem here is that after king c4 king d6 yeah you want to go to e5 right what if i play rook e3 here rook e3 but you've got rook c8 well we carry on king d4 what about here we have to get active rook c2 rook e6 yeah king d7 rook f6 yeah and it's one of those where i could lose rook f7 rook h7 and actually i just it's just it's just losing for black you think it's already losing yeah because if i go rook h2 you've got the trick rook h8 check no king f7 sorry king f7 wait this is not losing is it no you still have the a pawn so the pawn and games are are drawn what a weird idea can't be good but you're worried a bit maybe you could throw in a king e5 or something instead of the check oh okay okay here for king e5 but then would it be better yeah it could be could be much better king f8 now yeah but now uh king of six uh king of six king g8 that should be a draw actually no rook g7 and eights no rook g7 okay i put the king in the corner oh wait i have a fantastic idea king e6 after king f8 yeah i will make this end game winning and rook a7 rook h6 f6 came over all right and if i give you a check king f6 and what's going on here if i take the a pawn isn't that one of those famous isn't this that famous draw but i'm not sure the b file is enough it's the b file enough here i'm very far rook a5 now you should first collect the h pawn i believe this one isn't good isn't this a draw well if you manage to make okay let's let's test your rook end game knowledge okay so let's try rook a7 first okay eight no rook a7 no i better i yeah rook f7 or king of seven rook f7 let's try king of seven first because i think it's a draw with the rook on the a file i'm not sure about the b file all right so if i go here f6 and this is just uh you have to play rook b8 rook b8 and how was the winning plan here isn't this one of those famous rules king g6 and now i have seven king g7 yeah i cannot play that so wait what could i try i could try to bring the rook to e8 rook a7 okay rook a8 but now you've got rook a8 yeah and this is a draw yeah this is a draw i think a lot of these f and h are draws but you know you need to know your stuff and there's still tricky stuff along the way okay let's look at the position because some so rooky so we've got wait what happened king c4 he went king b6 and rookie three and he's he's ooh i don't like what he's done he wants i think he gets no yeah no but he still wants to go for rook d2 probably but but now after rookie six show you can take on a6 first yeah and the king will be too far away yeah no i don't know this is lost well hold on this is lost no no no no wait i don't know if it's lost yet but it's it's definitely no but we barely made it with the king to g8 in the previous line here if the king will be forced to go to b7 it will be lost after rook d6 i have rookie seven you cannot do you know if rook d6 is is holding that's it's holding i think rook d6 okay so i'll try rook d6 rookie seven because rook d7 is not holding anymore okay and now rook d2 how do i make it work rook h7 okay let's try this one rook a2 yeah oh rook a2 yeah well yeah i yeah let's go rook a2 sorry rook a2 no rook i'm not sure which one i could try rook h8 here yeah but now i give check no rook h8 isn't good okay i will believe you on that rook f7 then okay let's collect all the points i'll still give check um king beef okay king somewhere king d3 let's say okay let's let's try king e5 king d6 and i think it might not be enough okay so rook f6 rook f6 king e5 rook f7 okay i'll go rook h4 h7 a5 easy draw easy easy draw can't we do something like maria did with eric no right not against me you might do it against eric you're not doing it against me yeah it's not the right way okay let's go back because i think i handled it badly okay so rookie three is on the board so no my question is after rookie six rook d6 is this a draw okay let's try it rook takes d6 king takes d6 i know but this is a draw this is because i cover e5 so king d4 king c6 yes so this is a this is not even like close yes yes this is definitely this is definitely a draw so rookie six rook d6 so you want to go rookie seven right yeah it makes sense okay rook d2 ah but here i can be smart okay play a three a three yes what is this rook f2 my point is rookie six now and now you go rookie six oh that's very smart i see a three okay so i have to pass or what if i go rook d1 now maybe i can try rook a7 okay i like i like this you like rook a7 king d6 ah but now you go to e5 but wait it's still unclear how is this why am i struggling so much here i think i think you were thinking it's more winning than it really is like i'm not sure it's winning that these are so i think it should be really yeah so a three was a nice try i believe and after rook f2 wait so rook d2 i have to make this work okay maybe i should play actually um rookie six rook d6 rookie seven yeah rook d2 what if i go now for a4 a4 try to bring the point as fast as possible okay i'll go rook h2 again rookie six you are missing it i'm blundering we have to go somewhere else oh i can go sorry i can't go king d6 i really like a4 rook d1 was your idea in the previous line yeah rook d1 what if i go for king b4 now king b4 rook d4 check king a5 okay rook a5 rook d5 king a6 really you're just giving up this pawn i don't know rook h7 yeah but the two flank pawns are also a draw even without this right in this position if you know if you know if you know if you know your rook's theory but but with the with the pawn it should be like really like but wait let me think after i played a4 rook d1 because it seems like i should be i should have something a4 rook d1 uh so how was it uh rook d2 a4 rook d1 yes how do i make it work what if i what if i go insane and i play a5 now i can give checks uh you're right okay so now i know a5 but how to win this rook hand game so i what did i try you tried king b4 let me try rook a7 then rook a7 yes okay i'll go again for king d6 i think so feels correct but i think i can protect now rook a6 okay king a5 rook a5 king a4 it was better than what i had before i believe no i don't think so because i'm collecting here as well i put the king on g5 it looks like it looks like it should be an easy hold i think it's tonight rook d5 rook d5 okay let me come behind rook a1 king b5 okay king g5 a5 a6 king b6 easy hold rook a5 surprise no but even that yeah a7 rook a8 yeah i think i think wait wait wait i think it's all i think by maybe no a8 i lose i lose you're you're losing this one i believe because you don't have time to play h4 rook h8 ah rook h8 loses immediately wait even that yeah it needs counting even the king might be too close on b6 yeah it might be like this uh where'd you put the rook oh no wait where was the right no but it's easy it's an easy win yeah this is not right okay so i can't i can't let you trick me yeah so what happened i went king g5 you went king b6 yeah yeah it's not so easy yeah so oh no check so i have i have to be careful so this you think this one's winning huh could be there are decent chances for that at least because the points are too too far away and that's exactly why this h6 was so important right curious yeah it might be winning no king g5 a5 at least pia can try she can try something yeah she can try and actually we see she played rook e8 oh we have something i'm rook d2 so very similar to what we've been looking at yeah here after a4 she will get the same the same position basically a lot of calculation and this late in the day very very very hard all right now i think do you still take julian's chances i can go for three to one now three to one really oh wow i yeah i'll take three to one that's he still has a great chance so what are we betting on whatever you want i don't mind you can choose this time okay today i took a long thought before offering this uh bet okay and i thought we will do challenges no no no let's you have to do three challenges no no no you're offering me three to one all right so you have to do one challenge i will have to do three ones but okay acceptable ones not insane no i would rather i mean for something like we can do challenges tomorrow but i think for this one we can just have we need a unit a unit a unit of something we can think about it yeah okay maybe our viewers have an interesting an interesting idea an interesting wager yesterday yesterday we were betting on a bottle of wine actually yeah and i won that one i have to say you are you are a bottle of wine up that is true let's go to another game has leandro made any progress the answer is no so i mean olga just holding the fort there beautifully so i see no other result and in this one well again not really much to discuss actually this night is being trapped now um so this is this is resignable for iran bishops c5 bishop d7 is going to win the night nothing to discuss in this game just two pawns and a piece and a winning position so the only really interesting soup game at the moment is this ending here rook d2 let's see if jillion and they they both have obviously very little time yeah and they don't have the opportunity to you know just try lines like we are doing they have to just see them in their in their head and i think she will go for a4 i really don't know i mean this it's it's just such a difficult spot um i think she has to go for a4 i'm very curious what uh yeah a4 a4 is really the only chance yeah she has to try or she's going with a rook maybe she wants to throw in a check on a6 no what is this ah this is clever wait no this is fine but there's king d7 no ah king d7 ah king d7 now we will get to those end games which you said and after rook a8 now we can just go like rook f2 and if she goes here king d6 and we get these endings which uh but this is similar to what we had wait this this this this move is not obviously ridiculous rook c8 and this is now the quite now this might be a good practical try because king b7 might be horrible okay definitely king b7 is terrible king b7 i wouldn't even consider that one even that even yeah yeah he can't go king b7 and he can't go king b6 and he can't go king d6 so he will go king d7 yeah i believe so i don't know but king d7 rook h8 wait this is her idea this is genius what is the difference i don't see it oh no now i can just take on a2 yeah basically and then king d6 king g5 yeah no this is this is a draw this is actually this is an elementary draw okay so jillion oh is jillion gonna save the day for the boys was i too early with with my with my bet i think three to one was very generous of you i mean you're basically saying that pier wins this position 75 percent of the time but i was confident that she she was gone and actually we see another result yeah that's has won against tyrene so it means that the ladies are now up with plus two today and overall the the man's team is up plus three right the men is up uh sorry yeah so they were plus five before today the ladies are up plus three yeah no the ladies are only up plus two yeah and overall overall sorry yeah plus three for the man overall with uh leandro's game where he's good yeah of course he has to just play forever and hope that she makes a ridiculous blunder but i just don't see it um and yeah well actually we have this question coming up every day about jillion's right way of pronouncing his name and actually we asked him and he told us that it's jillion i don't know if he just wanted to make life easier for us or not sure no that's just in his language i thought it i i started in the broadcast saying gillian but it's jillion yeah so uh there you go all right this game is just nothing i mean this is they're just going around in circles here so we really should look so king d7 rook h8 is on the board so let's go straight there so king d7 rook h8 but yeah this is just this is just the worst of the tries right by pia now you just take on a2 yeah and you see in all of this line the problem is that hanging one on a2 and the good thing about whites king on c4 was that it was controlling the d3 and d4 square so that's why a3 or a4 could have been much better tries because then the rook would have to spend two tempests on collecting the a pawn rather than just one exactly so king king d6 and yeah and now uh yeah i mean this is just this is actually just like an elementary draw because the other point is you can't stop king e5 so move like king d4 just runs into rook a4 checking king e5 and actually then black is better if you make a huge blunder here oh no no that would be well no it's still a draw i mean it's still an easy draw but black is better right it will be a very important king e8 what is this move it's losing it's losing well hold on hold on him no no no no no no no is it yes it's just lost what why is it just okay seven rook a7 game over it's game over king f8 h7 rook h8 king d5 king e6 king f6 and i put the rook on h6 but anyway you will lose the rook and games because the rook is on h7 i will be able to take on yeah so let's have a look so king d5 so i'll go a5 oh okay king e6 okay i will now go rook h6 and now ah now rook a5 rook a5 opponent game is lost king g7 rook a7 and king h8 and this should be still lost rook f7 probably is losing uh no tricks right rook h1 no rook f6 is winning probably oh but this is this is unbelievable this is unbelievable not to go king d6 king e5 is unforgivable no king e8 you you know you know you never put the king passive never go with the king back in the rook end game like never ever when your opponent gives you a check you never go back this is a this is a this is a catastrophic this is a catastrophic blunder by jillian now i don't know i mean king d6 is just immediately just a draw right even this rook h8 is winning what ah because the king no she's just had it all worked out we're just idiots the point is no this is easy winning because rook h2 h7 you can't play king b7 right this is genius no no no no no and then king c6 was done so hold on rook sakes h7 she he had to find the move king c6 only move well then it's not as easy as no no no no and king e8 has to be losing right let's just double check must be losing yeah easy win wow wow wow wow wow wow wow rook a7 rook h2 h7 and king d5 as you said oh wow what a heartbreaking loss for jillian just king d5 king f8 king d5 and he's gonna have to try some well i don't even know what he can try no but it's over oh my goodness but what a great i mean that's great for the tournament yeah that will be fantastic because then the ladies will be again up uh in in today's match plus three and that will be plus two overall lead for for the men's team yeah and then we have a real fight tomorrow right wow poor jillian holy wow he just could not hold king c6 only move sandor falcus says king c6 is sus as well because of rook f7 but not really right because now you can give a check force the king back and now you can play a move like king d6 and on rook takes f6 king e5 the f and h pawns with the king cut is is really not a winnable position right no no no this is this is no king c6 very instructive yeah it it is just fantastic how complicated these games are even with so so little material remaining right right and what what a fantastic win it would be for pia who lost the last three games i mean i'll be i'll be so happy for pia as well um right okay so she played let's have a look so what happened so so oh goodness i've i've lost the thread here ah what happened uh the rook c8 variation so rook d2 rook c8 rook c8 right king d7 rook h8 rook h2 rook h7 king e8 rook h7 now yep um rook h7 rook h2 right h7 king f8 king d5 e5 oh yeah and king d6 yeah nice this this is just heartbreaking he's gonna try rook h6 ah but rook h6 you can even yeah you can even uh yeah you can even take immediately because if you take i give check that's what i did king g7 i think now instead of taking on h7 yeah i played king g7 right but he's done something totally different he's gone a4 i mean this is uh yeah but it's this it's the same actually she can just take now but it's isn't it the same after king g7 yes yeah yeah it takes king g7 rook here king h8 but actually i have another way of winning this one i believe what if i play king of six yep rook h6 king g5 yep back and king g6 and i want to play h8 yeah that's that's an easy that's even easier easy easy win lots of lots of wins um wow okay let's quickly go back to liandro any point no they've they've played uh a thousand moves here and you know but it's only move 55 and if olga has to count uh 50 moves without a pawn being moved or any trades and they are again down to one minute each no will it be a no yeah i think it's just gonna be a draw i just don't see a way to to win there's just no opposite color bishops no weaknesses and she's just too solid um sandal farkas what do you think how many how many times would i win that play position against a lower rate of play what what position it depends against which type of player because there are players who are very good with their end games but are still lower rated you struggle with their tactics so but overall let's say if you would play against somebody rated 2300 let's say how many games in the it from what position though i don't understand let's say that rook and game which was with the rook on a8 and the rook on a5 in the moment pia played ah that position oh wow i don't think i would win more than 50 percent 50 percent yeah maybe maybe something like that also depends a lot on how many how much time the players have had on the clock because with little time it's very easy to go wrong so jillian just re-signed his game a great win by pia one which he worked very hard today to achieve because it looked like jillian was was really going to make a draw yeah and leandro trying every trick in the book but no good but pia well done uh what a what an important win for her confidence as well after losing three games in a row poor jillian just has not been able to compete uh this tournament really uh yeah i believe he's very disappointed but it might be a lot for him to learn after after this tournament i believe it's it's just a great you know overall experience to play against these kind of strong players and i really hope that he will be able to to make some important conclusions and to be back with being even stronger yeah i totally agree wow and look at that result the results panel there so many ones yeah a lot of white wins we haven't seen them in such a long while no not since round two right i think we can just get a big board of this game uh with uh we can i think olga is already checking her scores yeah looking for a three-fold repetition i believe or move 50 without moving on f5 was the last pawn move okay so move 43 was the last pawn move and nice yeah but do you know it's quite stressing when you're open and does that right yeah because you don't really have yeah and we saw her marking something on the scoresheet so definitely the three-fold repetition is in the air yeah balash is looking good for grandmasa says sandal who is who is also hungarian no doubt yeah balash just needs to make a draw a draw is enough for him tomorrow in order to achieve his gm norm was it the second he was saying would it be the second i think it's the second but i should point out i'm sorry we forgot to say this during the stream tomorrow the games start at 11 am right right forgot to say that the games start at 11 o'clock so that's four hours earlier they're normal so if you're watching from the us get up early if you're watching from europe get up early if you've got work forget it work is cancelled tomorrow is the day oh no was i was going to say there's a move here there is no move don't worry no need to panic night of two he goes for the h3 pond but i could protect it in so many ways right yeah it's nothing king g2 should be fine bishop f1 is fine f1 looks fine definitely probably king g2 to not allow the king to i know that king g2 then you get stretched with bishop e3 do you no even that is not no because you cannot really take no pawn as the knight is hanging four am the f me evangelist yep four am get up at four am set your alarm no excuses eric rosen versus iran tsukanda oh that will be a fun one to watch do you think they are going for for each other or will it be a no they have to know they have to fight they have to fight no question will their friendship pass this test you have to fight there are no friends on the chessboard you know if i was playing my wife god there are no friends i think on the board i think once once you will get married you might change your opinion on that lorenz no if i played my i would crush her what are you i would try to what is this this is a game this isn't a marriage well you don't think a husband should try and crush his wife on the chessboard well it depends because the wife might try the same thing and you know that's fine in the end somebody might end up sleeping on the balcony good i hope she has a blanket no i i think you should though i mean i know a lot of these couples they end up making a draw and stuff but i'm not really sure like in a competition like this where every point counts it's very much against the spirit of the composition i would be very disappointed if a couple made a draw but you know if the friendship is strong then okay it's just a game of chess i mean the game is over and then you can get it can't affect it yeah you can't affect the friendship or the relationship it just can't it just has nothing to do with it and it might be actually a lot of stake tomorrow so when you have a team competition it's especially different because if it's just an individual tournament then it's it might not be the case you know yeah to get in trouble in your household yeah like let's say it was a different situation where let's say you know you you were playing your husband and for you to win the women's prize which is a huge amount of money you needed a draw right even then it's kind of bad because you shouldn't pre-determine a game and you you know it's still not really in the spirit of the game but that's more understandable but in a tournament like this where every single half point counts and it's a team event and it's a team event it's a team event no i i i've seen and also erica's got white so come on i mean i would be very disappointed if he made a draw tomorrow very yeah i agree with you on that one yeah all right meanwhile this game is just going on i mean no progress has been made for 40 moves it's they're just going round and round and round and liandro just hoping for some kind of random blunder you know one of the dangers in this position is to get too obsessed with checking if there's a free folder repetition or not run low on time and then just make her own random move and blunder yes so she cannot really afford going too low on time yeah yeah but it's really hard to blunder she's found a construction she's moving the bishop back and forward i mean she's she she knows she's just so experienced i just cannot see olga making a mistake here right night c1 you know she's look how alert she is look at this this is beautiful night c1 now and she's ready to meet any attack on f4 with 93 this is just good chess yeah actually 93 might be already now but also it's there's no point in changing the fortress so maybe there is no reason to go with the knight on d3 on c6 night just to keep it on b3 of course night b3 yeah of course night of course she will play night b3 nothing to do nothing to do and that's it oh no it's the scoresheet okay matthew car our arbiter bringing the scoresheet leandro trying everything in the book and not succeeding basically right but he definitely remembers his team captain's game against olga and he is going to try for a while here yeah he can try until there is no more try left that's it there's just but of course the point is that it there is there is nothing to do but have you noticed that some of the players are wearing the masks and some don't yeah i see olga with it olga and minneta yeah a lot of guys are a lot of guys aren't each to their own the competition is the rules are clear you can wear a mask if you want oh and look we've got pia still in the playing hall yeah she's hoping for olga to hold this this draw sabino still there yeah the arbiters keeping keeping an eye on the game yeah i wonder i wonder how much more will leandro try here i believe that until olga will claim a three-fold repetition or 50 moves he has no reasons to agree for a draw earlier no no he has he shouldn't be making a draw here under any circumstance until the game is officially drawn questioned by ars are all the players vaccinated and or tested yes is the answer we get tested every single day um and i believe the majority of players are at least double vaccinated i don't know the exact figures but my understanding is at least double vaccinated most have got a triple vaccination yeah i think it's great that we have this safe environment because when you know that everyone is negative then you somehow feel you know calm and just you don't have to think about other things than chess right uh bobby bobby who is bobby our bobby uh bobby chang yeah uh bobby bobby has been very solid he's we haven't spoken about him that much in this tournament i would say in general it like compared to other players because he's just he's just been solid and good and uh uh he's he's been a big asset for the men's team yeah he's been really solid and it's really important on a team to have players which uh you know that are never going to lose a game and somehow here it was uh it was the case for bobby he was very close actually to to losing to john sya in one game but he managed to save that one he did throughout the game he was better than worse than lost but then in the end he found really good resources to to make that a draw and actually in all the other games he was never in real trouble right exactly exactly yeah yeah actually pia is the women's team captain and sabina brunello is the men's team captain and we will actually have them over here after this game is finished to to hear their thoughts and to see what are their plans for tomorrow if they're going to disclose them of course well i mean the plans are clear it's the preparation that's going to be interesting uh and uh you know yeah uh it's going to be just fascinating the women will have to win on demand with black not easy but uh at this level i would say it's not like at super elite level where if you really want to make draws with white they find a way i think here you can play stuff and and try and make it work and leandro just having just no success here at breaking through just but it also depends a lot of the player style i think in this range of rating because for example if somebody tells me uh and i'm an aggressive player irina go and make a draw tomorrow with white it's just it might just work very well against me you know because my style is to play uncompromising chess let's say and if i play a different style then i might go wrong right so you want to stay true to your style basically yeah and just play a game yes sure okay sometimes if i see that there is a line which is like draw on move 10 if my opponent plays the berlin for example i could i could make the draw but other than that i believe in all the openings there could be still a fight it's not like if you go and the engine says minus one or plus one it's game over like we've seen throughout the tournament right yeah agreed absolutely uh question by abdallah aiman says i wonder if maria is going to play more aggressively tomorrow given that women desperately need to win or is she going to make a quick draw there's absolutely no chance that any woman tomorrow is allowed to make a quick draw that will be an instruction from pier if they are losing losing the match by two or by three how on earth can they make a quick draw the women probably probably let's assuming this is a draw now they will be plus four today right um no sorry no plus three one two because they lost a game sorry plus three so yeah plus two overall for the men's team for the men's team so the men will be up two games going into the last round you can't make quick draws you need to make those two points somewhere and maria i don't know who she's playing and we'll have a look at the pairings hopefully we can get the pairings perhaps we can work on that actually uh if the if the uh yeah those are the pairings they can we get them for tomorrow as well can we have a preview yeah that would be that would be great that would be great maybe we maybe we can organize that already and uh yes they are playing for a huge prize fund huge the difference basically means five k pounds for each player yeah that's the difference that's the difference between winning the match and losing it so yeah so if you lose the match you get wait what happens if they have an even score well then i know there is uh more chess so perhaps we can get information on that as well or maybe tomorrow maybe what we'll do tomorrow is we'll speak to the organizers and before the round or when we do the preview before the games we can explain what happens in the in the event of a draw but i do know for a fact there is more chess and you know what the good news is what we also get to charge more really no we don't i was thinking that we are gonna play against each other and that would be the decisive point hey i we can do well early in the morning right okay so uh yeah big fight waiting for for us tomorrow huge fight huge it's gonna be really really exciting and actually you know what i was thinking that yeah an important difference will also be the fact who of the players are early birds and who wake up very difficult in the morning well let me tell you this in the you weren't here because you came later but the first day we had the technical meeting yes and originally the proposal to do the coronavirus test was at eight o'clock in the morning and this was met with a groan of uh unhappiness let's call it that from the women's team they especially i i can't i can't remember who it was but one of the women said i've never woken up at eight o'clock in the morning in my life you know we're in a chess event i can't remember if it was maria or jansaya or maybe it was maria so maria musichuk said i've never woken up at eight o'clock in the i mean for a start well i think only to catch a flight she said i think she exaggerated a bit because i recall playing against each other in i mean as teams in the bundesliga where on sundays we get to play at nine a.m. in the morning okay so it's even worse so she definitely played and i think it was a slight exaggeration slight exaggeration what about the men's team are they waking up no they were all okay they were like yeah sure we'll do it eight in the morning so i feel i so now so that makes me think you know but if we're starting at 11 they can get up at 9 30 and they it's it's kind of okay but eight eight o'clock to do the corona test was too so in the end what we're doing is we're doing them in the evenings after the game all right so that's as a result of the women's protestation no they said we will not wake up at excuse me like hello i i used to get up at six in the morning five thirty in the morning getting on the tube every day to go into london waking up at eight a.m. morning eight a.m. yeah i was getting up at six thirty in the morning every morning really of course i had a real job you know suffering every day i think i don't believe you but all right what do you mean you don't believe me i don't think i'm waking up at six thirty in the morning i was what it used to work in the city i used to go into london every day no i mean here oh here no here here i'm not getting up here i'm not getting up is it no i'm saying in the past i have and when maria said i've never gotten up at eight o'clock in the morning you know there was a time when i was a university student when i was going to to school and i used to wake up but it it seems like it was ages ago yeah yeah i mean uh it was a long time ago since i did that that's true but still okay so uh i think that well they're still playing of course they've got a minute each i what i'll do is nothing has happened so this position here you could have uh gone to the shop bought yourself uh you know a pint of milk come home cooked an omelet and had a nice cup of tea and nothing has happened so liandro is just trying to find a way there is no way the recent and he's moving around until the inevitable happens which i think is move 97 and we're on 68 question for you do you know what they prefer breakfast in argentina argentina yeah because i believe the andro is from argentina what is an argentinian breakfast that's a good idea i don't know do you know i have no clue oh no no i know on the other hand what would be a perfect russian breakfast yeah i know russian breakfast yeah what is your guess um what did i used to have like bread and meats and cheese sometimes yeah uh i guess the dark bread right yeah dark bread meats and cheese and egg is something hard but they have something very specific and these are very little uh pies from cottage cheese which they fry in the pan yeah they are called actually sirniki right sirniki you probably know them and then you eat it with sour cream or with honey uh those are my favorites yeah i don't think Olga's getting she can have a nice plate of cumberland sausage bacon and baked beans which has been by the way what we've been eating with a bit of fruit and whatnot i fully expect to uh have a heart attack before the end of the round tonight c5 she's gonna play night c1 nothing has changed she's just keeping the porn at bay and actually we have the pairings oh we do let's let's bring that up on the full screen i will keep an eye on the game if in case anything happens but let's put the uh let's put those pairings up can we get that as a full screen so we can see here we go eric rosen against irie we already spoke about this eric will go for the win it doesn't matter about their friendship relationship whatever eric is going for the win all right sabino against abumalek that can be that can be a huge fight i expect that to be nothing else humongous huge fight jillian against gunai what a chance for gunai tomorrow with the black pieces she will go against the tired jillian now he's lost all his confidence what a spot for gunai huge that's a must win i'm not so let's do this let's put the games as a must win game that is a must win game yeah must win game for gunai well who's saying versus pia what what are your thoughts about this one i i don't think i i'm not saying it's a must win game but i'm saying it's a game that they would really want to win so let's put it like that bill eleganz marie marie is fully expected not to like marie they will tell marie pia will tell marie tomorrow solid try to make a draw yeah don't why don't just be play like you and make a draw definitely bill eleganz has been scoring fantastically in the last actually in the last week yeah he's been fantastic let's look at the next five leandra against maria maria will be instructed not to lose and not to try to win you think so yes 100 percent i'm telling you the game this is the game antonetta stefanova yeah i think this is must win must win must win against joe gallagher yeah if it's a two-game advantage antonetta stefanova against joe has to try and win and maybe olga as well is going to be given against ravi against ravi just because what happens a day with ravi she you know they might say just try and keep chances alive because i try to keep the game running for for a long time yeah yovanka black against bobby is well i mean bobby might actually try to try to win this one like quite seriously and ballash with white but yovanka actually should be in a much better move now mood sorry now because she won a very nice game today against joe and that's why i think that joe might be in a variable mood today wait wait wait wait wait we have oh my goodness what what am i seeing has the have the wheels come off the bus how could it be happening let's go back to the game breakfast let's go back something has happened he tricked her he put the night look at this after 96 she didn't play the move 92 or 93 and she allowed the swindle knight takes f4 i can't adam and eve it oh and after king takes f4 you don't lose a piece because of bishop h6 check king f3 and bishop takes c1 and this position is losing because the pawns are separated by three there is still there no with the extra pawns it doesn't matter if it's a queen square or not the pawns separated by three files and this is an unbelievable unbelievable moment this is why this is why you never accept a draw there is black you fiddle around for 50 moves why are you so happy about him winning i mean i'm just excited in general i'm not necessarily happy about him winning but it puts an entirely different um context and situation on the board because now uh you know um but the chances have just decreased massively fantastically no no no i mean this this is just this is just phenomenal and and and the boys they'll be watching this celebrating champagne parties at the hotel no no no not yet oh my goodness i can't believe it i actually can't believe she fell for it and she'll be she'll be sick no but she'll be sick and it's the second game it has happened it's the second game she'll be sick she's got her hand on it she can't believe it and she's wearing the mask the only good thing is she's able to hide her emotions because she'll be sick she's gonna try and play on bishop bishop g8 but now this is just the king comes to see free and it's game over yeah it's just well yeah i'd say you have to be a little bit careful i think oh so suddenly i have to be careful you are saying it's game over well it is but you have to just be precise for example if you go king d4 i go bishop h7 right and what about f4 f4 king g4 and suddenly you lose your age pawn mm-hmm but it's still winning king e3 it's still an easy win the pawns are probably probably but you know you you don't want to see ghosts i mean there's just no need to do that right so you reposition the bishop on g5 right you like put it i don't you are still not protecting both pawns right sorry after bishop g5 what is the difference i play bishop f7 let's say and after king d4 bishop g6 anyway and after f4 i have king g4 attacking the bishop ah but then the two pawns are running yeah then the two pawns are running and also i can i can also put the bishop on g3 for example yeah and then and then bring the king put the pawn on f4 and then i don't lose any pawns yeah there is no no ray of hope here no hope no hope lots of ways to win just i'll double check but it's yes just it's over wow and leandro just needs to hold his concentration just for a few more moments he does go king d4 okay he's probably seen the same variation you did he's probably seen the same variation king d4 she's gonna go bishop e6 same idea wow what a fantastic will to win i should say by leandro yeah and how he handled this it was literally the last little trick in the position the only one amazing so he has to go f he can go king e5 he might go back with the king actually get some time on the clock f4 is good enough f4 is good enough of course no he he goes back he's he's a professional player leandro you know he's just gonna double check not make sure make sure bishop g8 and now he wants to see if there's a slightly more precise way of doing it which is which is great leandro so what does that mean so if leandro wins that means the girls will only have one by one point is it is it one two two points two points plus two meaning the boys will have plus three meaning the last round the girls need seven out of ten to make a tie seven and a half huh six and a half six and a half to make a tie yeah and seven to win yeah six and a half out of ten hey that's that's that's that's let's go back to well actually no let's let's stay here because we want to see leandro and he does play bishop g5 i see somebody in the chat saying that erik and dolga should do dinner tonight well they have both missed big chances today definitely i'm again sad you know what after what i thought would be a great day for the ladies team it's still a good day but it's not a great one and now i don't know i might lose my appetite for tonight's dinner actually king d4 what yeah you're not gonna eat just why are you sad it was it could have been you're much better than than this it's still it's still good it's still good it's still good it's still action tomorrow we still got it's not an anti-climax yeah but it's gonna be tough plus plus to score plus three but actually it's what they did in the second round exactly they scored plus three with all black pieces anything is possible they might all get coronavirus tonight hold the guys yeah yeah that's chance they might all test positive okay let's not hope for that no let's not hope for that fingers crossed of course oh okay king d4 bishop e6 of course she can play bishop e6 why isn't she playing bishop e6 it's a good try yeah i mean she played it before leandro plays king c3 then she can take on f5 and it's a draw yeah so she plays bishop e6 of course i think he's gonna go back calculate you know a little bit and play f4 you i mean but you don't want to go f4 here right king g4 but still king e3 oh you just want to do it like this sacrifice the bishop and f3 f3 you cannot hold both points f2 bishop c4 and b3 yeah that's actually very simple but but she might not go for king g4 after f4 basically probably that's really maybe she can just play something like bishop f7 and wait for the king to go on c3 and then play ah it's lost but now you just go b3 yes now you can't even now you now you now you got two runners yeah it's really lost it's really lost yeah leandro does go f4 goes for it nothing to lose let's see what she does i mean yeah even even if the men's team will have a party tonight it will definitely be after the testing they won't have any parties i can tell you that look no no parties well look let's be honest for people who are just tuning in seven and a half thousand pounds if the men win for most of these players and i would actually if i had to bet none of these players have ever won seven and a half thousand no that's not true that's not the case and try not to know in the men's team ah all right in the men's team no in the also maria was world champion no no no no the women's team most of them have won that but in the men's team i don't think seven and a half they've ever won i spoke to joe gallega he's won like five thousand rosen never of course sabino maybe has i don't expect bobby has billel definitely hasn't i spoke to him jillian hasn't hussain hasn't i spoke to him and ravi has to be the biggest price and biggest price in their lives in chess half of them aren't professionals that's the other reason right right so they don't get the they don't play candidates or anything like this so it's a huge prize plus maybe a small fee when they started so it's a massive deal i mean definitely let's put things into perspective for somebody like jillian who lives in zambia i don't know how much of a yearly salary seven and a half thousand pounds is but i imagine it's a lot definitely you know it's a lot of money definitely now it will be a still of course a huge fight tomorrow but yeah the chances have decreased and the king is already on c3 and i feel gutted for olga i really do so when king c3 uh king e2 king e2 and actually i see somebody saying that being a chess player is like having an art degree yeah i could see the similarities actually yeah so b3 king d1 b2 uh bishop g6 f3 roadrunners but uh wait after f3 yeah play king e1 king e1 okay i'll go uh one last bishop f4 king oh sorry bishop e3 sorry bishop e3 sorry let me not blunder my pawn yeah bishop e3 okay bishop f5 bishop f5 okay now i will give the check king e2 king e2 and now i'll come here bishop b1 and you're gonna try and uh yeah okay and i can come around here as well that's so unlucky that i can aim for this pawn probably so okay maybe i can just do this king okay let's just stay use b1 let's say let's uh come around here king f1 okay king g2 okay now i'll come here bishop c2 and i'll now now i'll come in yeah there are probably million ways to do it but ultimately the point is you can't really not do it because you just by process of elimination right uh you get there even without the h pawns he has played king b2 which is actually probably just king b2 much better king b2 because the king wants to go to c1 oh no this is this or a one right yeah no no this is this is a game over yeah oh wow actually the girls are winning today but only with a plus two score we were hoping i mean i was definitely hoping for it to be a plus three because olga's game looked uh like it would end in a draw but then she literally felt for the only remaining trick in the game but we have to say that they were both very low on time so yeah it's a shame but that that that is why you know that's what grandmasters do they and then and then that moment where you have to find the trick and yeah this is just over for olga she she can resign now she's shaking her head gutted for her apps she put up a marvelous defense and yeah poor olga just feel gutted for her yeah she's shaking it's time time to hang up the gloves for this game it's it's there's nothing to do now huge win for the andrand huge win for okay i can say huge win for the men's team um little little win no but this win this win is just so huge yeah it gives the men an extra bit of room for tomorrow to have a mistake here are the results from today two winners for the men leandro chris are after a brutal mistake by olga winning balash chonka the most reliable guy for the men so far but look at those wins for the women yovanka winning antonette's are winning pure winning jhansaya winning right meaning after today the results are that the women have got plus two there is a three-point deficit with one game to go one round to go tomorrow so it means that tomorrow out of 10 games the women's team has to score three wins and the other games should be drawn and then it will be an even match yeah so if they get three wins it's an even match if they get four wins they win right the pairings again for tomorrow eric against iran sabino against jhansaya jillian against gunay hussein against pier and maria against billel against marie uh leandro against maria musichuk ravi against olga joe against antonetta bobby against yovanka and balash against marcelle and i wonder if now sabino is gonna talk to ravi and say hey buddy she's just played a six and a half hour game five and a half six hour because she's exhausted she's blundered twice in a row keep the game going because she's gonna be really a target yeah i believe that that might be the case and actually uh the fun is not over yet are we gonna get the team captains here i believe so yeah i i we may very well do so what we'll do is we'll take a short break and then we'll have yes we do have the team captain so we'll be back in just one minute where we'll get the reactions from both captains today about this dramatic end what an end today is round i'm out of breath right let's hear from them in a moment and we'll see you soon in a couple of minutes at the battle of the sex is uh round nine wrap up with the team captains grandmaster pia crumbling and grandmaster sabina brunello so a great a great day today by the ladies team a plus two win finally such a long awaited victory what are your thoughts thoughts about today's match oh i do it was great how the girls played so i'm very very happy and it it shows that when anta annetta has come back it has given an injection to the whole team and so yeah it's a very good match yes it's a pity we needed to make it a little bit earlier so we still have still minus free so it's still very difficult but okay we have been fighting very well today and you yourself went won a very instructive rook end game yes i mean it was uh rook endings are normal and it was a draw but probably this is just for for for my opponent to give the a pawn but black wanted to defend it and then i had more active pieces but i think that that would be the normaliest to activate the rook and let me take on a seven right uh what about your thoughts sabina how are how is your mood today your team lost by two points but you still are in the lead by three points what are your thoughts about today's match about the situation overall yes it was a very tough tough day for us i'm not very happy of course we knew it was going to be a hard round black pieces so close to the end of the tournament and yes i hope we can do better tomorrow because i think we we need to write definitely tomorrow uh the man will have all whites and the women's team will have all blacks the ladies need to score three victories a plus three score uh what do you think sabina i think it's great that leandro managed to win this final ending it's great for the mood it's an extra half point well deserved the thing because he he had an advantage throughout the game he played great chess and yes i'm very happy what about you pia what are your hopes do you think do you think the ladies can make it tomorrow we will have to try we have to play a good round and then we'll see what we will do but at least it's the situation is better than it was before so so we just can yes just try our best tomorrow and just one last question the round tomorrow starts at 11 a.m so four hours earlier than usually um what are the feelings of your teammates about this fact i didn't ask what about you pia do you think the girls will be up for for a fight so early in the day or they will have to they will have to but i think just play is normally we don't like so much morning rounds we like to have the schedule the same as every day but but this is how it is in lots of tournaments you have to play the last round earlier right so thank you very much for your thoughts i definitely hope we will see a great fight tomorrow so don't forget tomorrow 11 a.m we will have the last round of the battle of the sexes so for now thank you very much and have a nice race rest see you tomorrow thank you