something like queen e8 check here it will actually lead to to a mate very soon yeah and that's why Marcel played 93 she's eyeing up queen e8 and suddenly the pawn on b4 is on pre and does that mean that she she's gonna have upon up I don't see a way of protecting it but perhaps losing only upon in this position is not that bad of of news for Ravi because might have been actually even worse it could have been worse but I'm not even sure it's that bad for black somehow um how could you how could you continue here something like bishop f5 bishop f5 is is definitely a move bishop f5 is definitely a move but now I could take on b4 with the knight and then you have to be careful about g4 ads because that's gonna be a fork so perhaps not immediately but you know at some point but now if I play knight f4 for example all right so d5 is protected I don't have to worry about that one perhaps something like oh but you might want to take on h3 with the bishop yeah I've got bishop h3 or queen g6 and hold your horses why don't you just take on h3 immediately does it work of course it works I'm not sure oh you're not sure can it be looks like a simple tactic because there might be some intermediate moves okay even though I'm not sure which ones bishop takes h3 by Ravi Haria did he play that yeah he played it of course he played it oh god well I mean it's not the end of the world for white that's for sure but actually you know it crossed my mind that white could have actually played knight c4 instead of knight d3 just trying to get to e8 with a tempi so yeah I'm not sure what was wrong with that one I just assumed that knight d3 might be fine as well but maybe maybe queen e8 isn't such a big deal after I go queen g6 if you go queen e8 yeah I know I'm 95 and your bishop takes h3 doesn't work huh not sure I have to take on g6 I believe and how is this one might might take on I don't want to take it take on h3 let's say you take on g6 and now some rook c1 how is this okay a5 yeah you might be in trouble could be this could be bad yeah but all right that moment evaporated quite quickly so let's just have a look at the position on the board after knight d3 and bishop h3 did did Marcel just miss just miss that one I think she probably just missed it oh but and wait we've got a result Olga against Hussein yeah did Olga win yeah Olga won so Olga won that's no surprise there I don't really know what's going on here but I have to say the momentum shift could be quite serious and Marcel has to be oh she's she's disappointed I don't know it still feels like it shouldn't be too bad but I can't quite find a clear a clear way to proceed I think it's all right to take on h3 maybe check and king h2 queen d3 I guess and now something like queen b4 maybe even though it looks a bit shaky your king does look what did she do she played queen e5 that's a sort of move I was looking at what about queen g6 yeah so is she gonna play queen g3 no she can't the knight is on h5 oh yeah what about queen g6 then well let's play knight f4 I think all right is it queen h2 but it's an ugly looking move so ugly goodness what's the idea after queen g6 I'm also trying to work it out so I'm threatening mate and I'm threatening the knight is it to go 91 yeah maybe knights we won oh yeah that that move has a point because now the queen from e5 is controlling very well the e file so you cannot really bring the rook towards e8 or something and knight on h5 cannot jump to f4 okay let me put a move here I know it's ugly oh I know it's ugly I don't trust this one me neither it's horrible yeah I actually feel disgusted that I mentioned it I could probably play no okay or even you want to play after queen c7 rook e8 right yeah I want to I want exactly I want to just get this rook in and remove the defender what about d6 here okay king h8 h8 yeah you're doing all right I mean I don't know you've got ideas bishop d5 bishop d5 knight f4 fine and d7 now yeah do you really how how how brave can I be can I be a genius no I can't no it doesn't work like of course you can't play this move I was just I'm just desperate to get this rook to e8 so no but on the other hand the point on c7 is hanging so it's not that clear no absolutely not I mean this could be a really good really good move taking only five might also not be great because then we capture back with the knight and then the point on f7 might run into trouble after a move like d6 exactly so in fact I don't think he's gonna go queen g6 I've got a thought that he's gonna play bishop g4 but then f3 but then f3 yeah and you're still same idea could be bad could queen e5 just could be a killer no I think it should be all right but black has to find a more precise way of playing this one out yeah so queen g6 looks fine because then we force the knight to e1 now we should come up with with something what about a move like queen to g4 could that work what what's the idea knight f4 oh you want to play knight f4 I don't know also looks smelly yeah because of something like f3 no f3 or even king h2 what about knight f4 now it's not made it's a draw right yeah and if I now go f3 queen h4 g3 no that's not working out no so what else I don't know could be really bad forever could just be bad what if I go back with the bishop bishop f5 let's say if you are taking on c7 is it gonna be just terrible for me looks awful yeah and actually he he played he played queen g6 she's gonna play knight e1 it's it's not even a not even a doubt because there is no other move and knight e1 and look at the clock now Ravi's got only one minute and Marcel has 22 and yeah we're struggling to find a good continuation for black here and I'm wondering will Ravi probably won't feels really bad maybe a move like king to h8 actually oh yeah I'm proud of that shaking his head king h8 yeah because now I want to make those ideas with f6 work oh okay yeah not bad but bishop c2 maybe oh and I don't okay f5 what to do yeah you have to go f5 now look here it is coming that's true but perhaps after queen h2 I might just lose a piece oh yeah that's a cute move that's cute yeah so looks bad I see Ravi losing this today interesting does that mean that bishop takes h3 was actually a bait he played bishop f5 but this is of this is a very sad move to make yeah bishop f5 now oh yeah that was exactly what I thought but maybe after queen c7 but after rook c8 I can even take on b7 no yeah queen c7 is just is just too good oops maybe then bishop e4 doesn't threaten anything that's true yeah I don't I don't like it especially with a minute on the clock that's going to be a tough one for for the man's team yes all right let's carry on let's go to another game which looks critical and very quickly Joe Gallagher I mean we haven't really looked at this game for a while but I mentioned I really loved the way Joe was playing and that has not really changed I think this position is probably better for black but it's nothing decisive yet because you could argue that the bishop on b2 is a bad piece but the bishop on g7 isn't exactly a great one either right no and she just plays the move knight c1 yeah that makes sense because then you could play something like rook a1 maybe at some point the bishop will come to f1 that makes sense and there is quite a big problem that black doesn't have so much time again so it's interesting that all the ladies I believe are pressing on the clock today I think this might actually be one only game which might end in a draw this draw no you don't think so no how do you make progress with black h5 all right you want to play bishop h6 I could spot that but that still won't be a problem for me what about rook a1 just ignoring your threat queen somewhere let's say e8 queen e8 yeah because if I go queen c6 bishop f no queen c6 but also bishop f1 let's try queen c6 sorry because I want to keep pressure on e4 definitely oh yeah now when I left with the rook I cannot put any pressure on the point on b3 okay so let me think what should I do let's try to bring the queen somewhere queen or maybe the knight can move wait knight is free okay oh I like this move I mean it's complicated my instincts are telling me black is doing very well though that's but but I could be wrong I'm not I mean I I don't actually say that black isn't doing okay I'm just saying that it's not that bad for white I I see some good squares for for white pieces and I think Irene's not in big trouble okay all right let us then go to a game where perhaps somebody is in bigger trouble and let's go back to Jean-Claire's game because this is just wild oh let's check this one yeah actually so we had well I mean we can't we just don't have enough time there was a kind of repetition and then Jean-Claire decided to play on yeah she did she wants the win today knight she three let's just go to the current position it's 33 moves in we should take say six but you know what so it's five to five if we can't count the points but the problem is that black pieces are very poorly coordinated that rook on g5 it's very unclear to me what is it doing there not much no well it's protecting a pawn but I'm not sure black pieces are that bad are they because now some threats against against here are look reasonable but okay you don't really want to play a free because then after b3 ah then maybe you but I'm threatening bishop a3 am I not here isn't that just to you know why just plays let's say why play those I'm just worried about to move like c4 actually c4 immediately because then you have to do something about bishop b5 so probably the only move is actually bishop to c6 or bishop to f3 there there were yeah so let's say bishop c6 now will you have any useful moves after rook d3 let's say or I'm not sure which rook to bring maybe you can make a bishop c5 maybe I can go e4 e4 ah because after knight takes c4 you've got rook e5 rook e5 or rook a5 I wasn't I wasn't yeah maybe it's not as easy as I thought no this is definitely not an easy position c4 apparently is on the board though I don't know if it's a good sign or a bad point we're gonna soon find out what's going on here but uh yeah and this is this is what I was thinking yeah bishop f3 knight e4 yeah that's that's a very important move because as you've illustrated some moments before black can't try upon sacrifice with e4 just freeing the rook from g5 and this 94 move somehow eliminates this option yeah and now exactly no yeah that's why he played actually bishop to c6 instead right so bishop to c6 but here I could still go for 94 right you absolutely can play 94 here mm-hmm still looks very very decent and gensire with more than enough time 16 minutes I mean she's got yeah I think she's gonna play 94 I think definitely and then black's king is in trouble on e8 the rook on g5 is still out of the game it might as well be just very bad for black could be I think you have to take and now rook e4 and now you have to create some lift for the king so you have to move the bishop right let's say bishop to c5 but I can at least take a point yeah you can win a pull bishop e5 and bishop e4 bishop e4 now bishop d4 I expect this basically I basically I guess yeah and Bobby just has yeah rook g6 and just pray that rook d4 is not working yeah probably isn't working probably not yet yeah but I could just play rook f1 just protect the pawn yeah and then figure a way to perhaps I will just play h4 and g5 yeah yeah I don't like black pieces at all no I think gensire's got a great chance here to uh to do some nasty stuff right so I'm I'm quite happy about about how the girls team chances look absolutely the chances look great let's go to another game and I have to say uh oh I have to say that uh I'm looking at uh whose game is that oh it's uh Nino's game and uh again Nino is just I don't know what's going on but it feels like she's just not being able to really push her I mean this position might actually be okay for Nino how did that knight get to e4 I don't have a question for you it was uh I have no idea oh wow but this looks terrible for white because the bishop on c3 is basically a pawn exactly it might actually be if g4 is not gonna appear on the board soon and then f5 this will be just lost for white this is the only counter chance white could be seeking g4 and f5 and how how can black stop that something like queen of seven I think well sorry what is the threat here I didn't understand g4 and f5 really yeah okay if I go rook ae8 g4 okay rook e6 queen h5 I don't have an option really really you could okay you could go actually for g6 it's quite a funny line but g6 wow no my point was that after queen h6 you've got g5 but actually you could just take on g6 I believe but is this so clear yeah yeah it's you think this is clear then my queen f7 ah your queen is protected yeah I've missed that too oh yeah yeah no that's that's an important queen g6 wow just but perhaps you could be taking on somewhere in the center on c5 or on c3 on c5 perhaps okay and now after g4 maybe wow I'm just not in time with anything perhaps you could just take now on c3 after rook c3 take on d4 but now you switch across yeah and the question is is it really that dangerous because if it is then take everything but I've got I've got e6 I or do I probably but you have queen e8 maybe what mad position zero idea he played queen e8 immediately this is I believe a very good move exactly because of this attacking chances why it could have after g4 no this is a really good move yeah because in the end game it's not so effective there are no mates being threatened and then black hands are taking on c5 and so on I actually am a bit worried for Nino here yeah I think she is in quite big trouble right now she doesn't have a way to avoid the queen trade right so she she's got a she's got to take it yeah yeah yeah she has to she has to take it doesn't she yeah I think she has to take it I don't see another move do you no okay so we take and now rook takes and these nights are just unbelievable this is just bad this is simply bad you cannot make a case for anything other than that oh yeah yeah yeah Nino in trouble today again but let's check another game okay let's go to Marisa back against being a Brunello because that has really changed in nature yeah let's so let's check how how that one is looking isn't black just a pawn up uh isn't black just a pawn up yes we might not be doing so great at mathematics but I could count definitely a few pawns so yeah I think that has gone horribly wrong for Marie I'm afraid yeah something has gone wrong here because the attack is no longer the initiative is no longer and she's just played what did she play g4 okay that's a pretty decent move I guess so what might be hoping because of that nice knight on d3 which is blocking um black's past pawn that maybe things are all right or at least try to make them look all right after all white has the pair of bishop so white will want probably to open up the age file then try to do something over there but after all I think black has just a healthy extra pawn yeah he still has a few issues to to resolve this pin is a bit annoying and it's it's still a it's still a bit annoying uh yeah that pin on the light square season I think he might try a move like f6 or f5 here really yeah I would be a bit scared to to take such a decision what if I then just take on f6 what are you want to capture with the pawn I believe right yeah probably with the pawn but then I don't know some rookie one then a five yeah it's not it's not it's it's not ideal I can work it out to my advantage yeah because it's it's very risky it's very risky but I maybe maybe bishop d8 then or something to get the knight to e7 but why aren't you trying to he played rook c7 yeah I was going to say why not try to play rook b8 and b5 actually or rook c7 knight a5 just trying to win this pawn actually that's that's a great move I believe yeah why not why not try win the point definitely and what about bishop takes c6 can't I just ah then you take with the rook and after bishop d4 you've got rook c4 all right yeah that's good yeah so I believe Sabino will definitely have a good chance today to convert his advantage of an extra pawn so this is actually the second game where we see that the latest team is in trouble so two for the women two for for the guys let's move on to to the next one yeah and I wanted to check out the game between Gunay Mamatad and Balash Chonka because this is also a critical game and it looks as though Balash has done extraordinarily well I'm not saying he's lots better but I would take black all day here because I've got if the if Gary Kasparov had the octopus on d3 then I've got the kraken on e5 I mean look at this have you seen a better bishop in all your life no is the answer that queen e7 and this bishop is is is much stronger than a rook oh my look look at the good eyes clock she's got 38 under one minute and to remember yesterday she handled not so great that situation on the clock yeah this is a really awful position for white because you try and take the a file you can swing the queen out here you've got all of these ideas no but you can't allow black taking the a file you should play rook a six I believe immediately and then queen h4 and then just trying to survive this queen of queen f2 yeah problem but this is a sad position because even after queen f2 you might actually think of trading queens no and then bishop c3 oh yeah rook b1 maybe not immediately maybe maybe not immediately but still it's it's gonna be tough she played what did she play bishop off that bishop b1 is is not is not now you just go rook a7 or no you go rook a8 because you you go rook a8 here this is the professional move and now the rook can come to a3 then to g3 this is just over this is just losing terrible yeah this this just has to be losing for gunai she's struggling a lot in this tournament and actually she's such a talented and right and active player I'm having a hard time figuring out what is going wrong could be a number of things and confidence is normally just number one meanwhile Joe Gallagher let's go to him oh my goodness we've got a lot of stuff because the the Marcel game is completely off the charts but quickly Joe Gallagher let's go there oh something happened oh yeah so we saw knight c1 h5 oh Joe played h5 oh so it was actually how we predicted exactly three all right all right all right oh this is gorgeous look at this so she was banking on bishop f1 but knight a5 is a shot she completely missed look at this protecting the rook and if you take I can just take and if you go queen c5 I guess you can just go like queen takes e4 or knight d2 I don't know which one actually yeah maybe just queen takes e4 threatening the rook and then i d2 knight a3 it's gonna be well or how about just rerouting the bishop no it looks terrible but why why couldn't she just protect the pawn admit that it was a mistake and play something like bishop g2 or bishop d3 bishop d3 doesn't work because of rook c3 so bishop g2 only option yeah why didn't she do that not sure because now the position is all right now the knight will be coming to c4 so perhaps the rook can just rook anywhere and but now I can play bishop but bishop f1 is a sad move to play again yeah but you just try and hold on but yeah I I mean but the move she played bishop b4 after seven minutes rook takes e4 what's her idea maybe she wanted to try something like but after queen f3 black has bishop c6 queen takes f7 is this what she wants to try must be but then even rookie one might be an issue that's a nasty move that is a killer because bishop g2 is a threat definitely that's a nasty nasty move yeah it looks like iron might actually be in trouble and yeah she still has eight minutes on the clock but they might not not be helpful actually so wow what a turnaround again let's hope that the other games are going better let's check one more game hmm should we should we jump to the uh pia versus Eric one sure because Eric was doing very very good he had this extra pawn and it seems that it's still the case things haven't changed Eric is still yeah Eric is just absolutely winning I mean she's managed to establish some kind of a blockade but it's it looks good but I'm also looking I mean so I mean Eric should probably still win this because there's enough weaknesses but it's gonna take time but hold on a second here uh Yavanka her king is on f3 randomly that's a very a bit of a strange placement right right but she can just play king g2 even if she she can but uh I think that Leandro is feeling quite confident now he wants to go for a knight f4 right he what maybe he wants to go for knight you have to calculate some stuff but I mean that if you just look here I mean he's not doing badly that's for sure and they are again quite slow on time but white should be quite solid in this game I just really hope that Yavanka will be able to to keep cool you know not get too emotional in this time trouble and manage to just find six solid moves get the time and then think think what to do next yeah agreed agreed agreed agreed so we'll see if Yavanka manages to go there now let's go back to Nina and wow actually she's got an exchange yeah and Bilal just decided to give the exchange but it's probably I'm not sure it's it's winning for black actually rook takes a four e6 okay but no threat right I want to play e7 and I put the king there maybe I could even throw in rook uh but after rook f1 you could play g5 right right exactly yeah that's that's a slight problem now it definitely still looks very good for black but perhaps it wasn't necessary to sacrifice material right could be yeah and Nino did play e6 but yeah as I say there's no no actual threat here again um Yavanka yeah uh things have uh might have actually changed again in this in this game yeah let's have uh let's have a look all right uh Irene is still thinking against Joe let's check Marcel again against Ravi okay because oh my goodness this looks toast for Ravi I mean but he has set a little trap being that after rook takes d7 knight d7 queen d7 he probably has queen b1 yeah hitting two pieces definitely but it's still it's still not over is it probably still not over for example you can take check rook f7 and queen e6 um actually um you've got queen d1 shame that doesn't work nearly does yeah but yeah queen e6 also queen d1 and no moves so okay a little bit of posturing here but Marcel with five minutes loads of time yeah she she should be careful only about this idea with queen b1 that's the only thing she she has to keep an eye on what about a move a pragmatic move like but then after rook b7 again there's queen b1 right yeah he's he's he's angling for queen b1 here does she have a way to stop it other than playing bishop to c2 because actually bishop to c2 might be a valid move but then you yeah why not looks fine looks absolutely fine bishop to c2 right this is a good move no i expect Marcel to win this position actually well i definitely hope so because it looks like that win is gonna be could be critical very much needed by by the women's team all right uh let's have a look at the maria versus julian game was it uh no that one is still pretty much i would say over i mean it's a matter of technique and maria's got plenty and yeah they're not even in time trouble i mean maria can do anything rook g6 here is fine any move yeah so we expect maria to win this one yeah absolutely we expect that now has shansaya managed to get a winning position they're at move 42 so they've got the extra 30 minutes black's king oh wait there is just this rook f8 working but maybe he he can take on g5 rook f7 king g8 bishop e it's not what i wanted to get it still looks not so great but let's let's get back after king h7 perhaps i have something i should somehow play just c5 yeah definitely the the pawn is queening or you have to give your bishop i will have to give the bishop c6 i guess yeah and the the bad point here is it looks it looks bad for bobby it looks bad i mean well he will still get some chances if he manages to make those pawns on the king side running but that's not going to be easy yeah i believe that i believe that shansay has got great chances there definitely let's go back to yavanka and she's managed to consolidate ever so slightly and i think they both get to the time control there and we've got a quite the battle uh nino against billill is move 36 and yeah probably black is still doing great here right i would if i had to guess i would say yes that probably black is i mean once this pawn disappears the problem is there is no real counterplay as white here you don't have any squares to bring your rooks somewhere in in that back ranks black scout so yeah double is going to be a tough one to defend for nina rook f1 by nina what else and now billill with three minutes that's a good move because if she manages to trade the rooks and she's gonna manage that and perhaps she could hope i'm not sure because for example you can take take c5 no but here you're not going to win this one probably d takes okay and even bishop takes c5 might be a move i could consider and rook d5 oh wait i cannot take the pawns oh but if i could take it then it won't be it wouldn't be easy for black to write but you can't there's always this thing here i saw about bishop c3 worst case scenario i take and take on e7 and this is probably very good for black although it's it's not easy this position but but you still have got a lot of pawns right a lot of pawns but that's the worst case and if i don't do that um if i just play for example d4 d4 is just crushing now again i want to find a way to sacrifice the bishop for the pawns bishop takes but i might be losing my rook again oh no yeah sorry do you lose your rook i'm not sure maybe there are some smart chucks but but if you go just 96 i might have a four yeah this is maybe i still have a slight slight hope but you're probably in time with your king to d7 no because you know the idea is that if i sacrifice the rook and the pawn for the three pawns then two knights don't win against a bear king two knights and king versus king is a draw what what happened what happened uh good question so king of seven rook f1 rook f1 the rook is on d3 he played h5 h5 yeah that's a valid h5 a4 i think this is yeah the problem is that i cannot really take on f6 as you will take back with the pawn and then you will have too many passers i think this has been good for for nino actually getting this move in is is pretty decent yeah but there is no actual way to make any progress with white no yeah that's that's gonna be tough to hold i believe another position that looks impossible to hold is gunai against balash he did exchange queens but he did it under favorable circumstances because rook takes f2 runs into bishop d4 uh with the pin and king takes f2 now you can just play rook a4 and there's no way to save this pawn and this this is just over ladies and gentlemen this is just resigning here is not premature because black will just have two protected pass pawns there is no back rank checkmate this diagonal is nicely blocked because of the kraken here on e5 and gunai is on root to losing another game oh and we have actually another result maria just just won against jillian and uh yeah it means that for now the ladies are leading with plus two but actually the man's team can score in quite a few games yeah i see the men scoring firstly balash super concentrated and position yeah i mean it's just hopeless position really for for gunai uh balash will i mean she will fight but she cannot she cannot possibly she cannot hold no she cannot yeah she she can't hold this position she there are no even minimal shots of a of a of a swindle here so that that's just impossible she's she's not drawing uh eric rosen has still got a a classically great position against pier they've reached move 40 joe gallagher has got uh what what happened here oh wait what joe gallagher that's that might not be winning anymore at least wait i can take on e4 right you take bishop takes e4 root b2 yeah even if i'm okay if i'm worried i might even take on a five and it might be still a draw right but i could even play root b2 root b2 and what what does he do what does he want to do here knight cc bishop h6 maybe i was yeah no you just take yeah and take everything knight c6 you're probably for joe has spoiled his position here definitely wow this game has had quite a few turnarounds yeah i guess after root b2 he's just gonna take on c4 and play this position and he shouldn't lose this position actually because the black pieces are so good here no definitely but it will still be white who's gonna play here for for something and knowing the position for from a few moves ago it looked like black was actually very close to winning yeah perhaps he just blundered something and that might be a very important save uh by the by the women's team yeah could be huge let's go back to a froymski against harrier and they have reached move 40 with ravi to move oh and she did play bishop to c2 and after queen if rug takes d7 yeah now the eye no this is good this is good because after b3 she will take right 97 queen d7 b3 oh will she wait i don't know or will she just play bishop d3 she could she's got queen f5 as well queen f5 we take c2 oof oops yeah yep queen f5 doesn't work so which which move did you say here bishop d3 maybe bishop d3 but uh no bishop d3 is just bad because of oh no after b2 now queen f5 yeah this is winning this should be winning and it's not so clear bishop queen takes f5 bishop takes f5 rook d8 yeah and i can take yeah no this is this is still again yeah and ravi has made the time control so he did take and actually this is this is not completely clear marie drew against sabino by the way there was a draw here that that's a great result for the lady steam because marie was just upon down and it looked terrible actually so great save here by marie oof and nino was forced to take on f6 and now these pawns are rolling and i think nino is in huge trouble here um even if objectively it might be okay i think this is a really really tough position you know the only idea what could hope for is exactly that one of sacrificing all the pieces and managing to get to an end game of king and two knights versus king because that's a draw that's literally the only idea what could play for in this position i believe yeah looks tough and this one looks like it's actually okay for yovanka as well suddenly 90 oh yeah this this looks definitely good i believe black might even have to to settle for a perpetual um white even yeah i could even consider yeah yeah looks as though yovanka is is doing okay this is also great news i'm really happy to see yovanka you know managing to um somehow surpass all those blunders in the time trouble and i'm very happy to see her having a good position today indeed zhansaya also doing exactly what you said irina just running her pawn up the board pass pawns must be pushed and i think this position is just winning which is wonderful for zhansaya but white has to be has to be careful i think i think it that it's definitely winning but um you can't delay too much winning the a pawn and then pushing the b pawn towards queening yeah but that but she's gonna do that she loves pushing pawns right so bishop takes c6 what else so bobby the only player in the men's team are actually he's not the only one i was gonna say that he's the only player who hasn't lost a game in the men's team but actually there is also balash right they are both on uh on a good score yes and he might be he might be losing this one right yeah it looks bad it looks oh yeah it's just game over here because the bishop is coming to to c2 probably and then the pawn is running it look it does look bad all right well look it looks as though every game has now reached move 40 meaning they're gonna get additional time uh we're gonna take a very small break uh we might be joined by a guest uh in the meantime the state of play is as follows the the girls are up two points no wins for the guys yet they are pretty much certain of uh balash chonka and i would say eric has got a great chance as well with winning positions bilal as well looks interesting but it's gonna be tight guys so don't miss the action don't miss the drama we'll be back in a few minutes with uh yeah the remainder of this round see you then we are back at the battle of the sexes the seventh round and we are joined by grandmaster olga gearia olga congratulations for your win today thank you uh let's have a look at your game uh it seemed really interesting here after c4 is six knight of three please stop me when you think that it is a critical moment knight of six knight c3 bishop e7 bishop f4 castle e3 knight bd7 a3 d takes bishop takes it all looked uh looked good right uh yes but this knight b6 move it's something new for me this idea i didn't see uh right because the knight stays a bit strange there right normally black goes for something like c5 and yes but maybe that's not so bad it looks so nice so bishop d3 knight b2 d5 and here bishop to e5 yes i like this move i think bishop on e5 is much better than on g3 definitely definitely yes and he continued here with knight takes c3 b takes c3 and c5 short castle and b6 do you think uh do you think this is all right or yes i think that's okay he made the mistake after nine g5 h6 queen three i think he he could play bishop d7 that's actually what we were discussing as well and we were not sure how you were going to continue here i wanted to take on f6 to play knight h7 and okay i will take this bishop queen takes and then i don't know maybe i thought about queen e4 forcing black to somehow go for g6 probably i think maybe i have just little plus there maybe definitely because you've got the better center right yes i want to play maybe a4 a5 some there a4 bishop b5 but of course he he should play this bishop d7 much better than what was played in the game because after bishop b7 it looked like white is just having a decisive advantage right yes i think so and queen takes h takes g5 you know actually in this position we were considering the move queen to f3 yes i thought about that i spent maybe 30 minutes just trying to to decide which one is better to play but i think actually f4 is also the suggestion of the computer in this position so uh yeah f4 looked like a great move it looks aggressive so i like that right and here he played g6 and after f takes g5 we were a bit puzzled we were not sure where that knight should go because actually almost all the moves are possible right yes but okay if knight d7 there is also bishop c7 and then bishop e4 after queen c8 yes bishop e4 and if he takes rook e8 just h4 maybe yes there is also bishop c6 bishop c6 because rook c8 no bishop c6 bishop g5 sorry all right right bishop d7 rook e7 yeah so just h4 probably is uh very good for white yeah okay after knight d5 there is rook a3 i think uh just let me a moment to get here rook a3 here yes rook a3 what about bishop g5 there is bishop g6 uh-huh a very nice one yeah now the point is that after f takes there is mate coming on g7 yeah it looks like white is doing great here so yes i thought knight g4 is the only move there is this nice move bishop c7 and after queen d7 i was a luck because i played queen e4 it was my idea but then i played this move i thought maybe there was move rook f7 immediately instead of queen e4 oh that's so interesting yes and after the game i asked my coach what about rook f7 and computer says there is a fantastic only move for black okay if king f7 my idea is to play queen e4 right and you are threatening mate on g6 and also the knight is hanging yes rook g8 rook f1 the king should go to e8 no the rook is hanging so knight f6 and i can just take maybe or bishop e5 so that's winning okay and there was only one move for black it's something fantastic after rook f7 uh there was bishop g5 move oh wow incredible and is it working like after rook takes d7 there is bishop f3 check i think there is just knight f2 knight d3 and it's a perpetual here oh wow so good that you didn't get tempted by rook f7 then yes because of course i i couldn't see this bishop g5 move yes it's a very easy one to miss right yes so i just played queen e4 quickly and i was lucky oh nice one yes because after knight e3 i thought to play rook f7 mm-hmm so here 93 right yes 93 rook f7 mm-hmm and now the point is that the king cannot take anymore because of the mate that's easier mm-hmm right and otherwise the rook on a8 is still hanging all right so here he was yes and after this bishop g5 i calculated this line which one was in the game all right so queen takes g4 bishop e3 king h1 all forced and here just bishop takes g6 a really nice one so you are basically collecting all the pawns and the bishop as well uh yeah it seems like it was a very smooth win for you actually did he have any chances afterwards you know it's uh first it looked like absolutely winning but then because his king is so open right yes but then okay here i took rook c1 maybe rook d8 was moved rook d8 would move yes i thought h3 but i'm not sure if he maybe he can just rook d4 play rook d4 what about rook c8 is yes rook c8 rook d8 so you are not sure that the queen end game what about this one is it ah queen end game is yes it's winning yeah might be right mm-hmm you could just take or give a check and yeah but perhaps this was a better try for black yes and what happened in the game mm-hmm i think uh the last mistake was then he played uh i'm not sure i can change my queens maybe yes maybe no yeah it's safer to keep that right and yes i think rook d8 is the last mistake because after queen d3 i didn't see any good option for for him yeah the queen is just coming to g6 and yes and f1 is protected yeah definitely so congratulations on on a great game thank you uh how does it feel to be to be here to be at this tournament uh how do you get along with your teammates what is the atmosphere the atmosphere is great uh and uh okay i like all all all all of your teammates right all of my teammates and uh the weather is nice now the sun is shining so i'm just happy to play there oh i'm very i'm very happy to see that uh you are um in such great mood and uh you know actually the ladies are doing quite fine today i see that there are there's one more win so maria already won against julian and i wish you the best of luck in today's match and in the remaining matches and yeah hope to see you here again commenting on on a nice win thank you all right so we'll take a little break and then we'll be back to the games to see all the action be right back pretty welcome back this is the battle of the sexes tournament in gibraltar welcome to well the uh post move 40 time of round seven i think this is the day where we've had most games still going on actually after move 40 and they are all very very exciting yeah they are a quick update we've had three results so far only you can see them on the screen olga guia who was just here in the studio explaining to uh irina her very i would say comprehensive and uh you know quite smooth smooth win today absolutely yeah beating hussein aziz marisa bag saved what looked like a slightly worse position against sabina brunello and maria musichuk had zero problems converting against julian bualia meaning on paper the women are up two points but that is not the end of the story because they've got some problems on some of the other boards for example if we go to the very quickly the gunai mamadzada against balash chonka game uh we're going to go through this position is totally dead for gunai who uh she can't she she can't do anything she's just nothing to do here because uh you're attacking the bishop you're a pawn up as black you've got also rook b2 is coming and then the point from b4 will be falling right well not only that i think his idea is actually that if the bishop moves rook a to rook seven to a three check is coming and actually there's going to be a very pretty mate yeah i mean you can rook a tree oh sorry rook a tree is just made yeah yeah no this is this is toast uh gunai can resign now it's okay it's not so that is going to be over another game that looks very bad is the game of uh pier cramlings against eric rose and she's been suffering uh pretty much all game pier uh something went wrong in the but suddenly it might be not not that easy or is it still i think it's because somehow now if we trade queens and eric actually can't avoid it yes he just took on b2 now knight b2 will follow and then the knight wants to go to a4 uh yeah but then the pawns on f4 and f2 are quite weak so the king cannot really run towards that a pawn yeah i believe uh i believe black is winning you have to be a little bit careful of course but you know for example he removed like bishop to c5 just keeping an eye on this pawn and if you play knight c4 then i can start uh dominating the knight and you never really want to fix the structure because suddenly all the pawns are on dark squares and actually i might want to fix it with black right play f5 and force whites to do something absolutely if you do nothing here remove like f5 certainly comes to mind um you can you can play that you don't even have to you could play also king f6 or e5 or yeah anything i mean the knights are are traditionally very bad defenders of outside pass pawns because they're distracted with all the weaknesses here you just need to find a way a breakthrough so you stretch white from both sides and eventually you just run out of ideas and i believe that eric is going to win he's probably not done it in the smoothest way but it just doesn't matter because this ending is you're a pawn you're a pawn down and you've got the worst pieces so i i see just no hope for pier here really uh what so that's two games that are going in the men's favor and that would mean that the score might be even yes and then what about the game of uh john sire against bobby let's check that one out because oh black mage quite some progress here look at that pawns yeah suddenly things got completely unclear so bobby probably played really well over the past few moves to get this because now um i am totally unsure on for example okay so the situation is you've got two pawns against four and the bishop said why on paper should still be doing well but just to make it you know if you go e4 here as black trying to bring the king in perhaps or i don't know just trying to uh yeah just trying to advance these pawns after b4 i wonder if i can now go e3 definitely because king c3 runs into very nice variation so king c3 e2 ah king c3 yeah the point is that after rookie three you've got rook h3 winning suddenly yeah just winning because of the pin and actually actually he has just played e4 yeah what else are you gonna do here you gotta play e4 and now after king c3 i wonder again if you can just go king e5 because if you take on g5 i take on h3 check and this is just not easy at all like i can already start pestering you like this actually this is just a straight up draw no have i found one of those weird draws yeah but the king has to go to c3 i believe because an a2 you are actually taking quite quite serious reasons there okay but if i keep on checking you just draw it's just a draw yeah in fact even here i wouldn't be that confident with white even if you went here right because i don't know king king d4 i things can go wrong as white here the f pawn starts running i don't know i i okay i believe that white can bail out of it with just sacrificing the bishop at some point for two pawns but the point is that white is not winning anymore so that extra piece doesn't really make things great for white not and exactly when we thought that actually the end game was winning right i thought it was but bobby just played very very stubbornly and maybe jansire got a little over confident or something because you had the position now is just i mean i can't describe what it is except unclear uh i would say that black's chances of losing now though are heavily heavily heavily uh less than they were uh 10 moves ago definitely let's go to leandro's game against yuvanka now is yuvanka gonna pull something out the bag um so she's got a pawn up right but it's doubled right the king is on h3 and the pawn on b2 is hanging b2 is hanging there are some queen of fives in the air as well wait what if i take on f7 and then king takes f7 one second do you play i might play queen f5 check first the reason is that if you go queen g4 i take take and take and now i'm ready to get rolling and that could actually be quite dangerous now but you are not you're not in time now king f4 yeah i'm not in time or no you're i believe you're not and in the meantime you're going to create your own passport yeah but this should be a draw no still a draw i mean probably but i don't know i probably still take black because i've got the outside passport opportunity but that's just at least one idea definitely you don't have to go queen f5 check you can just take but here i've got queen b7 and i'm taking b6 but it's just i don't know it's not a draw because after queen f5 i've got king g3 so here white will definitely try to win with two pawns up so perhaps you have to try queen f1 um queen f1 oh but then queen g2 might be no you play queen b6 sorry oh wait right king g3 now and queen g1 king f3 yeah it seems like white is still trying here right perhaps there is queen d1 and black is still fine but yeah might be the might be a might be a perpetual because actually you can just continue checking right yeah no you this this yeah this is just a draw but oh and gunai actually actually lost yeah that actually means balash chonka is well on for his grandmaster norm here yeah he moved to plus three now plus three so i think if he's on plus three after seven rounds that means he's on uh five out of seven so he might actually only need a point and a half in the next two games to get a nine round grandmaster norm right so very impressive performance by uh by the hungarian international master and uh let's move on let's move on to another game so we believe that most likely it will be a draw between yovanka and lander right yeah i think i think a draw is a favorite there this is the game between nina batts yeshvili and bilal and rook f4 move 42 on the board what an insanely difficult position to to assess um yeah it's interesting now because the first move which comes to mind for black is c5 i guess right then white probably takes on c5 we take c5 and now some moves like like which well i think her idea is rook takes e4 interestingly and the point is that i'm threatening queen so yeah you have to take i don't know which way and then bishop takes c5 and i've got this guy you have to deal with as well but even this position after knight c4 i i'm not sure what about bishop before here yeah but i'm gonna take right like in the worst case if you ever see you might not be able to win that if you take a five okay yeah this this i'm probably this should probably be a draw yeah this this i'm probably not winning i can play bishop wait how do i attack those pawns to be the most effective but i do agree that it doesn't feel like bishop c7 probably is the best and bishop f4 now then i will play bishop g5 no you can probably just take bishop h4 f2 king g2 yeah yeah it looks good enough oh yeah so that's the idea she's got after c5 yeah and he didn't do it precisely because of that i think he went h3 which i like and it's still a really difficult position for nino because what are you supposed to do here what question because the moment you play a5 yeah if you go a5 i take and then the pawn on e7 is falling so so but wait now now the rook on f4 is kind of trapped right yes that rook on f4 is could try some strange move like now but rook f2 cannot really work because you'll just take it rook f2 i take king takes and now some smart knight move knight c2 for example bishop c3 yeah now you lose on e7 and and yeah it's the end of the game this is game over i fully expect billel to win after h3 actually and the nightmare for nino continues uh what if i don't don't do anything and just wait something like king h1 it looks very badly but what is your winning plan here you should try to get that e7 pawn yeah but i can't move my knight from e3 and the king cannot also can't move too far maybe you could bring it to e8 but it should be around the pawn from e7 but maybe i can do something similar to the variation we did before so i go c5 let's say you take take and take let's say okay now let's say i take with the f pawn bishop takes c5 okay and now knight c4 again probably knight c4 let's try knight c4 but knight c2 is also very interesting actually knight c2 yeah knight c1 i oh but wait you can you can go can i get the pawn well it gets very complicated if you go a5 i go d4 no you win a6 d3 a7 d2 and you make a queen all right yeah and you cannot really do that queen would check yeah no i probably do have to go knight c4 but then i come with the king king g1 exactly and um but still you could play e3 perhaps king f1 i'm afraid of g3 oh lovely lovely i might be still fine it might be okay but the idea is there i have to keep g3 maybe i'm actually losing because after h takes there's e2 yes yes now h2 is coming and h2 beautiful beautiful yeah so it looks like even the best case scenario for white still looks bad yeah it's just over isn't it yeah oh poor nino i my oh we've all been there where we've had a catastrophic tournament and yeah it's tough to see such nice nice players strong players like nino like good nice struggling and yeah i guess the pressure is now on their teammates i hope they will be able to make up some points because as we said today is a critical game a critical round actually we have a lot of critical games because if the girls are not gonna make up for yesterday's loss then it might be very difficult to make up at all absolutely quickly in the game sucanda against galaga we have this uh extremely we've got another result it looks like a draw yeah looks like a draw they're discussing their game actually yeah no but no kings are in the middle of the board yet so we need to get confirmation but but it definitely looks like it because the king is on c1 perhaps it was oh now we'll see yeah it's a draw it's a draw good save for bobby chang he was in big trouble right and a missed opportunity for shansaya for sure another important result for the boys and so looking at iran's yeah iran's game against joe galaga iran's an exchange up but just got the pair of bishops and a point for the exchange it should be enough to to make a draw right yeah i might even slightly prefer black here really well i just don't see what i'm doing with white i see zero ideas no i mean you can you cannot prefer black but i mean i i just don't think i know that i know that joe's your friend but still i just don't think that black is worse i don't yeah well the struggle for white is to trade a few a few pieces but that's not that easy to achieve she played f3 f3 seems like a good move because now the king will go to f2 then the knight will slowly come 92 knight c3 knight somewhere else and you should be careful about moving your pawns so moves like f5 should be done um as last resort i believe all right so okay let's go to another game yeah probably it's gonna be a draw this one well probably but who knows there's still life but i'm interested in the ravi harrier game now what happened here because marcell's position she she was just in total control and now can it be that ravi is better no i think we are just winning the plan on b2 now oh rook before check no not immediately uh bishop d3 let's say no no no no why not g5 i want to get my after pawn yeah i have to take on b2 okay but now i go g4 where to place my knight oh now both pawns are falling knight h4 no wait there's knight h4 i'm all right you're all right yeah rook i've taken c3 sure one a bit you're calling for g5 yeah not not easy i will still have g3 then yeah but then i'm gonna do you think this is so bad okay no bishop before you're just gonna play b6 no i don't like this one let's go back you're right here i think this now after rook sorry rook f4 looks critical it looks terrible for white you might actually be right here even though i would you know when looking at the position i would first think that white is doing great because you will get eventually the b2 pawn but apparently you cannot hold to the pawns on the king side and that's a huge problem massive problem wow yeah this is uh this is an unpleasant position i don't know yeah yeah this is gonna be uh this is gonna be actually this could be a very long game but this is once again we get to this moment when marcel was better for a big part of the game she probably had even quite big winning chances somewhere around the time trouble yeah but then ravi found this very nice idea okay he was forced to uh to to do it otherwise he would just be lost i guess and now suddenly the rook proves to be better than the knight and the bishop and that's actually a very unusual situation i believe yeah in some positions it can be can be better uh let's see veric rosen has found made progress and he has he's he's done exactly what we said which was to create a path for the king to start exploiting some of these weaknesses and i love i love his position he's just he's just winning basically yeah and pia also very low in time yeah it's just uh it's a tough spot for her because she lost yesterday and today she's also in big trouble i believe she might need some some energy boost yeah she needs to do something doesn't she because she's she's she's uh she's really up against the uh the uh what's the word we are saying in russian that against the windmills but i'm not sure it's an expression in uh in english as well no against the current maybe or against she's swimming upstream or something like that i don't know i don't know how to speak english anyway bishop g1 on the board and yeah this is actually okay she tries e5 check but king f5 well of course or king g6 both are good but king f5 will be played by eric it's just it's not even it's not even a debate it's yeah it's just it's just gone isn't it fxg5 king takes e5 is also good just coming this way it's just nothing it's impossible to hold this one yeah nothing to really analyze here uh nino's game actually took a slight turn in terms of uh we didn't get these the positions we were looking at this is the position on the board hmm and bill can't afford i think losing the f5 bond can he he will probably protect it by playing a move like knight d6 right well knight d6 is clever because now you're threatening to take because the square is guarded but after rook f2 i don't know what his idea is i even have knight e1 now the knight might might be coming to f3 to d3 yeah both of these knights could be on f3 and in e4 and then suddenly the pawns run this is uh this is brutal yeah this is just this is just so brutal for nino who you know she just she just can't catch a break she's just she's just getting insanely unlucky yeah and it's actually the second game when i remember that bill l has sacrificed an exchange for right for compensation and yeah he handles these moments and he does play a great confidence he plays your move knight to e1 yeah but he did he do it immediately without guarding the f5 pawn maybe he did so the knight the knight is still on e4 yeah he went knight to e1 immediately oh this is very cute look at this if rook takes a five knight f3 check if you go king h1 that's a beautiful checkmate yeah definitely and if you come this way now h2 at the very least but you might even have something well actually hold on there's this careful so i mean oh no that's not that you can take on e7 sorry right i could even start with king takes e7 it's just game over g3 is a threat knight h2 is a threat there is no way you can hold it yeah yeah nino nino poor nino just not quite there Marcel Fromski is also on the verge now in my opinion of no but wait it is quite good that she did not lose those pawns on the king side but now the problem is that black will have past pawns running on both flanks yeah rookie six is just over though firstly well i mean the rook's the rook's coming i guess i think she wants to try to find the repetition or something with knight d4 because after rook b6 you go back ah was it i think it was no there is no repetition no but it was knight d4 rook b6 knight b3 rook e6 yeah but he won a pawn ah but he won a pawn on the way right yeah oh and actually we have another result yeah eric has just won his game against bia great result for eric i had to say uh before the round i wasn't optimistic about eric would black against pier but pierre just uh just a bit dazed and confused at the moment as the song goes she's just not uh not seeing things missing little things and today's game was actually rather rather horrible to see because she just lost the plot completely at some point so eric massive win for the boys uh that's their second wing because chonka and and has already converted and i expect ravi to win this actually i would say uh this position i want the ladies in trouble again suddenly yeah because like just to give you an example let's say i go rookie one i think king takes b2 i go rook f1 i must play a three i go rook f2 check oh oh my pawns yeah and now i've just got i will go king c3 maybe better yeah okay i take and b should be four but yeah i i agree it's probably already lost against one yeah this is just over now ravi harry is going to win this game and he's come back from the dead in this one because he was totally lost you know even if we imagine that i managed to sacrifice the night for two ponds and then trade the f pawn for the g1 still you know the end game i'm talking rook and marginal pawn versus bishop it's still lost because it's of the wrong color so in order for it to be drawn you need a bishop a dark squared bishop to be placed on g1 king on h1 and then you can hope for a draw but even this idea is not possible here and that means that white is busted yeah white white is just completely busted here so if that and with billill hold on it could mean that the boys are winning four games in a row and actually you know what that means leandro he's not losing this position that's going to be a draw and joe i don't expect to lose here it could be a plus two day for the boy actually i think that's no win plus two for the girls yeah oh no yeah i got it the wrong way around yeah but that's actually quite serious because suddenly yeah for now for now the men's team is leading with plus two before today's round and if they managed to win again with plus two then it will mean that they lead by four points and today they actually had all blacks so yeah that's huge that would be yeah a great result for for them and a very tough moment in the match for for the women's team the only game that really is not defined at all in my opinion is this sucunda versus joe gallagher game where weren't you saying black was better here i mean i maybe black isn't better but certainly it's but such a miss by marcel yeah yeah and she had she had time it wasn't like she didn't it was tricky i mean it wasn't this idea was very unusual of sacrificing the two pieces for the rook and getting to the end game because you would think that getting into an end game with two pieces versus the rook is a favorable scenario but it turned exactly the other way does yeah david baker in the chess is what does eric need for promotion to ground master um eric needs to get three grandmaster norms and he needs to get his rating to 2500 so quite a tall order because he's only rated 2365 ish at the moment in order to get a grandmaster norm in this tournament uh he's probably on two and a half i would expect a plus four score to be yeah to be heated plus four or plus five he might he might need to win actually all of his games in order to get the norm because he's had a few losses so unlikely he gets it here but in general you need three grandmaster norms and um and the rating yeah so for now the score is even in the match uh in today's round i i mean but the point is that we don't see where the ladies are gonna win we don't see where where they have good chances today and actually it's the other way around it seems like out of all the remaining games only iran is not worse here uh also also yovanka was all right uh yovanka was doing fine today against leandra i believe right yeah i know i think yovanka is still doing fine and i i just don't want her to push too much here you know what i mean yeah but she i believe she's not risking that because even if she takes let's say on e6 here black might take on b2 then you still have a perpetual with queen of five check yeah it it should be fine probably she's gonna have to take to take the draw and yeah oh and nino nino has resigned yeah yeah nino has resigned and yovanka's taken on e6 and uh this is clearly an intention by her to to make a draw no no i don't think so but uh what what do you mean oh you think there's just no way but after queen b2 our could she try for something with d5 like queen a five check and then d5 exactly exactly oh maybe maybe suddenly white has uh i actually like white's chances because that point on d4 will start moving first right so let's try queen b2 queen a five check well queen e4 i don't know i wanted to protect the point on f2 okay yeah good idea so the king has to go somewhere h6 you might run into trouble after h5 okay let's try here so now d5 but here the problem is that queen a five might be a good what i can say you can go d6 oh wait wait your king is on h8 not on g8 okay let me put it let me put it on g8 yeah d5 and now queen a five because the point and game should be even lost for white yeah this is probably even losing so he but he took on yeah he took on b2 yeah yeah and this is well the idea is that white can always go for that perpetual with queen a five check queen a five i believe is anyhow a good move because after king h6 there is h5 and actually it's game over i believe yeah it's made on g6 it's a pretty one but of course the andro will not run into that one you've angered with six minutes i think as well is she risking anything after d5 i mean there's a little bit of risk because i mean this but you you can lose this position it's not it's not a position which is somehow black's king is closer to the pawn so black basically has an extra piece for holding off that the passer yeah i don't believe why it could try too hard for a win here yeah it's one passer and the king is still just so open i i don't see it happening i think leandro is just too strong and i don't i just don't see it marcel's still trying but the position is the position is is just over four pawns against one so you've actually played the move you suggested the queenie four check yeah i don't think it makes a huge difference yeah but you have to guard your hour maybe she wants to attract black into taking that pawn you know spending time and then running with the pawn because there might be no perpetual actually so let's say here i move d5 immediately let's try queen oh again yeah i have this move this is what i'm saying there's a little bit of risk here because now let's say after queen c4 even this i can't you could go for king f7 even or king f8 maybe king f7 because d6 check i yeah and after queenie six you've got oh wait queenie six is just queenie six check oops yeah blundered yeah king f7 then so you know that you can you can blunder here yeah i don't like so much this last queenie four move actually but probably there might be actually not much to play for at all with white let's go to joe gallagher's game uh while that one clarifies a bit an f5 by joe f5 that was actually a move which i thought black should be careful about well i think he i think he has been careful about it i think he's timed it in a way where he's played it in a good moment and now you know he's got very clear ideas 95 let's say 95 okay and if i go h4 h4 but wait aren't you just giving up a point g takes h4 four yeah then you take on h4 yeah i take on h4 king g2 king g2 and with one less pair of pawns on the board i'm okay but still king f5 let's say yeah it should it should be a draw i'm going e4 okay i can play something like rook a5 or something i don't know yeah but it should be two let's say don't i have something like no i don't have i was trying to make some tactics like knight f4 work but you're still doing fine you can go knight c3 but you got to be a little bit careful because you know sometimes i attack this but i mean you don't really have to be careful i just i just believe it is no i could play bishop c3 i mean did he play h4 you might have white is not risking yeah this is just okay you are risking only as long as you blunder something but you could say the same thing for black and actually i believe it's it's iran who's playing for a win here but actually there are two two little pawns remaining on the board um yeah all right well look at see what we're gonna do because we've still got a little way to go i think the yovanka game could go on for a while and the joe gallagher game as well the ravie harrier game i don't expect to go on for too long and also actually yovanka i think she's going for that repetition is she let's just have a quick look let's see if she's done with this game she might be done because yeah the queen isn't protecting the f2 square so just to just to put that border yeah so probably if white wanted to play one she should have tried queen f5 and d5 to guard that f2 pawn but otherwise it's just most likely gonna end in a draw like in two moves or yeah it should be a repetition i don't see a way for white to to try anything else yeah okay doki so what we're gonna do is we're gonna go for a very quick break and then we're gonna have another guest to go over his game and it's bilal who had an important win today against nino very complicated game so it'd be nice to hear from him we'll be back and then of course we'll take you through the remainder of the action for today's round so see you in just a few moments the seventh round of the battle of the sexes and we have a special guest here grandmaster belacent bilal from algeria right and today he won a really interesting game against nino batia shvili uh how did that one go could you could you tell us a bit about the opening uh yeah i prepared the she played this this night f3 on before in the tournament and usually i played b6 but i went for bishop taxi three we thought this was quite an unusual move i believe i haven't seen it at all yeah yeah it's there are not so much games but computer says it's okay so i try really that will be interesting to look at so um now you basically wanted to play against these two points right that's your idea i gave the bishop but i have a better pawn structure you played d6 and i was prepared here for queen c2 yeah she played one game like this oh really she already had this position in in her games all right and uh yeah here i was prepared for castle e4 e5 bishop d3 here 96 yeah 96 yes and you try to provoke white to play d5 and then go for these squares somehow similar to what happened in the game or was it not yeah but i wasn't ready for knight d2 so i didn't know how to continue and you played short castle probably good yeah normal move yeah e4 and now e5 also it looked it looked like i wanted to play c5 or so but instead of e5 instead of e5 yeah but maybe bishop d3 and i don't know how i will continue so yeah right because then after let's say knight c6 she can protect this pawn yeah knight b3 yeah yeah and it's not so not so easy but let's check how you played in the game here you continued with e5 instead now bishop to d3 rook e8 castle and knight bd7 we were thinking maybe knight c6 yeah maybe yeah i don't know so all right you you are happy about knight d7 i know uh no i was not happy after her i think she had the better position but maybe knight c6 but knight b3 and then how i continue yeah definitely knight b3 oh wait knight b3 and she can't you can't take on e4 doesn't work i think she can't sacrifice the pawn he takes d4 let's say and perhaps i'm missing something might be maybe just d5 yeah d5 and then knight has to go back yeah you don't want all these pieces to be on the last rank right i could take a pawn like this in the game but i didn't want to to do it because it looks dangerous for me with the two bishop right definitely all right so this is why you chose knight d7 now rook e1 you played knight f8 knight f1 b6 um knight g3 knight g6 and knight f5 yeah and here you played h6 maybe here i can take on g4 i don't know um you mean here right he takes he takes take on f5 take on e1 and tried i was not able to evaluate this position 97 or no maybe 98 knight f8 right and somehow white has a nice pair of bishops against a pair of knights but you've got an extra pawn on the queen side right yeah yeah i also because if she moves the d4 pawn then i will have all the square for my knight yeah definitely so after a move like d5 one knight is coming towards c5 maybe e5 also but she has to play maybe bishop f4 i don't know i was thinking about this position but yeah maybe white is better yeah at uh at least if not giving up those squares it looks like white is in good control right yeah okay so instead of that you played knight to e7 wait i went too far 97 here knight to e3 and now the knight suddenly arrived to c6 right yeah but i don't know if it was good um bishop b2 and here i can take the pawn yeah take on d4 e4 he takes he takes but maybe i'm losing and 94 d5 d5 and once again you cannot really go to the e file because the knight here is hanging and that's i guess the problem right maybe knight b4 knight b4 yeah bishop b1 i think bishop b1 yeah maybe i don't know maybe i can play knight g5 knight g5 oh yeah you somehow tried to say that the light squares yeah definitely i could imagine this go either way maybe even f4 is possible right maybe yeah yeah okay so instead of that one you chose knight a5 not going for the poisoned pawn and now f3 bishop a6 queen a2 c6 yeah i was not part of this move c6 you know oh stupid i didn't know what to do yeah it's not easy to to make progress with black here because white just brings all the pieces in the center but then you were able to turn it around because we actually thought that white was doing great here in this game yeah for sure but i don't know what she missed during the game let's have a look so queen d7 here the critical position yeah and c5 was it the right moment or i don't know looks good for her but to be honest i didn't think about it during the game i was surprised yeah so what were you considering for white here maybe h4 just h4 gaining more space and yeah and i didn't see how to continue yeah for me because so it was the sort of position where it's difficult to find a useful move right for me yeah but for her she can improve yeah yeah definitely so c5 was sort of the moment when you felt a bit of a relief right yeah all right and here after bishop d3 rook takes d3 i guess it's forced right yeah he takes d4 c takes d4 logical d5 and now d5 e5 and i try h7 all right she played f4 and i'd c4 maybe yeah she has to try g4 g4 right to try to make this pawns running faster right yeah this this definitely looks interesting what about taking on c4 could she take here she takes c4 and let's say rook somewhere not sure where c3 i think c3 no there's d4 yeah he's free oh wait e3 correctly the pawn on d4 was hanging here right i wanted to play yeah queen d5 or d5 yeah i think and can she maybe try g4 here i was thinking i don't know yeah this position looks very strange uh even if she played f5 yeah i can play before and i don't know how she and then this bishop isn't great it's coming here and yeah and the pawn might be all right so knight c4 doesn't really i think g4 was the best move oh so here here g4 yeah here right because you don't have these nice squares for the queen yeah compared to the position in um all right so she played bishop c3 here and you played a five and i g2 i think she missed knight f6 but i don't know here yeah here knight f6 and the knight is coming to e4 there should have been probably a blunder because now the knight on e4 was just a monster for the rest of the game all right so basically this was uh was it the last moment when she made a mistake or could she play better afterwards as well or yeah it was not clear after but at least with my knight on e4 i have some h4 and yeah yeah definitely like the game i can give the rook and my knight are very strong definitely so queen h5 here rook f8 and here after queen g6 we thought that queen h8 was a very good move for you because i don't know yeah i did it but because the end game looks like you don't have to worry about all these attacks on the king side right mm-hmm all right so g4 followed i'm curious also to ask about the moment when you sacrificed here the exchange so here did you consider other moves as well or it just came naturally as the first instinct to you yeah it was my first instinct yeah mm-hmm but i was in time trouble so i just wanted to trade the queens and play decent game all right so actually it seemed like it worked out very well rook f8 she takes a takes i think she has to keep the f4 pawn i see and rook f1 rook f1 okay so basically if she keeps the f pawn then probably she has a better chance to hold this one right yeah yeah for sure because afterwards it looked like black was just i think yes i'm just winning yeah mm-hmm all right so congratulations on a great win can i ask you how how do you feel in in this tournament in gibraltar how is your mood now i feel better but at the beginning of the tournament i lost the first two games so it was quite difficult but now i'm in a good mood yeah and how did you manage to to come back after that because it's definitely not easy yeah after two losses the third game was very important because if i lost it then my tournament is maybe over yeah i see and i won this game and then i was back and i played quite quite good chess i think yeah definitely the next two games were very interesting we enjoyed your g4 novelty in the newt so yeah it was lovely to have you here thank you thank you for your insights and best of luck in the remaining games thank you we'll take a short break now and we'll be back to analyzing the remaining games welcome back everybody this is round seven of battle of the sexes we just saw bilal talk about his win against nino nino in a terrible rut at the moment unfortunately she's just everything's going wrong for her bilal on the ascent though winning a few games importantly for the boys who are currently uh two games up in today's match ravi harrier converting as we expected and the game between yuvanka and leandro ended in a draw as we also expected meaning that there's only one game left and we're going to go straight there the game between joe gallagher and irine sucanda irine with the white pieces and the position is as follows on the board and irine well she shouldn't have to be careful here but she's only got 50 34 seconds and bishop f7 has just been played with the idea of coming over here to h5 she has this move in worst case scenario or knight b1 going to d2 right and she's protecting the pawn on f3 but then after bishop h5 knight d2 let's say um now it's getting a bit difficult for for white to make any progress because the knight has to stay and protect the f3 pawn could she try something you know actually rook c3 no that's that's probably gonna be a draw right yeah i i don't see i mean you can play for example knight to e6 here hitting the rook the rook moves and then you put the knight on d4 but again you just don't really have what about rook a8 here after knight d4 okay and what's the idea i wanted to play rook h8 okay then when the king goes okay so actually i'm not sure what what am i gonna do because yeah with the pawn on f3 uh attacked by these two pieces the bishop on h5 yeah it's difficult i can just go bishop f7 for example rook f8 and king g6 maybe i could no but even king h3 bishop b6 yeah and i cannot really go to h4 because i might run into some even this even this you survive because there's no good discovery but i don't see honestly how to make progress and i i think it's just one of those positions where um you know with uh with best play it should be uh should be a draw yeah but let's not forget that it seemed like the same situation was going on yesterday when uh when gunai actually lost what looked like completely drawish end game against bobby maybe there is still something iran can come up with i think against somebody who's experienced as joe i think uh it's gonna be a difficult task yeah i really can't see joe losing this and what would that mean if this game is uh gonna end with a draw uh what would be the score today if this game ends in a draw then the boys are going to be up too which is uh absolutely not what i thought was going to happen and that will mean that actually men will lead overall with four points that's quite uh quite a big difference she's gonna blend the king f2 bishop takes f3 is in the air i smelt it a mile off bishop takes f3 wait but there is rook takes e5 and it's a draw yeah but i mean he can make a draw immediately yeah but he is gonna play it and then and then she has to find rook takes e5 but i mean it's still quite a blunder yeah she didn't see it as you can tell by for let's go there quick to the camera what don't look at us she didn't see it for sure and now she just needs to find rook takes f5 and we are rook takes e5 oh yeah she's definitely gonna find this i believe and then then it will be a draw because the pun end game is actually drawing so rook takes e5 important just to point out that sorry uh what happened in the game was king e6 king f2 and joe set it up bishop takes f3 now on knight takes f3 94 check would actually win but she's very lucky because after king f2 bishop takes f3 she can give the rook with rook takes e5 check but she's got her head in her hands what is after king takes e5 knight f3 knight f3 king f3 it's just a drawn pun end game yeah very very standard she just needs to be a bit careful about her clock she's got 34 seconds it should be enough yeah i really hope she finds rook takes e5 check because if she doesn't play that move i think she'll lose because i think the two pawns it still should be a draw actually because you could try ideas with sacrificing the rook versus two pawns but with low very low yeah she goes for it yeah and this is gonna end in a draw any moment now yeah so a very confident play by joe here in what i thought would be not an easy end game but actually you were very confident that he's gonna he's gonna make it yeah yes i believe so so once again actually today we see a lot of decisive games so only four draws that's gonna be only four draws yeah only four draws a lot of decisive games and actually a big surprise for the boys to win this today um by two points with the black pieces is is very bad news for the for the girls team because of course now the boys will have white tomorrow you can see they're the individual results uh some really impressive performances today you've got to say congratulations to eric rose and eric to beat pier with black is is really an impressive result um for uh balash to beat gunai with black extremely impressive ravi also uh managing to just he's a bit he's doing a bit of a houdini and getting out of big uh big holes this tournament so saving some vital points um bilal of course yeah actually i believe it was one of the most uh surprising turnaround because it seemed like marcel was doing so great after the opening she was in the middle game i think she outplayed ravi but then she didn't handle well um the position and yeah ravi took took his chances and marcel couldn't couldn't hold the game exactly so this will be over now after this game finishes we are going to have the team captains join us she just needs to make one move here which is a move that school boys know you have to move the king back to f1 that's the i'll just well sorry so we'll just put this on the board yeah so even if you don't have time you just have to remember that the king goes in front of the pond and now it will be a stalemate i believe yeah it's the only move and joe will play until stalemate yeah and uh we see the player smiling um but i believe uh i believe it's definitely a good result today for um for joe even though it looked like he was in control at some point i think it's probably a bad result for joe it's um i think so i think he was really on top at some moment in this game uh way in the middle game i can't say exactly when but i i think if we speak to joe afterwards we'll you know around this point it felt as though he was in big control so i think joe will be disappointed uh with the result but i tell you who will not be disappointed and that is Sabino Brunello the men's team captain he'll be thinking wow what a what a score today uh given the positions that were on the board it was uh it was a really really really important victory for the boys and what we're going to do is we're going to go for a very very short break and then we're going to have a quick chat with the team captains and get their opinions of what happened today and uh be interesting to hear from them so don't go anywhere we'll be back in just a jiffy thanks hello everybody and welcome back the round for today has finished round seven and it was the men's team that came out on top winning by a margin of two points firstly congratulations Sabino but thank you i'll talk to pia first pia it's been a difficult day you had a really tough game yourself yeah yeah yeah absolutely absolutely and uh so yeah for me i just went i went wrong and open and i think i had one chance to be in the game when i play nighty two i have to go 94 maybe i'm still is worse but i have to go night 94 or night the night if yeah 94 yes too too but okay i guess you go queen in five but if you want to yeah i think it's if you play with the two rooks i i think i can i can hold that i i think so so so what i play after nighty two is just over the game is just finished so that that was my game but i heard we had such a we had a lots of good positions today you had some great position before the round i was very optimistic about the girl's chances and at some point it looked as though you know jan sire had a great position maria had it was always going to win your bank i had a great position nino had an interesting position marie had a what looked like an interesting position against sabina maybe we can get some words from him in a moment marcella i think was just winning and only it was really gunai uh yourself and even iran that was interesting well an ogre one so disappointing so what do you do now because you are now uh four points behind yeah yeah no i will have three rounds what do you what you've got a steady the ship somehow yeah yeah no we will have to have a talk we will also see if we will have if it's possible at the end to annetta we'll enter now finally right because uh yeah this is what we're hoping we have been missing her of course she's she's the one of the absolutely most experienced player and she could only play the first round so i mean there are three more matches we can't give up the hope we have to we have to try something absolutely absolutely and sabino today i mean it was a pretty wild day let's talk quickly about your game at some point it looked as though you might have been in some trouble or was that just a poor evaluation from our side yeah i misplayed at some point unfortunately i yeah well to be fair i had some very nice opportunities i think i was winning in a couple of positions and i i missed the way forward so sort of by accident she got this pretty decent compensation for a pawn eventually and i pushed a little too hard my night went too far and she got yeah some f5 option which would have been um yeah very unpleasant to to meet so so do you think a draw a draw is a fair result maybe yeah more or less i mean i would have preferred to win but i would have been very disappointed in losing this game actually okay and what about in general your team i as you just heard you had a lot of shaky looking positions today yeah let's say were you always confident though or um well i was busy playing my own games right when they were in danger so yeah and then things got better and i sort of skipped the dangerous zone we're playing fighting chess it's very interesting games they're complicated who are you most you got some dubious positions and we lost to the games that's true who are you most impressed with at the moment of your team who is really i'm not sure many of us are playing really really well our Hungarian player he's been so solid doesn't he he's been playing very well and today he yeah he got a much better position right away which was great for our confidence as well because you know when one of your players has a very good position we got some yeah it was a tough game to to be honest Eric also did fantastic i guess yeah so yes and leandro is of course great incredibly solid we've got a number of players who are performing well and you know giving stability to the team now Antoinette i beg your pardon pia was saying Antoinette coming back four of you don't know Antoinette tested positive for covid a few right at the beginning she's been in isolation she's now i hope fingers crossed going to test negative um what kind of an impact do you do you see that making or are you are you just it doesn't really matter for you guys and you're just going to keep on doing what you're doing right yeah we will accept life as it is and just play our games i don't think that uh yeah of course she's a very strong player we're sorry for her trouble obviously especially from a human standpoint right um i mean nino is not about player either as a reserve player so she's had a really tough time there's nothing to celebrate anyway no we're not happy that we had this incident yeah and talking nino's she's had a real tough few games we all feel so sorry because she's had actually great positions a lot of the time um is she going to be somebody you talk to privately perhaps or because you know there are people suffering more than others perhaps yeah but that now we have been we are someone who has been suffering yeah yes but it's possible if we don't know what will happen with Antoinette because it's one of those who will play this is it's it's either the reserve or Antoinette or it's it's not that we can choose who we want to take out it doesn't work like this it's the so yeah but i will absolutely have a talk with my with my girls yeah of course indeed now round eight tomorrow you've got black but black is all right as we've seen in the past few rounds so i expect more fighting chess what can i say the people watching this have been really impressed with the level of fight and determination there's been no super let's say dry rounds every round has been full of interesting moments and i think with only a four points difference anything can happen so we'll see round eight tomorrow getting towards the the home straights and thank you to everybody who has been with us today of course another day of ups and downs and drama and we expect more tomorrow the boy is leading by four points with three rounds to go but that is not the end of the story four points can be made up at any moment i hope you can all join us again tomorrow same time same place and uh until then we wish you a great evening thanks again and see you tomorrow


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