We'll start with you, thanks. Hello and welcome to the 10th and final round of this 2020 International Givolted Chess Festival, David. I'm excited Fiona, it's the money round, everything's happening, everything's still to play for. I mean yesterday was the most dramatic day of chess that I have ever witnessed and today with one round to go, everything is still to play for. I don't think I've ever heard of more players that could potentially still win a tournament. No, that's right. I think up to 19 players can win our first prize. Up to a dozen women can still win the women's top prize. So much money to play for and hopefully lots of fighting chess. Absolutely incredible. So here, quick recap. After the quiet of round eight yesterday, we had such a storm here in Gibraltar. The top two boards between our four leaders were drawn, but not after some incredible drama. Yeah, a huge turnaround, especially on board two. Well, Andrzej Sopenko as Black was simply a queen for two pieces up. I think a winning advantage, nine times out of the ten, he'd win that without any trouble and he couldn't quite make it. He would have been the sole leader going into today. Instead, we have five leaders after on board three. Mustafa Yilmaz joined them by beating Ivan Cheparinov. Yeah, a bit of a Swiss gambit by the Turkish player. But yesterday, when it counts, he was there, he beat our early leader, Cheparinov. Then we had two draws between Pragnananda and Kobalyar and between the two Russians, Yufa and Alexenko. Now for the standings, David. I mean, this is perfect. That you see on the right of us. We do see the five leaders out there on seven points out of nine. There's a huge group, though, behind them, only half a point behind them between sixth place and 21st place. If anyone wins from that group, they could jump up and join the leaders. We'll be talking about the tiebreak, the playoff rules as we go along. I think there's chances of seeing a playoff quite high. We could see a massive playoff of up to four players even. Four players is the maximum limit. I think we'll have plenty of time to talk about it. And I think it's time to look at the pairings now for today's all-important final round. So on board one, and it's even more heartbreaking for Andrey Yassipenko because, as you said, most likely he would have gotten the same pairing even with a win. He will be white. Hopefully he will have been able to recover overnight and he's playing against Wang Hao. That's right, and a huge pairing there. Wang Hao did manage to beat him a few months ago in the Isle of Man, so hopefully our young star, Yassipenko, can bounce back on board two. Another battle between the leaders, David Paravian and Mustafa Yulmaz. Huge opportunity for both of them. Biggest game of their careers by a mile, I think. I think if you had told either of these two players that they would go into the last round as a co-leader and no offense again to none of the two players, but they're both, you know, like low 2600. So I expect a big slugfest there with chances for both sides, I think. And then on board three, our co-top seed, MVL is back on the top board. Yeah, I saw him yesterday. He was looking for this kind of pairing. He needs to win now and hope that results go his way in order to jump into the top four. He still needs a few swings to get into top four on performance, but... I think for Max Zulu it's interesting. Like, there might be an element of tiredness. He played an extremely long game, but he will have such a boost, I think, from saving that game. So that's another very interesting one. Then Topalov with the black pieces and against Bogdan Deyac should be another interesting game. No, that's right. Again, Topalov is in the same situation as MVL. He needs to win now. And as we see with David Navarra on board five. He's playing against Mr Dejan. He's his number one fan. He's not in the chat with us yet, but surely won't be long. Dennis Kadridge yesterday.  If you through those games as we go along, we'll be keeping an eye mostly today on the potential prize winners. Absolutely. Both male and female. Let's bring up the top board, David. Andrea Sipenko against Wang Hao. That's right. And it looks like there have been a few moves here. Currently, we do have Sipenko deep in thought, but he did get the memo. White shirt from White Game. He's looking very slick. And I think biggest game of his career as well. No more Arsenal. Wang Hao is staying true to his favorite jacket. And let's look at the opening moves here. That's right. So we did see the Catalan. Maybe in honor of Catalan Bay, just down the road here from the Coletta Hotel. And I mean, it's been so popular this tournament. And Wang Hao decided to choose the line with C6 in this position. A6 is by far the most popular move. There's also move B6. Lots of options here for Black. What kind of approach, David, you have played here, you know, on the very, very top boards in the final round. What sort of approach do you expect from not just these two, but maybe from our five leaders? Yeah, I mean, for the five leaders, especially those with the best performance ratings, I would say don't go out and take too many risks, especially in the early stages. The games will be decided toward move 30-40 when the nerves really kick in.  Because, of course, I think they would all love to add Gibraltar to their CV, but there was also a lot of money at stake and a last round loss. I mean, yeah, first prize, £30,000, and that will not be shared. That will be taken by the winner, either on points or after the playoff. I think the strategy with Black is to mostly keep things solid if you can survive the opening. Maybe your opponent will start pressing too much, and then a bit of a counter-attacking strategy. I think that's Wang Hao's style, either way. He doesn't like to go all out and crazy tactics. I was thinking this as well. He will sit and wait, build up a solid position, but if he gets any chance at all, he will bounce. Yeah, and if Espenko goes on tilt, which isn't impossible after yesterday's game, Wang Hao might well get his chances, but maybe not the most ambitious opening for Wang Hao so far. This C6 line is supposed to equalise, but no more than that. And I guess we'll see how Espenko does, what kind of approach he chooses. Yeah, I think it will be... I don't know if we'll be able to see how he has recovered yesterday. Actually, after the round, I was so tired, I called a bus back to our hotel immediately, and Espenko was on the same bus, and he was by himself. He might actually be playing here by himself. I remember I said, I talked to last night, I'm sure, even if he is by himself, he can phone someone, but it was very sad to see him on the bus by himself. Maybe he'll go and watch some Arsenal highlights on YouTube, take his mind off the chess, and completely reset. I mean, here we see him have a little think about the opening. I'm just hoping that he's not dwelling on yesterday's game too much. And Quinn takes C4. So we come back to this one. Let's move on to board 2, where we've had a few more moves between David Paravian and Mustafa Yilmaz. That's right. This one looks like another Sicilian, a very competitive opening. I think Yilmaz has been playing this as long as I've known him. We used to play in these World Junior events occasionally, and he's been playing the Sicilian Naidov specifically for at least, I think, 10, 15 years, and he's stuck true to his guns. That's another good thing to do in the last round. You don't want to prepare too much, especially in the morning. I mean, we're starting four hours earlier than normal here. Just stick to your normal stuff and trust that you'll know better than your opponents. You know, I think Mustafa Yilmaz is slightly, the slight underdog waiting-wise, but I think in these last rounds, David Paravian is a player I don't know too well. He's, you know, a few, maybe almost 10 years younger. I think he's five years younger than Yilmaz. But Mustafa Yilmaz has played, you know, at the top level these top events. He's represented Turkey so many times. Still only 27, still a youngster. Yeah, I didn't realize that. I thought he was close to being my age. He's not that ancient. Nobody's that old for you.  That's right. And we saw Paravian actually yawning there. I think the first half hour, we'll see a lot of that from players. I know from experience, if a game normally starts 3pm every day, which it has been doing, you don't want to wake up too early. You don't want to burn out too early in the day. You want to peak a bit later in the afternoon. But suddenly players are playing in the morning here, and they will be readjusting over the first few minutes of the game. Absolutely. Early days. White has... I mean, if we just check back in just quickly, White has gone for the line with Bishop d3, which is kind of all the rage nowadays. It used to be not seen at all. Bishop d3 is such a rare move. But after a few more developments, I think this is quite standard stuff. I think this one will burst into life a bit later. But promising signs. Absolutely. Let's check in with board 3. MVL against Magsoud Lou, I think. Magsoud Lou arrived eight minutes late to the game, so we've only seen a couple of moves here. d4, d5, c4. Wow, and he's shocked. Magsoud Lou not playing one e4. I am even more shocked that Magsoud Lou has... He's suited up. given up on his lucky rest to suit up. I think it suits him. We saw him like that because the dress code was enforcing it in the Isle of Man. And his lucky puffer jacket. I know, I know. That's why I'm very impressed. He didn't have to. But very, very impressive stuff. And also, I like the fact that then, hopefully that means he's not too superstitious. If he can give up on his rest, good on him. And yeah, MVL I don't recall when the last time was he didn't play e4. No, that's right. Actually, two rounds ago. He played the English opening two rounds ago. But now he is back to his old favorite. Or was it yesterday, maybe? I think actually Magsoud Lou is doing a great thing here. I got this tip from Nigel Short a few years ago. Especially for the important rounds, especially morning rounds if the routine is changing. The thing to do, dress smart. Get showered, get clean, dress smart. And actually it makes you feel more professional. It makes you feel ready for the big challenge ahead. I mean, this is just a one-off game for him as well. He's still in joint lead. Magsoud Lou, half a point above his opponent. He knows that Maxime's going all out for the win. And if he can counterattack and win himself, it might be one of the biggest days of his career. Absolutely. You are right. He's still finishing with a double white. He had the white pieces yesterday to beat Emre Can. So he could actually. He hasn't won a single game at this Gibraltar with the black pieces. Yeah, it looks like six whites and four blacks. A lucky draw for MBL. That's right. So we'll see what he can make of this extra white. We have a Nimzo on the board. It's kind of a hybrid. It's not quite the Nimzo Indian. It's a mix between the Nimzo and the Queens gambit declined. So black is delaying putting this knight on f6. I mean, it could well become a Ragozin system. Knight f3, knight to f6. I think the reason this is less popular for black is the move a3. And it transposes, it forces black into a line of the Nimzo that he might not be so familiar with. Either way, I mean, Maxime taking risks here. I think he's going to be out of book already. Parham is more flexible with his openings. Everything under the sun. As we know from yesterday, he studies 20 hours a day on chess. So he's going to be well versed in whatever opening comes on the board. MBL was my pick to win the tournament. Also, one of the two players who I wanted to see it win. Your pick is on board one. We've done quite well also in the women's standings. But let's continue for now. I think we'll check in with maybe, or shall we go to the top two women players? We have seen all the top men. So we have seen the top three board. So David, talk us through the women's standings. Who can still fight for that huge first prize of 20,000 parents? That's right, actually. There is a sole leader for the women right now. Former world champion Tan Zong Yi. She's the current title holder here in Gibraltar. Sorry. She's on six points out of nine, but there's a huge group chasing her on five and a half. There's four players, half a point back. And the women's prize, we should remind you, there's no playoff, unfortunately. So that if there is a tie, first prize will be decided by performance and they won't share that 20,000-pound first prize. So let's go to her board. And she's playing funny enough against Maxime Lagarde who yesterday got away in the end with a draw against the other Chinese, Lei Ting Jing. That's right. And Maxime Lagarde, could he crush the China's hopes? It looks like not much has happened here. I think Maxime, so on board 19, Maxime does tend to arrive a bit late for his games. We've seen that on a couple of days. Both Maxime. I know Maxime, it was Parham who... Sorry. Yeah, so Maxime Lagarde, not to be confused with Maxime Vashi-Lagarde, the fellow countrymen though, and early days. So Tanzong Yu, I think it's a big favourite here to clinch the women's title. I think a draw with White might be enough. Her performance rating isn't as high as some of the players half a point behind her, but some of her rivals are playing very strong opponents too. Absolutely. But Maxime Lagarde is a very fighting player. He hasn't had the best event, and I think he will try. Yes. He will try and win with the black pieces. We will come back to this one. Shall we go back to the top boards now before we look at checking with some more of the women's players or do you want to continue with the women? Maybe we can check in on her rivals just quickly. She does have four players chasing her. We have Abdou Malik who unfortunately went down in a long-end game yesterday. I think she was drawing for most of the game, but couldn't quite hold on at the end. So just a few boards down, on board 23. David Jocelyn, I thought there were five players chasing her. I think it's just the four... Isn't it Leitinger, Abdou Malik, and the three Georgians? I think it's two Georgians. No, I think it's two Georgians. I think she lost again yesterday, unfortunately. Yes, you are correct. Sorry, David. I've done my homework for you. Check out if you want to see a close-up of David's prep notes. You can find them on my Twitter and on my Facebook. It's very, very, very impressive stuff. I was up late last night. This is the crunch time. I'm not playing. I should at least have the... I mean, I feel duty-bound to prepare anyway. As a chess player, we often prepare two, three hours for a game. I thought, why not throw that in on preparation for the commentary? So let's look at my pick for the women's prize, Leitinger. She's playing against Vasif Durabayli on board... 22. And here we go, Leitinger. Just half a point behind her compatriots. And she's sitting next to Abdou Malik, so that will be an easy switch to go to. That's right. No, that's a great camera angle. Let's see the women's side-by-side. David, sorry. My fashion, radar. Can we go to the left, the tiniest bit? I have just spotted an incredible shirt there. That's Pierre-Louis G. Basso. Can we zoom in on that? I'm getting at the lepsis. I know what the hell is going on there. I mean, I like it bold, but this is very bold. Disturbingly bold. And I recognize the opening as well on their board. It's funny how you get drawn to the fashion. I get drawn to the chess position on board. I mean, how could you not get drawn to this shirt? It actually looks like, I don't know, I'll have to go upstairs and... too bold in the morning, cruel in the chat. Yeah, this time I'll have to agree with you. I like it bold, but it's too early. It's too early in the day. Actually, on both of these boards, I think we're going to see very sharp chess.  I mean, first prize, £20,000 for the women. Second prize, £10,000. It's a lot of money, and they need to win, essentially. So let's look at the opening here in Leitinger. We see the... Gary, the G-Pon is already on G5. That's right. How did we get here? We do have this Moscow variation of the semi-slav with H6 and Bishop H4 taking on C4. We do not see the Botvinnik line, the old Botvinnik line with B5, E5. I mean, I used to watch videos of this when I was young, and it was super sharp, these lines. I mean, often 30, 35 moves a theory, so I'm glad we're avoiding that. But instead, G5. It's the modern trendy move. Not a Bishop E2. Looks like Black is having a little think. Dura Baile. Nosey's entering into a super sharp line. To be honest, I quite like White's chances in these lines. Check out the game, Magnus Carlsen against Maxi Matlikov from the Isle of Man. A couple of months ago. Yeah, I mean, so much recent developments here, especially with the aid of AlphaZero and all these AI, I mean, LaylaZero, these kind of engines are just providing so many new ideas, rich ideas in these complicated positions. But aggressive start. White has sacrificed a pawn. And sooner or later, we'll see White push with H4, maybe push with E5, maybe even A4 as well. Both are ex-pawns, up the board. And, yeah, short stuff coming, short stuff. Yeah, this one will keep a very close eye on. Let's zoom over to Shanzaiya Abdul Malik on board 23. She's also so playing with White pieces and she's playing against Mr. Alain Pichot. Yeah. I still don't know how to. I've always pronounced it Pichot and then yesterday I was told, why do you pronounce it the French way? I still don't know how I should pronounce it. I was about to say how impressed I was by your pronunciation. I'll just say Pichot until I get corrected. I know for the best. No, that's right. And actually another very sharp line here, but many moves have been played. They'll move 15 already and I think on some other boards we're only on move four or five. Incredible. And if we just catch up with the current play, it is the Spanish Abdul Malik's very loyal to her 1, E4. And we see a bit of a hybrid system with Bishop E7 and Bishop B7, which is rare nowadays. And Bishop takes F7, check. Wow. Sharp stuff already. This is good to see. White gives a check. If King takes Bishop, Knight takes E5 and this knight on D4 falls. White is a pawn up and Black will never be able to castle anymore. His king has moved already. I don't know if this is theoretical, yeah? Kind of. I think I've seen it, but I have never looked in depth. It's very rare. It's very rare. I think it's supposed to be a bit dodgy for Black, but I mean maybe that's what Pichot wants. He wants to provoke his opponent early on and it does imbalance things. So Black does get the Bishop here. White's Bishop does end up having to retreat. Yes, today Pichot was on the other side. He was the material up, but his king against that. I think Olympia treated, for example. It was a great, great game to see, you know, this imbalance between material imbalance, but King saved you. That's right. And I mean, that King much alone for White, marching that King all the way up to E7, kind of dancing through the battlefield was very exciting to watch. One of the games of the tournament, I think. Absolutely. And this one, yeah, it is the equal material, but Black's King is never going to be entirely safe and White does have a nice clamp, a nice bind in the centre early days, but promising, I think, for Abdomalic in terms of getting a fight and, I mean, in a kind of muscle-in situation. I think she's got what she wants. Absolutely. Absolutely. Quick look at the two Georgian ladies. Oh, one game has ended in a draw already. Oh, dear. Wow. Board 31, Sébastien Mazé with the White pieces and Léla Yavakishvili have drawn their game. So I guess that means that Léla must be out of contention. I guess her performance was not... That's right. Léla had the worst performance out of the chasing group on five and a half out of nine. So she jumps up to the joint need now with the women, but there's no chance she can get the £20,000 first prize. She will miss out on that by performance. But she will probably still... I mean, Six is a very decent score. She was Black against Sébastien Mazé. She was the rating underdog. So on paper, still not too bad a result for her. No, that's right. Not too bad a result. I mean, we can just check that one out. It's exciting stuff, but somehow, I mean, this is a well-known draw. Unfortunately, it was the modern defence and, well, the perk defence, and Black plays the C5 move. White has lots of options, but instead, Mazé decided to force a draw with the C6 line. Black gives up a queen temporarily, but does force this perpetual check. So disappointing, but for Léla, a good result on paper. Just it means she will miss out on first prize for the women. So last women player on five and a half is Nino Batya-Svili on board 29, and she's playing against Vahap Sanal from Turkey, who's had a great event here. Nino herself is also gaining 11 rating points, also a great tournament for her. So let's see this one. So we're just going to zoom over, and there we see Vahap with the glasses and the Black pieces. That's right. So actually, the three remaining chasing, of the chasing pack for the women's prize, they all have White, and they're all playing high rated opponents, but having the White pieces is such a bonus in the final round. Here we do see the London system, I believe. We can just trace our steps back. Everyone plays the London system nowadays. Actually, B6, a bit of opening knowledge, B6 is supposed to be bad here in this exact position, although so many grandmasters play it. It's kind of an autopilot move. It looks like it's developing, but actually, White can now play the move, Nc3, and this is very annoying for Black, because the standard, Bb7, is going to be met by Nb5, jumping into either D6 or c7, and Black can't prevent it. And if D6, I'll take on c5, opening up the queen, and White is already crushing here. And if Black stops, Nb5 ideas like a6, then D5 for White, and White is supposed to have an advantage. Even in kind of slower systems, even in kind of tepid openings like the London system, there are some tricks, some traps, and it looks like neither player was aware of that one, Bd3, and it helps reading books. I found that one in a book on the London system. Okay, a very standard game so far, and after a5, B5, White decides to press ahead, c4. It looks like she's quite well prepared in this game. Yeah, we can't actually see her clock times on screen or on camera, but I think she's been playing every move pretty much instantly. She had a quick thing after B6, funnily enough. Maybe she record there was something or she's trying to remember what position it was. But there was an event trick on camera with his cap. It's a Gibraltar cap. I saw him in town yesterday. If we get another angle on him, it reads Gibraltar. He loves it here, in Gibraltar. He does. Unfortunately, it's not been a great event for him, but I'm sure he'll be back. He's always back. He's ageless. He's the legend of the game. David, let's come back to the top boards. Let's do it. Let's very quickly have one through the top three boards, which will be our main focus to see if we've had any developments there. And I think we'll check in briefly with all the group on 6.5 who all have an outside chance still of winning this tournament. That's right, a massive group on 6.5. These two top two, they are on 7 points. And it looks like Espencos have been having a bit of a think. If we check in on that game, it looks like Wang Hao has spent no time at all. Actually gained time on the clock and Espencos been the only one thinking. So we're about to see Knight Bd2. That's right. We last left it after Qc4, Black played B5. The idea behind his last move, C6. And after Qc2, Bb7, we saw Bg5. I was looking at a game recently. I wrote a newspaper column on it and it started with rook d1. Okay, I'll put it on the board. Rook d1, knight d7. Knight d5, I believe. Oh, knight c3 first. I know, it was knight d5. I'm trying to remember. And it was Fabiano. It's early in the morning. It's early in the morning. You can check out that game, Karawana against Duda from Vaikanzai just last week. And Karawana won a very nice game with white. He made it look like Black's system was a bit dodgy. But maybe Espenko thought that Wanghao had an improvement there. So Bg5 instead. Swapping off that bishop. But now after knight bd2, he's going to try and clamp down on Black's queen side. He's going to try and control the c5 square. That's the important one in the position. And Black has reacted immediately, c5. If white had time to clamp down on that square, then Black's bishop would be bad forever on b7. Look at Wanghao. It's up three minutes on the clock. There we see the angle. So for once actually, I think it's one of the first time that we had the Black clock that the video matches the digital clock. He's up three minutes. He's come extremely well prepared. And he is going to put that pressure on Andre Espenko. That's right. I mean, if I remember correctly, I think this is supposed to end in equalish type of position after d take c5 and just rook c8. I think white is unable to hold onto the c pawn too long. And chances will be balanced a bit later on, but hopefully we see some tension in the position. I'm just worried we might see lots of exchanges and a draw.  I'm a pessimist. What do you call a bringer of that news? A doomsayer. Let's move on to word two, Paravian and Mustafa Yilmaz. Yes, and this one's exciting. The duel of the stripy shirts. That's right. He was wearing a shirt like that someday, and it was very psychedelic. Even here it kind of hurts. Nervous, right? And Paravian, I mean, this is his favorite jacket as well. His favorite suit jacket is... I've played him before, I think, a few years ago, he was wearing it too, so maybe a lucky jacket. Lucky jacket. Let's go back to where we left it off. Knight takes f4, knight c6. Only a couple more moves. Yeah, only a couple more moves. A bit of a thing here by Paravian. He actually captured this bishop on e6 and queen to f3. I mean, he's trying to give checkmate. He's hoping for the move knight to d7, and queen f7 would be checkmate. I don't think we'll see that today. I doubt it. But white has an idea. So, for example, if black castles, which is natural, he'll play queen h3, eyeing up e6, and possibly trying something on h7 as well. I like it. You like it? I love my open f files. I like my sneaky attacks on the king side. Good on David Paravian, and I expect... I think, for me, this is the one game where both players will feel like this is the chance of a lifetime. Exactly. And they will both be going for it. No, that's right. Especially Yulmans as well with black. He knows his performance rating is much lower than the other four leaders at the moment. He's in a must-win situation pretty much. For those of you just joining us, a playoff will have a maximum of four players. If all the top few boards are drawn, Yulmans will have no chance of getting into that playoff because the top four are chosen on performance rating. So, yeah, chance of a lifetime. £30,000 possibly waiting for the winner here. And likewise, Paravian, he'll be going all out with white for the win. So, let's move on to board 3. MVL and Magzolou. MVL has opened with a queen's gambit, which is very uncharacteristic. Yes. And let's catch up here. Yeah, we did leave it after bishop e4. It did transpose into the Rogozin. The Rogozin defense. And after knight f6, cxd5. I mean, this is all very standard stuff. Actually, I was just looking at the clock times again. So, after d4, actually I was saying that Parham was late to the game, but only because I was judging by the clock times. But I think it's actually very likely he wasn't late to the game at all, so I retract what I said earlier. Apologies to Parham. It's very likely there. We see Dennis's jump. That must be him just behind Parham. David, don't say anything. It'll be fine. The tournament is almost over. I like Parham's suit and booted. The kind of paint splashed hoodie is not my style. But yeah, I think Parham actually, so I revise what I said. I think after d4, he took eight minutes to decide how to react. But then interestingly enough, he blitzed out every other move after that even. After knight c3, bishop b4, and it took him six seconds. That's right.  There must be a reason. And he thought, OK, do I use my normal repertoire? Do I play something a bit tricky? Catch him off guard. I'm sure Maxime's looked at this. He did play d4. There was a period in his life for about a year or two. He was switching a bit to d4 before heading back to his favorite e4. But Parham's playing something very topical. d5 has been played by players like Magnus Garson, Alexander Grisha, Mamadi Arov, lots of top-level games in this position. By the way, MVL today is also sporting a sponsored shirt. That is Colliers. You can't see it right now, but Colliers, he has been sponsored by them for a few years. They also are supporting chess in France. They are part of the sponsors of the Grand Chess Tour Tournament in Paris. So, good stuff. Is it time to do a tour of all the players on six and a half? Yes, it's going to be a long day. Six and a half, I think 15 players on six and a half points. And here we go. So, it's actually quite easy today, but it's because it's all the top 10 boards, and then only 11 Ariane Chopra as well, but only him, Ivan Chopra-Runov, has been up-floated. Unfortunately, after his great start, he's had a tough second half to his tournament. So, let's start with board four, Bogdan Derg against Wesson and Topalov. That's right. Actually, yeah, I was mistaken. There are 16 players on six and a half, not 15, because of that down-float as well. And everyone in a must-win situation. Actually, MVL and Topalov are some of the highest-performing players on six and a half. So, they know that if they do win, there's a small chance they might jump up into the playoff. Very competitive opening in this one as well. So, knight f3, it does transpose into the slav, and knight h4. This does invite a well-known repetition with bishop c8, knight f3 and bishop f5. Luckily, Topalov's not in the mood for that. Topalov is very rarely in the mood for quick repetition, and thankfully, we have a full-fledged fight here on our hands. I mean, I slightly prefer white just because of the bishop pair, especially this bishop on c4 looks very nice and strong at the moment. And white's last move does prepare e4 as well, so white is aiming to get the pawn center. Where does black's play come from? I think black has to counter in the center soon or later. Black usually tries to play c5 as soon as possible. If you play c5, either you'll open up some lines. Actually, when you're facing the bishop pair, especially in the middle game, the way to react is to accelerate the play often. You can't let the bishop pair gain time to get organized. You want to speed things up. So c5 would make sense, and if d5, you get the knight e5 jump, you get this square, beautiful square for the knight. So I would expect c5, but there are some tricks. Sometimes white can play this move knight a2 with ideas that d takes c5 now might be impossible. Oh, okay, bishop takes is a good move, but if rook takes now, then b4 would be annoying. So you do have to be slightly careful with black. I'm pretty sure I've seen this position. I'm just trying to remember the exact move order. Maybe as is Topalov. Shall we leave him to it, David? Yes. Let's move on to board 5, where I expect the splashy jumper to make an appearance, the splashy hoodie. He's away from the board right now. There couldn't be any more too contrasting players. A lot of the players are suited in Brutus today, but I think David Navarra has literally worn a suit and tie every single. We saw him actually with the polo of his, with the chest piece polo, but David Navarra always very well dressed at the politest and most friendly and most humble person you could ever meet. I've been a fan of Denis's chest, but I'm rooting for David today because he's just the best.  I'm not sure Denis fans in the chat will be too happy to hear you say that. Okay, I mean, I've known David since I was 10 years old, and as I said before, I've said it many times throughout the tournament. I really think he is the friendliest person on the planet, so I'm going to have to be a little bit biased today. No, for enough. So Denis is using a weapon that some strong players use, but it's normally reserved for kind of situations where you just want to completely avoid any opening theory. I mean, maybe he knows as well. This is his moment. If he wins with Black, he has a chance. And there he is on our bottom camera. Yawning away. And okay, this has been used by Fabriano Caruana amongst others, push by five, so it can't be a bad move. It's quite rare though, and we see David well prepared with H3. A pair of knights come off the board, but after Ng5, Black's forced to retreat, and White does have the pawn center. So it looks like a kind of King's Indian now, except with a pair of knights off the board. David has also castled, and Denis is probably going to come back to the board momentarily. So what does Black, I guess Black still has a lot of options here, or does he play with c5 immediately, c5, e5? I think it's the kind of typical King's Indian dilemma. Do you play for c5, aiming for more Bernoni-type structures, or do you head for e5? You can also start with Nc6. So if White doesn't do too much, then you can play e5, and you might get this great square for the knights on d4. A very flexible position for Black. I would be tempted to start with e5 sooner or later, maybe prepared by h6, but I'm sure we'll see Denis make a quick decision here. Maybe after Nc6 he will be committed to e5, but either way, I slightly prefer White. Just a bit more space. Let's move on. Board 6, Mikhail Kobalyah has had a great turner and very solid turner. Is he actually on the... I don't know, he lost in round 3, but then after that made a big push, and today he's playing for an outside chance at the title of his big, big money prize, Likhok Kwanglyam. Yesterday he was interviewed by Tanya, so you can check that out on our YouTube channel. You'll find a lot of interviews. A video, did you see it? Of the quiz night as well from a couple of nights ago. Not our finest moment. So Likhoklyam, he lost quite a bad game against Fahab Sanal in round 6, but then he won 3 in a row, and he'll be looking to make it forward today. That's right, he's really caught fire in the last few rounds. He started off fantastically well, a bit of a dry spell in the middle, lots of draws and then this loss. Now he's fighting back in Kobalyah in the same jumper. Again, 10 days in a row I think. And we do see the Italian game, which Likhok Kwanglyam has played with both colours. He played against me back in the summer last year. A bit of a slow setup, but the game will burst into life a bit later on. That being said, White has just taken on E5. So it might not burst into life. The one thing I was going to say is that both of these players will struggle to get into a playoff, even if they win, because their performance ratings are so low they would need a specific set of results. A miracle. They would need a miracle. They would need everything to go in their favour. So even if they won, they would likely come 5th or 6th on performance rating in the tie and be eliminated. Do you think Mihail Kobalyah is happy to keep it safe? A draw will still guarantee a very decent chunk of money? Yeah, possibly. There are 15 prizes here. The top 15 prizes, between £30,000 and £1,000. He'll get something in between and maybe he'd be happy. But the game's not over. If we do see a capture on E5, White can still try. Normally White is a tiny, tiny bit better in these positions. But maybe he just wants to play without risk. Which makes sense. Yeah, and it's not great for Le Coinglien, unfortunately. Let's move on. On the next board, you pick for who you want to win the tournament. Actually, well, two Englishmen next up on board 7. First up, Mickey Adams against Kartikeyan. And board 8 will look at it in a short while. Gawain Jones against Jan Verler. That's right. And every game is so familiar at this point. Adam's did play the system against me in the London chess classic recently in one of our rapid games. So we did see the Berlin defence. Kartikeyan did come second here last year in Gibraltar. But he chooses a more solid approach today. Again, he's one whose performance rating just isn't high enough to hope for tournament victory, even if he wins. So he stays solid. And after Bishop takes C6, see a few more moves. And H3. Deciding whether to drop back with the Bishop for a safe square or whether to keep the PIN with Bishop H5. In that game against Adams, I kept the PIN. And Adams in the end played 94, 93, 95. And it was roughly level. But it's an Adams type of position. Slow and steady. Yeah, I think we're in for a long one here. Now in for the long hole, let's move on to Gawain Jones just across the alleyway. I keep calling it the alleyway. That's right. You know, the Caleta way. There we see Lawrence Trent. He needs a win today to reach the magical five and half. Unfortunately, I think he's not on the live board. But I'm sure we'll find out out of the way. By the way, my first big shout out, it won't be the last shout out to a fantastic team behind the scenes. That coffee will be very much needed today. They have been a joy to work with. And they have. They are the reason you are seeing this broadcast. Shout out to Hammons and our fantastic team here in Gibraltar. That's right. Hammons are the best. Yeah, we do see a Grunfeld. Another Grunfeld. Gawain has gone to this in recent years. He's moved away from his beloved Kings Indian.  Actually, we see the exact same line that Ivan Chaparinov had earlier. He won a very quick game against Gigaev. I have to say for me, Jan Verle is one of the main surprises of this tournament. I think at 25-45, he's one of the lowest-rated players in that group, if not the lowest-rated. Actually, now that I say that. It's either him or Ariane Chopra. No, it is him. Ariane Chopra has 17 points. Mighty 70 points. So he is the lowest-rated player on the group on six and a half. He's undefeated. And he has the highest performance out of the group on six and a half. Incredible. So if he wins, and if the top three boards are all drawn. Yeah, he has a chance. That's right. Well, I think he'll be in the playoffs. Well, if the top two boards are drawn at least, and if Maxime Vashilygrav doesn't lose, then Jan Verle, if he wins, will be up there. And I think we've said it for a lot of people, but here it's definitely true. I think for Jan Verle, I wouldn't go that far, but for Jan Verle, I would say for sure the biggest game of his life. He did win the EU championship in 2008. Was that in Liverpool? Yes, in Liverpool. And we're just going to have to make sure that we'll get the board back. Will for now stick to the camera view, or do you want to... Let's just look at the games on camera here for Jan Verle to start with. OK. Yeah, so this one is actually the exact same opening as the game that we saw earlier in the tournament with Ceparinov in that game. Ceparinov won very nicely. He's white, but he used to move Queen D2 rather than Rooksy won on the last turn. We see he's also having a coffee. Everyone is bracing their selves for a long day. Maybe now is a good time. We're just fixing, working on getting the boards back. Maybe now is a good time to talk everyone through what is going to happen today. We've done it a bit before, but let's remind everyone about what's at stake, who's in the run for a play of what's going to happen with the player, et cetera, et cetera. All the info. All the info. Let's get your notes. I'm going to try and do it off my heart rather than sit here just recalling and reading my notes. Actually, let me just put... I will plug my own treat, but with your notes because it's one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. So the link I'm about to put into the Twitch chat, that is the link to David's notes. Very impressive. Remember to follow me because I need more followers than Fiona by the end of this tournament. 2,000 less at the moment. You need a big final day, David. I'm hoping for a late surge. Yes. So first prize for the open tournament for everyone is 30,000 pounds. Second prize, 20,000 pounds, 15, 10. I mean, 15 big prizes. There are currently five leaders, but there's a group of 16 players. Only half a point behind them hoping to jump up into that leading group. And in case of a tie, we will have a playoff. The way it works is four players max for the playoff. So if there is more than four, if there's more than a four-way tie for first place, the four players with the highest rating performance will qualify. That's right. So it will be a huge shame for the players who tie for first if that happens and if they come fifth or sixth on performance. There's a few quirks of the system if they're three players tied for first. I read it up as well. If there's three, the highest performance gets seated into the final playoff. That's right. And the other two have to battle it out. What I couldn't find is the time control for the playoffs. Did you? No. I'll pretend I knew that one. No, but I think they're not out there, maybe. I heard someone saying it was 15 minutes plus 10 seconds and two games, white and black, and then immediately an Armageddon if it's drawn, at least in the semi-finals of that playoff. For the final, I'm not quite sure. We will get back to you on that one. And for the women's prices, so the women's price is the first place, is 20,000 pounds. Actually, maybe while we talk about this, maybe let's put back board one, either one or two, back on camera. So yeah, we'll stay with André Yesipenko for now while we talk you through it. By the way, in the chat, people are very impressed, David, with your notes. Stop it, guys. So for the women's prices, there will be no playoff, and they will also, in the overall and in the women's, the first prize is not shared. Everything else is, but not the first prize. Huge money and death or glory at the stage. Absolutely. And for the women, there will be no playoff, but if there is a tie, it will be decided on Heinz's performance, which I often find is the fairest criteria. I think it makes sense as well. There are some tie-break systems that you can't use because some players have taken buys, and performance rating is the fairest. It makes sense. It does favor maybe the lower-rated players, who, I mean, for example, if André Yesipenko draws this game against Wang Hao, he's a lot lower-rated, so it will help his rating performance, it will damage Wang Hao's rating performance, but it is the fairest overall. David, now let me put you on the spot. We see our top two boards there, side-by-side. What is your prediction for the two games? Draw on board one, unfortunately. Partly because I've seen this position before and I've seen it fizzle out. I've seen Peter Lekko defend this as black. On board two, there we see on the right-hand side. I think that's going to be decisive somehow. I'm not sure which way, but it's a very complex position. Early on, both players are going to go for it for sure. Yulmer, as we mentioned, has the lowest tiebreak of the leaders, so he needs to win, despite having black. Do you think... Did you actually predict something? No. Because I was just looking at your treat and then I was half-listening, and then I was like, did he actually predict something? I predicted a decisive result. I'm sitting on the fence, though. I'm not sure which way. Before the game, if I had to bet my life on it, I would have said a white win. Paravian might just be a big breakthrough event for him, but... David, I think let's actually go back two board two. I think the boards are back, because Mr. Erdo in the chat thinks that Yulmers might have missed this move, knight fg4, so let's bring back the board and see it. That's right. So the current position we do see there, just next to Fiona, queen d7 has been played to defend e6, and the question is, how about knight fg4 lost move? So knight fg4 would have been very ambitious, threatening this queen b6 check idea. That would be a nasty check. I mean, it looks quite good, to be honest. Very strange. I mean, this tournament, we've seen a few people, right? I think the most incredible of which was Josefina Verli against Dennis Cadridge, and he's really made the most of that gift by crushing Matlakoff the next day. But here it's very strange to see black discard a move like knight to g4 after only two minutes of thought. No, that's right. I mean, it's not an obvious move. It feels like you're moving another, you're moving a developed piece again, and you're not going to castle anytime soon, because now white's rook controls the f8 square. That being said, you're immediately asking white some questions. And it's clear the queen doesn't want to be on d7. Queens are very bad when they're passive, just defending pawns. So, queen d7 is the kind of move you play when, OK, you think, ah, nothing else. Yeah. Maybe he just didn't see it. Yeah. Phenomenon only thinks that knight fg4 wasn't that strong. I mean, it's definitely not winning. It's not as if queen d7 is a blunder. Queen d7 is a good move, but maybe knight fg4 would have asked some questions and put white on the back foot. Maybe white would need to lose time, for example, king h1, and now you need to defend against knight f2, so you have to play a move like either knight d1, which is ugly, or queen g3, moving another, this queen again. And yeah, not a huge miss, I think, but strange to play queen d7 so quickly. You're right. Shall we go back to finish our tour of the players on six and a half? Three boards to go. We're continuing with board nine. Fragnan and Da, who's had a fantastic event, and a tough last game he's playing against former European champion, Ivan Sarich, who at 26.55 he was for a long time, 27 plus player. That's right. And he will surely be a tough nut to crack. No, indeed, indeed. Yeah, former youth champion, former European champion, he's got the knack for the last rounds, Ivan Sarich. His nerves are extremely good. And we do see a bit of a, I think this one shows that both sides are going for it, a bit of a rare opening line, but one that's kind of in fashion when you have to go for a win, when you have to kind of throw your opponent off early on. So it was the retty opening, knight c6, allowing a chigorin, and bishop to f5. I had this myself recently at the European club cup as white, and my opponent played knight b4 there as well. It looks like a beginner kind of... Who was that against and how did the game end? That was against Ivan Ivanovich, I think Serbia's top player, and I managed to win as white, but I knew after many adventures maybe I had a tiny advantage with white out of the opening, but nothing special. The idea is obviously knight takes c2. White has to defend that, but although black loses time with this knight, white is stuck with a bad piece on a3, which has to be rerouted, and it's harder to play c4 now. If c4 ever, then, for example, in this position, then black will just chop on a3 and steal a pawn on c4, and black's doing very well. A greedy approach, but it works here. Yeah, especially if black can put the bishop on e4, kind of balancing out white's cat-land bishop on g2. So, queen b3, would be 8, knight h4, and it looks like, I mean, pregnant and must have at least seen this position before, because he's played quicker than he normally does in the opening. Normally he dies to take his time, and actually white has got e4 in, which I didn't manage to do in that game until about move 30. So, I was trying to get it in the whole game. Clearly pregnant and under is better prepared. We see pregnant and under thinking here. So, what are your options if you don't recapture the pawn? This question. I don't really have an answer. Maybe you could flick an h3. H3. H5. I'm not sure what this really changes. You can't play g4 now because this knight in h4 is hanging. Now you could take, but then knight f6 and it might be the same thing. Bishop f5 is another option for white, for black, but it feels like it's asking for some trouble. And now with pawn takes, then knight takes f5. I don't know what he's thinking about. Just take that pawn retreat. We'll come back to it. We'll leave him to it. Prague, we don't have time. We don't have time for these kind of things today. He likes the adrenaline of the time scramble. Let's check in with board 10. Daniel Ljufa against the Bs, Adiban. That's right. And these players, yeah, Adiban is making his late charge towards the top. Yeah, both players had had good events. Adiban, he's undefeated, another undefeated player on just plus two rating points, but any plus gain you will take. Daniel Ljufas had an excellent, an excellent event. He's gaining 21 points. Incredible. Let's check in with him. That's right. And Adiban did have a long game yesterday. I think they played over seven hours. And with this being a morning round, let's hope it doesn't affect him too much. But Adiban always strikes me as having unlimited energy reserves. I have never, never seen Adiban be either sad or tired or, you know, like Adiban always has this massive smile on his face. And that energy is contagious. And yeah. And like, I mean, we saw him, you know, at the quiz night. He was, our team had some friendly, our teams had some friendly events going on. He was making fun of us getting some very easy answers wrong. No, exactly. I think you're right. And it tells him his chess is always full of energy. And as we do see in this game, I mean, you have to be full of energy to play B6 in this position, allowing White to take the pawn center if he wants with E4. I like how White was like, no center for me. A3. There's a clear logic behind that move. I've played it myself. You stop Bb4, check, or any Bb4 pins later on. And after Bb7, Nc3, Bb4 is impossible. So Nf6 and D5. Yeah, Bd6 was played. As Black, I'm slightly surprised Adiban didn't play f5. This is maybe the more competitive approach. But instead, he simply develops and the bit odd, Black does have much less space, but it's impossible for White to play E4 at the moment. And I think Black's fine. He will, at some point, sooner or later play Rg8, capture on D5, or maybe play Bb6. Maybe he'll play A4 as well, clamped down on the White Queen side. Black's doing OK. Nothing special, and this game will liven up a bit later. David, let's skip 4-11. We'll come back to it in one second. Can we go to board 12? I've just spotted something from the corner of my eye, and I want to see. It is now almost the midday. OK. I want to test you. Oh, dear. I'm still waking up, Fiona. Because I was like, what is going on here? So... This position? No. Sorry. I got my board wrong. Sorry. Don't look at my screen. OK. I'm not looking, Fiona. Let's go to... Sorry. Board 17. Ah, OK. So it's quite a big jump. Board 17. And All-Indian clashed between Vibe have Suri and... Raunach said Wani. And Raunach said Wani. So I have spotted something here. Is it this move? No. You tricked me. You tricked me, Fiona. It's an even clash here. Maybe we can also people in the chat our phenomenon early. Don't look at the chat. Is it this move? Yeah, it's this move. I wanted to do it in the other order, but I think the other order didn't quite work. I wanted to play Bishop takes H6 with the idea of, if you take, then to play Qg6 check. And White will win just everything. But maybe after Bishop takes H6, there's this Bishop f5 idea. This must be what Santewani is preparing. But the other way round, if tactics don't work one way, switch the order. Yeah. Qg6. What a move that is. Yeah. It's taking advantage of the fact that the f-pawn is pinned so Black cannot take the queen. And you cannot unpin because f7 would be hanging. Yeah. The Bishop is attacked. The Bishop is attacked. Bishop takes H6. 6 is threatened. Is this winning for White? I think it's completely winning. We'll have to see if White finds it. But I think if he finds Qg6, it's game over here. Yeah. Actually, Santewani, a fantastic player. He played in the Isle of Man. He did so well. He's unbeaten for so long. And then he fell to an opening trap, I think, against one of the Indian players. I feel like I should have lost. One of the Egyptian players. Sorry. Against Ahmed Adli. No. Again. Oh, was it against? No, against Amin Bassem. Against Amin Bassem. Yeah. So, Santewani fell to an opening trap. He was lost after 10, 15 moves as Black. And it looks like here, after 13 moves he's lost again. And Vaipa Sui, he's had a great event. We've seen him on our top boards quite a bit. These players, so they are not in contention, you know, for tournament victory. But they are on 6 out of 9. And I'll keep an eye on it. We're not going to stick around. But I think if Vaipa Sui finds Queen G6, it is game over, unfortunately, for Raurina, who I'm a big fan of. Yeah. I mean, he's young. He's 14. He'll cut these kind of opening disasters out of his game as he gets a bit older, with experience. It's an easy move to miss Queen G6. No, no.  You tell me. Less than one minute on Queen A5. I mean, Queen A5 requires some calculation. Even if Queen G6 doesn't work, you have to calculate this Bishop H6 idea. It's a capture. It always happens in these systems. Okay, he sees maybe that Bishop F5 works and he plays it quickly and confidently, but he just didn't switch the order. Queen G6. Even Bishop H6 actually would give White quite a serious advantage. So, very strange to see Queen A5. Maybe he didn't smell the danger, but when you have two Bishops looking at your king, take some time and make sure you're safe. David, I will keep an eye on this one and let you know if White Puff plays Queen G6. Let's finish our tour just very quickly with board 11, even Cheparinov against Ariant Chopra, and then we'll come back to the top board and the top ladies. That's right. So, in this pairing, we do have an up-float for Ivan Cheparinov. He is on 6 out of 9, so even if he wins, he'll be unable to win the tournament, but it'll be a huge cash prize if he does win. On the other hand, for Ariant Chopra, it could be life-changing. Absolutely life-changing. He is one of the highest performing players actually on 6.5 out of 9. If he wins and if the top few boards are drawn, he'll get into that playoff most likely. So, we're already in an ending here. A lot of pieces have come off. And... And White is slightly better. Well, I was thinking, so Ivan has just castled. White has the bishop pair and he has two pawn islands versus three. Black also has the isolated pawn. So, I was thinking, oh, I would like White quite a bit, actually. Where does Black's compensation lie, if any? Yeah, I think Black has to try and get rid of... I mean, try and liquidate some of these pawn islands as quickly as possible. I would guess the move C4 is high on his list. If he can somehow, as Black, exchange off these pawns, suddenly the pawn structure is completely symmetrical. Maybe he can hold on here by exchanging off all the rooks and just hanging tight, staying solid. But it's going to be a long, long defense. The two bishops are going to really turn the screw a bit later on. If he doesn't play C4, then White, like you said, has a simple plan, ganging up on the C-pawn. And for Ivan Sheparino, who's had a very tough second half of the tournament, a last round win would at least be some consolation.  And he would still probably be in the prices very likely. He must have a great performance. Pick up a couple of thousand pounds, it'll be fine. Life goes on. A draw for Ivan Sheparino, though, and it will be minimal prize money. Actually, if any, I don't think any. You really need 7 out of 10 here. I found, from my own experience playing in Gibraltar, you need 7 out of 10 to make any kind of profit. But, yeah, he'll want to end on a high no matter what the price situation. So, David, let's go back to the very top. Let's quickly check in with Wang Hao and Yesi Panko. That's right. And not too many developments here. We left a position after C5, D-take C5, Rook C8, Knight B3, Bishop D5, all very standard stuff. And now Knight to E1, which I haven't seen before. Yesi Panko spent 20 minutes on that one. And Wang Hao spent a bit of time thinking about his reply. He took on B3, and now he's just considering how to take on C5. I think I would even be tempted to take with the Knight here as Black, sacrifice a pawn temporarily, and then just go for really active. I mean, I like the look of a move like Qd2, maybe Qd4, just attack the B2 pawn. I can't imagine White clinging on to this one much longer. We also have opposite-color Bishop, so at the very least, if everything gets exchanged, Black will have great drawing chances. I would take with the Knight purely because I don't want to allow White to knight to D3. I've seen many games of players like Ulf Andersen just win these Catalan positions. It looks completely equal, but this knight in D3 controls so many squares. It's just a monster on that square. Nice and safe, protected by this E2 pawn. So I would want to prevent that idea. I think Wang Hao is just having a think. The only issue with Knight to D5 is this is likely to fizzle out to a draw, and that might not be enough even for a playoff if one of the players wins on board 2 or 3. Well, for sure it won't be enough. Yeah, it won't be enough if someone wins on board 2. Oh, yeah, we keep a close eye on it. We're joined in the chat by Devan Patel with one last set of H-perfects. David, are you ready? Thank you, Devan. I'm ready. Hit me with them. So, so, so far, 38.8% of games have seen White play H4, so that's 397 games out of 1024. Five of those times with Jack. One of those games was Jones Gukesh. That's true. I remember. The H-perfect has promoted twice. That's not very much. No, I'm surprised. No, very little. And White has scored 56% when H4 has been played. Those are some great stats. Devan, thank you so very much. It's been a pleasure reading all your stats. A big shout out already to all of you who've been watching us for the past 10 days. Kruna is saying that he has the most relaxing work day ever. Chess and tennis on both screens. Let's hope your boss doesn't catch you. Living the dream? But it does sound like quite a dream setup. That's right.  I think the moral of the story is just play H4 in any position. Just hurrying the H-perfect. 56% chance of winning. It's not too bad. Go, Harry. David, let's go back to board two. Kruna is safe. Everyone's out for the conference. Good stuff. He can feel free to keep us updated with the tennis as he goes along. Big day today. I'm not interested anymore that Nadal is out. It's the greatest players of all time playing today. Federer and Djokovic. Big chess fan, he played many pictures of him with Boris Becker. Boris Becker, who actually opened one of the rounds this year at the Grand Chess Tour tournament in Zagreb. That's right. If it's good enough for some of the best tennis players in the world, then it's good enough for us. Where were some of the guys, though, who played with something wrong on their board on one of the pictures? The Grand Corner might have been a dark square. It's actually shocking. I find even in movies, even when they don't have a clue, they seem to somehow always get it wrong. I mean, there's a 50% chance, right? I always think it's a 50-50 chance.  Anyway, nothing about that. I recently discovered an amazing Twitter account. I think it's called the Chess Police or something. And they always get alerted. People tag them. They go around tweeting like fines, like Twitter fines, and people who get it wrong set up wrong this or that, and they always, like, you can donate your fine to your local chess club, and they point out who the local chess club is. Great account. Actually, I must admit, I think I've seen one feature where chess, I mean, the chess board was actually set up correctly out of all the movies, all adverts, all TV shows, just everything. They should hire us. I mean, we're open to offers. Very low offers would still take them. Actually, it's not like, sometimes they do get it right. For example, in France, there was a movie about chess. It came out maybe two or three years ago, and one of our players in the tournament had the main role in that tournament in that movie. The movie was called Le Tournois. Fabian Libisiewski, he was playing here in Japan. He had the main role there. Did MVL make a cameo? And MVL made a cameo, absolutely. Let's get to the game. Final note, I knew once of a movie that had a chess advisor, a professional player, but they still got it wrong in the movie. Who was that? I can't name names. I feel too guilty. Anyway, so yes, should we move on? Let's move on. Sorry, guys. Not too much has changed here. We've seen one more move after Qd7. White spent a bit of time before Bb3, castles and Bd4. Just putting pressure on e5, but I'm not sure that that pawn will be taken yet. For example, if Black plays b5, if White ever takes, then suddenly this knight on c3 is not great either, and Black's bishop becomes active. Just a posturing move. It just wants to put the bishop on a slightly better square. I wouldn't be surprised to see Black play b5 here. To be honest, it looks very active. It controls the c4 square. I don't want to allow White's bishop to ever get to c4. If Black wants to be super safe, super solid, he can maybe take on d3, but I quite like keeping that kind of, yeah, keeping that strong knight, and White's bishop isn't too impressive at the moment, so b5 or maybe rook ac8 would be my choice. I guess Knight's c4 now will be just be met by bishop e2. Very tense, and I expect to see actually a lot of time consumption over the next 5-6 moves from both players as the nerves start to kick in. Dejan has just come home from school, and he's asking if he's missed anything. We have looked at that this once so far, but we will come back to it. It's going to have him as high up as board 5 for the final round, and Dejan must be very happy. Let's check in with board 3, MVL and Max Zulu. This one's changed a lot since we left. Max Zulu is half a point ahead of MVL, so MVL is in a must win situation. I saw him in the lobby yesterday, we were chatting. He was actually working out the mats, how his performance might improve if he wins, and he was hoping to play anyone other than Yilmaz of the top group. He said he needed a nut float, he needed to win, so he could knock one of them out of the top. He will be trying to do just that with Max Zulu, but Max Zulu is also taking no prisoners with Cg5 has just appeared on the board. Let's go back and see how we got here. We left after Bx5, a very theoretical position. Qb3. This has all been played before. I sat next to the game Mamajorov against Carlsson at the European Club Cup in 2018, and it went straight down this line. Bx4 though, it's a bit of a different one. I think several options now for both sides, but Nx4 giving up a pawn, temporarily, and black is a pawn down, Cg5, slightly surprising. I thought he might gain this pawn back somehow, but no, not yet. I think the idea is up. We do see Parham shaking his head there though. Bx3 has been played. I thought somehow he managed to get root to C2 quickly, or odd, odd. This is quite a big development if this is just a pawn with no... Black needs something quick now. I think we've both lost for words. I think this is the most silent we've been in the last 10 days. We're both trying to understand what happened. Let's go back a few moves. That pawn gets lost exactly. So I played Bf4. I think H6 is not supposed to be that great. I think Nbd7 is a bit... H6 was played immediately within 20 seconds. I'm trying to recall. I mean, usually black flicks in H6 a bit earlier, but Nbd7 now would have been my choice. Just a bit more flexible. You could often play C5. And you're ready to defend or move to C4 if Bf4 later. Black played Nxb4. Black played Nxb4 after 5 minutes. I'm so confused. Why would you not defend this pawn? If in doubt, you should at least move it or defend it. Nxb4. There are very similar ideas in the Nimzo all over the place where you can sacrifice C7 and get quick development. But maybe he's confused something. It does look like white is organised. Because it looks like one idea maybe was based on Nb4 and trying to get it. I mean, he could try Nb4 now. Black could try G4 maybe. But then the knight on the rim isn't great. Nxb5 would allow black to jump into the C2 square. At least black has some activity for the pawn. But white still has the two bishops, so at the very least white would be a bit better. My best guess is that Parham has maybe mixed something up. He hasn't played quickly, but he's played relatively fast for such a big decision. Maybe too fast? Maybe too fast. David, let's check it back with the sole leader for the women's prize, Tan Zhongyi, and then we'll take a very short break. That's right. So she's on board 19 and she's white against Maxime Lagarde. I think, again, no offence to Maxime Lagarde, but I think it's quite a good pairing for her. She's a very strong red master, 26-50, but he can be very irregular. He can be pretty much anyone, but he can also have a complete after yesterday Tan Zhongyi's compatriot and also competitor for the women's prize, Leiting, that had him against the ropes. He was lucky to escape with the draw. But I think it's quite a nice pairing also because he had that very long game as well. I don't know if that's right. I mean, there would have been harder pairings on paper at least, but that being said, Maxime can be anyone on this day and it looks like he's trying to do just that. We checked in on this one much earlier. I don't think we saw that many opening moves. We do see the Vienna on the board and this B5 move, which has become quite trendy in the last few years. The idea is if white takes that pawn so white instead plays E5 and then takes the pawn, but after the knight B6, black is arguing that white has committed in the center. This D5 is a nice outpost. C4 is not so easy to win for white and black has a nice development so Bb2, B3, okay. I mean, there's many moves here. White can play ideas such as A4 a bit earlier on. There's also the idea of playing Qd2 to F4 to G3 and trying to attack on the king side when black castles instead white plays and maybe a more solid approach. It does look like perhaps Tanzongi was slightly surprised.  A few moves later, current position, white is having a think and I don't really like the way she's set up to be nice. This queen doesn't make much sense on C1 anymore unless it can somehow jump out to G5 later.  I'm just trying to think of plans for white. Checkmate. I was actually funny enough I wasn't looking at that for the knight H4 and I thought maybe to try and bring my bishop to F3 but I don't like that I give up the defense of d4. I was thinking, can I maybe get enough time to play F4 or F5? Possibly, possibly. I would be thinking about similar things. I was actually thinking, this is how you want to go forward. I always want to go back because I'm so negative. Oh, by the way, after 17 minutes of thought, Vaipap Suri did not play Qg6 but he did take on H6 which is strong but not quite as crushing. Just bizarre stuff from Ranax at Wani there. He's young but he's relatively experienced and a very strong player just to miss some simple tactics. This one that we have on Kamuel Tanjongyi, she's the defending women's champ and she's the sole leader will come back to her game former women's world champion absolutely will come back to her game and all the remaining action and all of it, all of it is still ongoing, don't go anywhere we'll be back in just 5-10 minutes. See you soon. Or not. And welcome to Gibraltar home to the biggest chess festival in the world. We're at the Kalata Hotel where all the magic happens. The morning events and the Gibraltar Masters. Master classes simultaneous displays and seminars by the best in the world. Blitz events for some fast and furious chess and of course our most awaited evening the battle of the sexes. The action never stops and we want you with us. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and on social media. See you there. Hello and welcome back to the 10th and final round here at Gibraltar. David. Yes, Fiona. Things are heating up. They are heating up. We're now into the second hour of play. Yes. We're halfway into the second hour of play and we still haven't seen any results up there on the top few boards yet which is a good sign. We're going to see times of grambles. We're going to see nerves. And potentially a playoff at the end of the day. And potentially a playoff possibly. It does look like we're edging nearer there. Maybe we can check back in on board one. Let's go back to board one. So, Andre Yassi Penko who yesterday suffered a heart-breaking draw. Yes. Heart-breaking even draws can be can be painful. He had a power hem maxidlou beat. And then it slipped out of his hand at the last possible moment. Today against Wang Hao a solid approach. You think this one might fizzle out? I think very shortly as well. We have seen a few developments. We left it after Queen takes B3. I was kind of an advocate of Knight takes C5 which was played. And Queen B6 was also played. So, Black has sacrificed a pawn. And more importantly, B2 is hard to defend. I can guarantee you almost a draw at this point on Wang Hao. We had a couple more moves. Just for C1. Yeah, just for C1. If White had defended this B pawn with B1 and I think Black could simply play D8 and if you compare the activity of the pieces Black's rook's coming to D2 the Knight's coming to A4 I think it's at least equal for Black now despite his lack of a pawn. So instead, Espenko just gave back that pawn and we see Wang Hao shaking his head. He's not happy. He knows that his fate will no longer be in his hands. After Bishop takes B2 I expect to move maybe rook B1 but rook C2, bishop retreats and Knight f3. Yeah, it's just completely equal material. Opposite color bishops, everything's equal and a draw is likely. So let's remind everyone in case this one ends in a draw as you just mentioned it will be out of his hands. In that case, David Paravian and Mustafa Yilmaz on board 2 they are both on 7. In case of a win they will overtake him but there's still one final player on 7 points and that's Parahemak Zulu who's playing Black against MVL we'll come back to that in a second we saw him lose a pawn we're still not quite sure if that was part of the plan or not let's first go to board to Paravian against Mustafa. That's right it's hard enough keeping an eye on one other board when you know that will affect your destiny but keeping an eye on another board as well is hard enough many, many years ago I think 12 years ago now when I played in the final round of the World Junior Championship I was joint leading with two others I was leading on tie break and I didn't know, do I play for a win or a draw and it turns out often you just have to focus on your own game you can't worry too much about the others okay, if you play your best if it does turn out to be a draw you try everything if they win, you know, you can't do anything about it so I'm sure White House experienced enough to just play the game, play the position but for these guys it's going to be hard to fully focus yeah, we've had one request in the chat for Captain Barvosa he's down on board 24 maybe a bit later if we get an off maybe a bit of time off from the top boards we will check in he's playing against Mr. Bolsheet he's looking promising for Barvosa but I'm not sure we'll see if the top boards have a take a time out if there's a lull we might but for now we'll focus on the top boards and also the top ladies that's right, so many prizes at stake unfortunately for Barvosa and Basso, I think prize is unlikely at this point although maybe rating bands there are a couple of thousand pounds I think at stake for rating bands especially for Basso but he might just because he's 26 oh I don't know where did the there might be one until 2600 I think it's up to 2549 if I remember then okay, he's out I think he might be out maybe you can check that as we go along I mean huge amount of money at stake there's also the best game prize which we will be judging later on there are senior prizes for over 60 year olds actually we could even check in on that maybe later I think the leading players for that will be Beliavsky maybe who else let's go to board 2 I will tell you all about it in just one second that's right, so Rook 88 was played when we last left the position and White played Rook 81 Black just retreated the Queen as I explained a bit earlier keeping an eye on the C4 square White is unable to play Bishop C4 Black is very solid it may be easier to improve the position as Black but White has no weaknesses at the moment I guess this is around equal not too much action going on not too much to calculate which is good for us at least so David, there is one more prize there is one more prize the rating band goes all the way there's one for 2550 to 2649 which is quite the high rating band and Basel had a good tournament so with a win he could potentially Captain Barbosa is in the middle of that rating band so I don't know if he's a favorite for that one probably not but yeah there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 7 different rating prices so a lot to play for there as well of course as you mentioned 15 prizes for the overall standing and also 15 prizes for women that's right a senior 2 senior prizes if I understand this correctly 2 junior prizes so over 60 for the seniors and under 18 for the juniors I think no player can win they've changed the rules so no player can win more than one prize now I remember one year where I was playing who you found in the last round if she'd beaten me she would have come joint first she would have got first prize or second prize for the men and she would have won the top women's prize she would have gone home with an absolute fortune I mean she did go home with an absolute fortune in the end but they have changed that this year I think and I think Grassman Deschan is right that Dennis Kaddrich for sure is a big favorite for one of those rating prizes but let's check in with board 2 for now the players can't worry too much about that so many other games will affect their results often they want some of their rivals to do well so their rivals get one of the main prizes and leave the rating prizes for them but yes board 2 around equal I would say I think white will be maybe making a slow move King H1 maybe A4 just asking black what he's doing next it's kind of it's all in the balance it's not clear what the plans are for either side at the moment maybe Bishop E2 as well just to preserve the bishop yeah we'll come back to this one I was also I was just looking at the clock times to see but they have already they already on move 16 still no pressure on the clock but you know in one, two hours from now we'll see it's going to get spicy let's move on to board 3 and see if Parham found any counter player compensation for the pawn he lost on C7 I think he did find a move that we maybe underestimated we left it after Bishop G3 and we thought maybe black's struggling a bit but H5 is a very important move aiming to trap this bishop with H4 Maxime played H3 which I mean isn't ideal usually you want to play H4 and force the issue on the king side but G4 would have been very annoying 4 white so H3 instead and Knight to E7 I think no I was just thinking because our cameras which have been so great effort MPL is so so bright but actually that's why usually we start at 3 p.m. today we start at 11 p.m. so I guess the sun is shining bright onto MPL it's been a beautiful day here in Gibraltar for the last few days now that's another reason to wear white when you have the white pieces you blind your opponents that's maybe that's why Maxime had to leave the board he was just I see someone dressed very sharply, who is that is that is he? Noel Stude that's Noel Stude yes you know that you've commentated too much on the tournament when you can recognize player by the suits by the jackets and that's pregnant and on the left yeah so let's see this one yeah so after H3 black played 97 which I'm actually a bit shocked by I thought Knight before was the idea you mentioned this earlier forward not backward exactly jumping into C2 so I mean if white doesn't do too much of white plays and move like A3 black can jump into C2 attacking this rook attacking the pawn on E3 as well 97 feels like it's the wrong direction somehow I would have also been tempted to just force this bishop to take me because I can often jump to B6 or jump to C2 and I think no matter what white does now rook C1 black will take control of the C file and that's a very important file the only open file on the board so Knight E7 is slightly strange final shout out to another very sharply dressed player Volodarmorzin from Russia with the chess belt on the right hand corner of our camera and he was sporting his Russia at top for the first I think 8-9 days but yesterday and today looking very sharp at such a young age Star of the future 13 year old Volodarmorzin so do we think after the last couple of moves especially this Knight E7 move not going the direction that we wanted and Vial by the way that they rook Fc1 I mean this is why I want the Knight on B4 if Knight B4 if rook Fc1 then just Knight C2 B1 I mean white's walking into some nasty stuff so very strange Knight E7 it looks like the kind of move you play when you're not very confident and Parham doesn't look too happy I think we leave him to ponder it something feels like it has gone slightly wrong he goes a pawn down so we'll have to see if he can come up with anything good here I mean he needs compensation now if he lets it drag on two moves if I can consolidate then I think Vial will just win with the extra pawn so Maizulu needs a plan 97 not good though quick look at boards 4 and 5 we see David Navara Sharda David at the top right corner we'll get to his game in the second Veselin Topalov on the black side against Bogdan Derch wow lots of moves here we'll move 17 and this has changed enormously so we left it after F3 I'll move 12 Black just played Queen E7 maybe C5 was less attractive because of this Knight A2 move that I mentioned earlier Queen E7 E4 and white has got the center white's got everything it looks like white is very close to two bishops if white's got one move to bring the rook to the center then white's doing very well so Veselin played H6 which is not a move you want to be playing weakening your king it's a move we've got to figure out as well oh wait the pawn is not the pawn the pawn's not defended I thought I wouldn't want a weak knight king like that I mean this is a calculation but he didn't take so if white takes let's figure this one out it must be knight to E5 it must be but knight to E5 I mean there's something hanging here chat a light or not no no no I'm going to figure this out for you chatting is cheating let's figure this one out if bishop takes H6 it looks like a pawn what could be happening here unless black's just sacrificing the exchange but surely not surely not I mean it's not just exchange like you're not even winning it I mean yeah 95 if white takes on F8 attacking black's queen if black takes I mean queen E2 looks like it still defends this bishop on C4 white wouldn't take on E5 because of rook takes D3 and the queen falls but queen E2 rook takes D4 I mean it's still sharp but somehow this feels good for white queen takes F8 though yeah I mean super sharp stuff and actually maybe vintage Topalov yeah he does love an exchange sacrifice that's one thing about Topalov so maybe H6 would have led some complications after knight E5 or knight C5 David I cannot believe this after H6 H4 immediately played in 27 seconds I mean I would spend like 45 minutes there I would spend at least 45 minutes and still not know what's going on but these guys know everything clearly and could this all be a problem I have a feeling it might be I have a feeling I mean they spend a bit of time earlier on but maybe they're just considering which variation to go for Topalov has played I've seen him play some decent games against the slav less on the black side but yeah incredible stuff G5 I'm going to do my research on this one later I'm going to learn some theory bishop F2 the bishop retreats but black has weakened himself look at this king so open now if a queen could end up on G6 bishop takes C3 queen takes I mean they're playing relatively quickly although G5 was happened after 20 minutes so current position after F8 C4 it looks like white is having a think how to justify that pawn sacrifice rook A1 surely surely just a rook to the center and hope that these two bishops will be able to get a black's weakened king later on I mean that this one is a mess and black is playing very provocatively which he needs to do Sandrafrik was just making that same point in the chat that Topalov has to take some risks these guys the whole group on on 6.5 they are all in a must win situation for any chance even for the big prices a draw will get some price most likely but if you want the glory the money they have to go all out I mean at the moment these guys are 16 of them out of 9 if they all draw more players will join them I mean I say only there's a lot of prices there's 15 prices but for example if they share 6th place or 5th place till place number 30 I mean that will be diluted and that will be far less money I mean it's worth going all in I liked the look of this for white but as pointed out again by Sandrafrik a pawn is a pawn so that's right a pawn is a pawn I suggest that we leave there to figure it out we'll come back to this when this one is going to be one of the most exciting games of the round I feel let's check in with the board next to them David Navarra and Dennis Cadridge so one of the fan favourites well actually they are both fan favourites and the hoodie has come off a super smart David Navarra against Dennis Cadridge the Superbold the Enigma himself so this one has changed a fair amount it turns out actually I was correct Black did play this move E5 I mean Black has to fight for space seems a simplistic thing but you can't allow your opponent to just push and manoeuvre behind that extra space in the centre so D5 and A5 Navarra decided to play C5 here which looks like a pawn sacrifice white wants to get traditionally in these openings with white just playing the queen side because your central pawns do point towards the side of the board and C5 is a good way to open up lines but here it is indeed a sacrifice now if Bishop takes pawn Queen takes knight and white would be I think almost lost these two pieces will definitely be superior to white's one rook a bit later on in the game so white would be down in material so instead just Queen D2 accepting being a pawn down and ambitious by white extremely ambitious David Navarra is another player who has to take some risks today for the win but of course risk always involves risk you might get punished exactly but also more more more tears more potential tears taking risks can backfire your opponent can counter attack and I think actually I kind of like it's not a bad pairing for someone like Dennis Cadridge who is extremely tricky who seems to be extremely confident to be on the black side against someone like David who is pretty much in a must win situation is not a bad pairing at all because you can sort of sit and if he presses too much then you get your chance to counter exactly he's already taken the pawn he's a pawn up he's got something to hold on to now and white is the one who has to justify that sacrifice white is the one who has to keep pedaling in order to not fall off his bike yeah I mean I think he's going to go F5 I just have a feeling just to try and attack I mean it's what we want to see as well but as you say for Cadridge he's still super solid, a pawn up and if he can hold off he has an hour on the clock as well no risk, no fun that's for us here I mean that's true we have all the fun we can sack all the risks okay David let's go back to the ladies let's check in first of all of course with our leader in the women's standings Tan Zhongyi from China and she's white against Maxime Lagarde on board 19 we've seen a few moves being played in this game after Bishop to B4 you were saying Knight H4 which looks like a decent idea because I'm a negative pessimistic kind of guy I thought the idea of Knight E1 instead she found Knight B1 another backward move which I didn't even consider backward knight moves are the hardest ones to see in chess they're the least instinctive moves and indeed I really have contemplated that one but okay white wants to get a pair of bishops off white felt she was being slightly cramped here the Queen of C1 especially lack space black is nice and active so why not exchange a pair of pieces Knight B1 the bishops did come off the board Knight D2 attacking C4 and black reacted with Knight D3 looks like we've got a couple more moves though Queen C3 attacking this Knight on A5 and Queen to B6 somehow I'm starting to like white I mean white can snap off this pawn at any moment why don't we snap it off now yep I have to take you white's one upon can I consider taking on D3 instead or no I missed that one but I don't think with the bishop I don't know maybe yeah I mean now if black takes on F3 we don't take that one back we take on C4 I mean is black really going to take on B2 surely not okay what could be one and what do you do nah I mean you're just and take and take on B7 well it's just winning so maybe why not Knight AC4 I mean I was also tempted by ideas such as B4 just because it's counter-intuitive and if you take on B4 I will try and do something nasty on this B file I think it's I agree with you I like it for white a lot but there is so much at stake so I think it's normal that we see her take some time I don't think any woman player has ever defended her title here or have they I don't think so we can check that one I should have done it on my stats to win 20k two years in a row and if she wins that game she is one of the players who does not need to concern herself with any other game if she wins her game she will be the winner of the women's prize I think she's the only one who can say that in the whole tournament other than maybe Espenko who if he wins will win oh no still possibly a playoff he'll be the highest performer no you're right Tan Song Yi she's the only one 20,000 pounds do you think she'd lend me a fiver after that if she wins in quick research nobody has ever actually won the women's prize in 2004 and in 2005 she shared but it's good but not quite as good as Tan Song Yi outright winning if she wins it here I mean she's an extremely strong player she managed to win this knockout the 64 player knockout a few years ago I think in 2017 the women's world championship kind of high pressure tournament like that then open tournaments are a doddle in comparison so we like her chances after Quincy 3 she's oil for choice she can also take on D3 she can maybe play this B4 move take on C4 lots to think about we'll check back in on her later but looks like she's done well the last few moves we were just talking about this thing about looking around how the others are doing and it's an interesting question in the chat by Dutch Courage will that change the tactics of all the other contenders mid-match I'm not sure it will change that much maybe slightly I think ever so slightly maybe a bit more risk-taking but still the problem is that it's not just first place but all the money and if you lose you snooze the first prize of £30,000 won't be shared anyway so actually if there is just one winner in the end I mean it doesn't change that much to share the rest of the prizes that's very true I think everyone wants to win at this point they're all professional players I mean I've been there their living does depend on picking up prize money at big tournaments so yeah I mean they will all be going for it on the top dozen or so boards David actually let's just before we go to the other women players quickly come back to board 3 the MVL game there has been a change in the structure and dynamics so board 3 we left it after rook fc1 black decided it was time to get rid of white's bishop pair and a few exchanges and knight to d2 white's just a pawn up it looks like I mean it's not the best pawn in the world these double g pawns don't make a great impression but I think it's a pawn for now and that pawn counts later on you could definitely imagine white's knight maybe getting to the outpost on f4 beautiful square white's bishop is long term going to be a bad one it is going to be tied down to these pawns on it's same colour on the light squares yeah I think it's going to be two result game white is playing for the win and no losing chances I'm getting all excited I just spotted a game I wanted to come back to the ladies let's go to board 22 because I like what I'm seeing I don't understand it but I like it okay board 22 leitinger against Vasiv de Ravalli board there we go and yeah we predicted crazy stuff on this board and it looks like we're getting our wish we are getting our little wish let's bring it up this is just showing the strategy of all the players in the chasing pack for the women they're all going for it they all have the white pieces those players half a point behind Tanzang Yi let's rewind a bit to understand how we got here yeah so we left it a long long time ago after bishop e2 rook g8 was played which I'm not so familiar with usually black plays bishop b7 bishop g7 lots of other moves rook g8 that was met by e5 and knight h5 a4 I mean I'm not sure what this rook is doing on g8 it normally wants to land there only if white plays h4 but white hasn't played that and queen b6 a few more moves d5 blowing over in the position quickly she does this and knight d4 another well it's not really a pawn sacrifice this time white can now take on b5 maybe even e6 first check and black's king is not so happy but a6 and crazy our black has just captured but I mean this allows a big check yeah I would I mean if it was a blitz game I would play it without without thinking if it's a blitz game I would be terrified I was going to say something a bit rude there I would be terrified just because look at that king I mean black's king has to just is it going to step forward into the danger zone does it want to sneak over to the queen side looks so dangerous so dangerous black has the bishop pair and an extra pawn but actually king d8 go lating jay my pick for the tournament and actually lating jay what's her waiting performance her performance is 2544 Tan Song Yi's is 2548 that's insane so if she wins and Tan Song Yi draws I think lating jay will overtake her that's right because she'll gain more points by winning than lating jay will by drawing and we're hearing Thea saying that after king d8 bishop f7 actually looks deadly that is very true yeah so king e7 is forced that looks dangerous I mean she will play bishop h5 surely yeah I mean if black gets time to castle queen side I think it's more likely she's figuring out what am I going to do after king e7 I'll keep a very very close eye on this one let's check in on the board right next to them on board 23 actually sitting right next to lating jay is Shanzayah Abdul Malik who's also in contention and she's playing against Alan Pichot that's right your pronunciation of Pichot is getting even more perfect I'm rolling with it until I get told otherwise so this one we did see Pichot following Kramnik's no castling chess he kind of castled by hand he used his king he went to e8 from e8 to f7 yesterday he never castled and he went all the way up to e7 yesterday he went on a king walk that's something a bit a king marathon maybe it's just forgotten the rules of chess we left this not that long ago the king was just going to h7 a few more moves I think white's just trying to get organized with her knights whoops let's get rid of my king arrows and black's played a5 so David you like the bishop pair I like to look on that knight on f5 yeah I mean this bishop pair is so impressive because the center is mostly blocked and this bishop on f8 is passive black's last move does sacrifice a pawn white could take it but I think that bishop would get locked in by b4 and might not get out again I think that's why a lamb spent 22 minutes on a5 because you have to make sure before you give up a pawn like that white cannot just take it actually as white I would be ignoring that pawn for sure I would want to gang up on black's d6 pawn now it looks a bit backwards and maybe a move like rook ad1 or rook ad1 I'm not sure where the a1 rook wants to be rook ad1 move this bishop and then start ganging up on this d6 pawn which would be a vulnerable target I mean I quite like white's position it's very flexible that being said long term black does have a nice structure and the bishop pair I was just going to say let's look over all the positions of the women players quick look at the final one who's still in contention Nino Batziashvili also with the white pieces on board 29 and she's playing against Vahab Sanal that's right let me just pull that game up there we go so Nino I think out of the remaining leading players actually her performance is very good as well 25-58 so if she wins and Tanzong Yi draws that's a great chance to overtake her her opponent is slightly lower rated than the other two ladies opponents but I mean you can get your calculators out at home a win here will be huge even if it's not for the first place like a win for any of these four women players whose games we just looked at will guarantee a huge huge payday that's right great angle there I mean 20,000 pounds first prize 10,000 pounds second prize I mean neither of them too shabby and a win today would be massive and at first sight I love that look of that rook on b6 the look of the rook tying down black's pieces keeping an eye on a6 well attacking a6 keeping an eye on d6 I love this I really like it as well I think black needs something desperate here some tactics passive as well there's no real weaknesses in white's position maybe g2 is only defended by the king but I can't see how to get at it for black you know I actually I was just thinking all our four women so I was so leader Tanjongri but also the three players who are chasing her one of them has already drawn her game let's remind everyone Lela Yabakishvili made a quick draw against Sebastian Masi with the black pieces which on paper is a good result but the four players who are still in contention for the women's prize they all have so much experience but they also I find all have nerves of steel I would not like to be any of those men facing them today me neither me neither I've been on the wrong side of some of these women in the past I mean very strong players nerves of steel as you say you need those nerves of steel to get to the top David let's come back to this one we love the look of it let's go back to Lei Tingxiu I know we've just come from there bursting into life let's go back to board 22 my pick and I'm loving the way she's playing today I'm so excited I just closed that game Fiona let's bring it right back up and never close it again David if you insist Knight takes E6 wow bang we didn't that was not on our radar we saw a check they say Patsas see a check we're like what is she thinking about Knight E6 it's a peace sacrifice Black has to take it I would love to when we get the camera to see the look on Vasif's face I mean he's just going to be shocked either way I need to compose myself I'm trying to figure out what's happening here Vasif we just saw him there with a shake of the head he looks quite red maybe it's the sun we have to figure out if it works for now it's just a peace sacrifice but if this works this move which was not on our radar at all it could just be a miniature we're still only on move 18 we haven't decided the best game of the tournament yet either so maybe she knows this maybe she's going all out okay so what's the idea Bishop G4 I'm wondering whether throwing in a check would have worked we could have had the same position with the king in E7 I'm not sure that changes anything we'll try and figure that out but Bishop G4 looks logical attacking the queen which has to defend what has to move and defend this knight on D7 first move I would think about is Queen C6 with a sneaky threat with XG2 would be a checkmate so now White needs something big apparently yeah it's just saying E6 might also be a big threat I don't know if in that I mean definitely not in this position because E6 would fail to a checkmate that's true I saw that one coming Fiona Bishop F3 I guess would be the idea just because you need to gain time again it's hard to know when to throw in a check or not Bishop F3 I would be tempted to throw in a check in most lines because the last thing I want is that king escaping to C8 yeah this is true this is true and not only would the king escape but the rook would land on the 8 knight looking at my queen you're right actually you're very right here if the king goes to D8 for example at the very least we can play Bishop F3 when the queen moves there might be better but we can take and we can go E6 we win our piece back Black's king will be forever open and White will all the cost of a pawn huge attack if the king goes to E7 Bishop F3 looks huge he's fiddling that pawn very nervously actually the directors of the Avengers Age of Ultron movie years ago should have checked this out this footage because there was this character one of the superheros Vision twiddling with a rook but it was the slowest twiddling I've ever seen and like the most awkward mechanical twiddling and I mean he could have picked up something from D'Rabali and also Gelfand who twiddles his pieces and Anish Giri as well it shows nerves normally but some players it's part of the routine here I mean White can win back the piece in several ways I mean even Queen D6 check I mean I'd be tempted to throw it actually 95, check this out the rooks are forked but Bishop G7 maybe so Bishop G7 that wouldn't be quite enough we can pick up the rook on A8 I mean I still quite like White's chances but not so clear you say that I'm about to swap the queens off Fiona I'm about to go here swap the queens and just take on B7 and your whole queenside is falling because if rook A7 now I will even take on B5, check and pick up your rook and if you move to any other square I will take on A6 and everything's falling for Black White's actually equal material now and about to go up in material with a continuing attack incredible what a game but I think you deserve a big prize if you play a game like this absolutely and she will absolutely if this works she's absolutely in contention for the best game prize which we still have to talk about later on we're gonna go through all 1200 plus games all of them David I'll keep a very close eye on this one so if anything happens we'll come right back to it for now let's go back to the top boards we're out with board 1 Andrea Sipenko and Wang Hao yes let's do it this one see Wang Hao just walking away there yeah he's seen enough he knows what's happening in this position we've seen a few moves since we left we left it after rook c1 bishop takes b2, rook went to b1 and knight a4 knight d3 and couple more moves bishop went back to f6 can't believe try to figure this out we haven't had the live moves bishop f6, rook to b4 attacking the knight bishop b3, defending the e2 pawn and b5 for black yeah it looks very tense suddenly I prefer black actually just very slightly because black is attacking a2 that knight on c3 is so strong David we cannot see the clock times for now but I see them here Andrea Sipenko is down to 26 minutes yesterday his downfall oh and we see a result there in the background that's Cheper Winoff's game and that has ended in a draw yes Ariane Chopra will not be joining the potential massive pile up on 7.5 he's had a fantastic tournament he's gaining over 20 rating points undefeated 7 out of 10 massive congratulations to Ariane Chopra who's had a brilliant tournament he's still only 18, what a player fantastic if he can beat Alex Astana Lopez he can beat anyone fantastic tournament for the youngster especially with black holding a play like Cheper Winoff it's amazing absolutely so that means we're now down to 10 games we have to focus on only 10 games easy peasy it's going to get even more exciting on the remaining 10 boards so you think in board 1 still in the balance you're starting to I was just saying that Andrea needs to keep a close eye on his clock because yesterday it was the reason he didn't win the game nerves and clock handling so that's one thing to watch out for position should still be equal but you know little by little and Wang Hao will sense these things and he will try to make the most of it just one night on C3 is controlling everything in a moment and if anyone's for choice Wang Hao is and he knows that and he thrives in these kind of situations these kind of positions so absolutely David we've just had a a bombshell move on board 2 after 20 minutes over 20 minutes David Paoavian has sent his knight into the battlefield on to D5 yes that's right it isn't a sacrifice because black cannot take this knight his queen is undefended on C8 LPDO loose pieces drop off and that queen is not defended the last moves we did see were King H1, Bishop D8 and Knight D5 Knight D5 is a fancy move it looks like a good move but there's no threat at the moment so black doesn't really have to react he definitely doesn't want to play Knight D5 either because after Knight he takes D5 checkmate is threatened on H7 this bishop is suddenly open so yeah black needs a good move though does black swap everything off does black start exchanging pieces Knight D3 maybe so what happens let's have a look at this how do we recapture first off we cannot take with the queen otherwise the knight would be hanging so that leaves us with well we could capture actually potentially first on F6 and that would be a mass liquidation check I will take back I can either take on F6 or take on D3 let's take on I don't even know the problem with this game is I don't know who's playing this is sharp stuff who's playing for what I mean if you take back on D3 for example not that way yeah but also queen takes ah but queen takes I mean could we see some huge simplifications but I think black's doing well here for example I can take on E4 and be a pawn up I couldn't take on F8 first and make something work I don't think so white's back rank is a bit tender as well I don't want to allow any of black's rooks to come down and checkmate you eventually D9 takes F6 isn't quite working unless I've written this variation off too soon queen takes C2 maybe queen g3 here queen g3 doesn't quite work because white's rook would be hanging at the very end sharp stuff so much calculation to be done 90s D3 maybe white just recaptures with so sharp I'm trying to get my head around this one we see Mustafa as deep in thought and this one also I mean that one the clock times earlier were very evenly matched but after Paravian spent 22 minutes on his move 95 he's now down to under half an hour still only on move 18 I think Mustafa will take his dear time here so much to figure out take a sweet time for sure that's the one I was looking for sweet time yeah I think it's roughly level but a lot of calculation D needs to be done David yes Can I take you back to board 5 we see the hoodie there Dennis is away from the board we've had a result on board 1 we see the kings actually Wang Hao doesn't look too happy I think I'm happy that Andrei Sipenko didn't go on to lose that game because that would have been heartbreaking Wang Hao was your pick to win the tournament Wang Hao has a chance this means that these two players are the first two players to reach a 7 and a half out of 10 what that means is that if either Paravian or Yilmaz win most likely they will win the tournament Max Zulu is a pond down against M.V.L. fighting for a draw his winning chances are unfortunately almost nil that means this board 2 clash has just 30,000 pounds of riding on one game incredible so that's the one we will be focusing on the most of course but we have just come from it I would like to go very quickly to board 5 David Navarra against Dennis Kadric was looking very exciting when we last checked in there that's right and this one's lightening up for sure Dennis is feeling greedy today he wants to snack on pawns if he can't win a prize he'll win some pawns so after the move Q7 I was correct F5 was played just getting a bit of space on the king side trying to open up some lines maybe some threats later on H6 and I dropped back and Dennis took on F5 Fiona it looks like he's on the opposite side of a Grand Prix attack this time I know and I think he won't be happy to be the one who's being attacked I think he loves his attacking chances and especially to have an excellent calculator like David Navarra attacking you must be quite scary we see David has just taken on F5 he recaptured immediately can I take on H6 yes you can and I think he you should probably you can play a kind of positional type of chess where you accept that your two pawns down but you can seize complete domination of the light squares, knight H4 might be tempting allowing a sequence I know you want to go to another game quick in a moment and we will jump there but White might be able to just exchange off the knight for the bishop play two pawns down but with complete domination of the light squares rook Fv1, rook AF1 coming and a big attack rook H5 is also on the cards but a long way to go I love David's chances for now let's go back to board 22 again Lei Tingzhe is on fire I love how the way Fia put it in the chat what in blazes has happened to Dura Baile's queen I mean Lei Tingzhe is on fire Vasif Dura Baile's no it doesn't quite have a ring to him almost yeah this one has gone crazy the queen is gone off the board, queen takes E6 was played after White's incredible knight takes E6 sacrifice queen c4 queen c6 checkmate here on g2 White didn't play bishop h5 we thought that might be decent but instead bishop f3 and Black just took it she must have seen something that we missed yeah I mean maybe now queen b6 would be met strongly by 95 and both rooks are attacked queen c8 looked harder to refute for me but maybe just 95 anyway maybe this king is not surviving bishop h5 is still coming I mean also both bishop f3 and queen f3 were played instant no but this clock time cannot be correct surely they are not just blitzing out every single move here possibly unbelievable they have literally just been blitzing out the last few moves so let's see it so after Black took on f3 giving up the queen White recaptured and he got his king into safety finally but it is just like yesterday just like the game espenko maizulu it's queen for two pieces queen for two bishops here it should not be enough it should not be enough I mean I can't see why the white king is not even in any immediate danger at all you just have to be a bit careful there is one plan for Black and Nxf3 check but if you can stop that plan White is just winning and I don't see why a move such as queen e2 maybe even queen d4 queen e2 just looks to me very strong why allow any Nxc5 nonsense and I think if anyone it's Black's king who is still in a bit more danger Black has one very strong bishop on b7 defending that piece is not quite enough in this position they say one bad piece makes a position bad but one good piece isn't normally enough that begs the question of how is Tanjong Yi getting on because Lei Tingzhe has a winning position as we saw yesterday whether she wins it or not I believe in her I think she will win and she will reach the massive score of 6.5 let's see how Tanjong Yi is getting on on board 19 so Tanjong Yi knows her fate is in her hands but if she does get nervous if she does think her game is hedging towards a draw she might have to look at her rivals games her rival of course these two I think they are very close friends they are probably sharing a room here and they are actually sitting back to back I hadn't noticed that before not back to back per se but on back to back board and I think she will know that actually if she draws and if Lei Tingzhe wins it won't be enough for her the difference between half a point maybe Lei Tingzhe will buy her a drink I don't know I don't know let's check in with her position so this one has changed a little bit after Quincy 3 Knight f4 some pieces got exchanged Knight b6 Knight to e4 Knight to c4 maybe was less attractive because bishop a6 at the end is a bit nasty so I couldn't win a pawn bishop g5 Knight fg5 Knight to h3 Knight to b1 earlier Knight to tangos this one has gone round this way this one came out to b1 back and we're still only on move 22 me and my arrows came out to d2 so 8 moves with the knights after 22 that's quite the stat stat man David Howell I'm confusing myself with all these arrows but it looks like Knight h3 let me put a move on the board just to get rid of my arrows now Knight f4 is coming David I'm going to make a very bold prediction nothing to do with this game whatsoever I just suddenly got a feeling I think Mustafa Yelmaz is going to become the outright winner of this tournament why did you say that Fiona? I just saw in the chat that he has a huge time advantage and I think that might just be that I mentioned before that I see him as the more experienced and vastly more experienced player on that top international level he's played so many olympians for Turkey he's played in your age groups and all these Paravyan again he's a player I actually know very little of but I think the experience and the time advantage might be crucial so that's my prediction. No that's right and Yelmaz he's won two Turkish championships he's achieved a lot at the young age and Paravyan is also very strong he did very well in the Isle of Man tournament a couple of months ago but he won two tournament victories to his name and first for him he's really kind of thrown in at the deep end here imagine if Mustafa Yelmaz wins I think we never even saw any of his games until yesterday like he was completely off our radar but we were talking about it before in these big open tournaments how you start of course like you can't lose all your games but how you finish is really where it's at you know three four games if you pick up some momentum that keeps building and building and he'll be full of confidence now he's won a few games in a row he won a very nice game yesterday against Ceparinov and time and again we see this I mean last year I started terribly here in Gibraltar and I managed to win a few towards the end and likewise World Junior Championship a few years ago Abadjip got to one five in a row to catch up and win we just saw some pieces get exchanged Maxim took on a four rookie four castles nice arrows I saw someone in the chat say that Hikaru was not impressed about the arrows because I think he can draw more it was the Ionicle I think that's right and actually we did see Black took on E4 immediately and then castled Queen's side incredible does it look that safe here I mean Black wants another pawn back on this piece all I want to do is get all my pieces to gang up on the C file play B3 and get on with it I mean a simple plan if Fiona had this position it would be guaranteed where did Tan Zhongyu play Tan Zhongyu played Knight F4 and Black played rook D7 just aiming to double up against this backward deep pawn I need to give some thought to how I'm going to defend this deep pawn can't have that drop her knight is it going to go back to E2 eventually or I think it might have to drop back to defend this pawn meanwhile Black's knight is also passive stuck out there on the side of the board knight on the rimmer dim it is defending C4 but it's hard to get rid of that knight I mean this one feels like it's in the balance somehow I mean it's so paradoxical for Black to castle Queen's side so counterintuitive but maybe maybe Maxime has found a way to stay in the game David back to how we had another result on the top 10 it is Gawain Jones and Jan Verler they have drawn their game on board 8 and those two are also officially out of any potential tie breaks a great result for Jan Verler who's gaining 25 rating points here undefeated congratulations to him both those players will be going home with some cash we'll have to find out to see where exactly they end up so yeah congratulations to Jan Verler for Gawain also a decent result yeah huge congratulations to Jan a great tournament especially for someone who doesn't play so often these days but a bit disappointing if he won and if board 2 was a draw he would be in a playoff David let's go back to the top boards again because we've had some developments actually on board 2 so let's go there okay and board 2 between a players we were just talking about David Paravian and Mustafa Yulmaz there have been a couple of developments we left it after night to D5 Queen C6 just calmly moving the queen out of this pin along the H3 to C8 diagonal and some pieces came off the board I think your prediction is less likely now I was just getting so excited but again if my prediction is wrong if this game I'm not mistaken right if this game ends in a draw we'll definitely have a playoff if Magzulu doesn't win I will bet I will eat a hat live on camera you will eat a house I'll eat a house if Magzulu wins as black especially the graph because it looks like he has no hope not only does it guarantee a playoff but it guarantees a playoff with 4 players yes oh this is true so we'll be here for even longer today you'll be listening to us for a good 7-8 hours minimum even more possibly if it goes to further playoffs in an Armageddon but that does mean if there's 4 players a semi-final and a final so let's look at it we left after the night jumped to D5 mm-hmm yep oh you did sorry I was I was getting so I think we're all getting ahead of ourselves here over excited Queen C6 was played for a calm move we saw some exchanges in 1976 Mustafa Yulmaz is just thinking how to capture that night I would probably just capture with the rook just purely to get rid of white's most active rook and we could see some exchanges here yes white's pawn structures slightly better but the opposite color bishops will balance each other out black's double pawns do control the center after all and if the rooks and the queens disappear from the board this is a guaranteed draw it's important that white can't get this bishop to C4 otherwise white would have a small advantage but I can't see much to play for here by the way Erdo in the chat who's watching us from Turkey he's saying that if Mustafa wins they'll have a national holiday in Turkey in his honor and he should I mean that's a joke but they really should yeah they will I remember going to the airport once in Turkey I think it was Istanbul and I came out and there were I think there were hundreds of people there was some big sporting event he should get a parade if he wins it should roll the chairs when he flies home there were hundreds of people just gathering like literally singing and chanting and celebrating their sports stars so I'm sure he would be one of them David the clock situation can it be an issue for Peravian? I think he's out of danger I mean what black has no real targets no real activity and why it's king is super safe I would be amazed if time became an issue in this game it will be such a simple position after some exchanges on F6 so let's go in one game we haven't seen in a long time is board 3 MVL we have been telling you guys that Magzulu is unfortunately very unlikely to win his game so I guess the main question is can he hold on to the draw more likely now than it was a few weeks ago black has completely closed the king side so black has a pawn down on this side of the board now we see with King E6 black is defending the F5 pawn suddenly it's going to be very hard for white to make use of this extra pawn we should also mention that we were talking about Yomaz if he draws he will be out of the playoff for sure his performance is so low that because he crept up from the back he hasn't been up on the top boards whereas his rivals have so he will be trying so Yomaz needs to win if he wants first place I mean a draw he'll still get some great money and MVL also needs to win to join the playoff it's not clear whether he will get in or is it so MVL before this game he's performing at 27-20 Yomaz is performing at 27-14 so if he wins his performance will definitely be enough to jump up but he needs to rely on Yuffa not winning I think Yuffa is performing ahead of MVL Verla who is the best performing player on six and a half has already drawn so MVL win and he's got great chances to get into that playoff David a very quick look at board 5 I think we're going to be joined by a special guest shortly but before we do let's have a quick look at board 5 again David Navara has just played a very mysterious move that's right so I was correct Knight H4 I'm on fire today with the guessing game I'm sorry to disappoint you David but apparently judging by the chat it was not a great move though apparently Bishop takes H6 the most obvious move the most obvious was the best move sometimes the natural move the one you think or first is the best I was just trying to be a bit flashy with Knight H4 I was kind of a fun suggestion rather than a serious one but Bishop takes H6 does indeed look strong and I think White will just exchange some pieces bring another to the game all of White's pieces will be ready to attack and I'm reading something else after Knight H4 apparently Bishop takes H3 might be very strong for Black so the idea is this I mentioned earlier if Queen takes Knight will take Bishop White has ideas such as rook A, F1, rook H5 and despite being two pawns down White controls the light squares but because that Knight is loose on H4 instead Black can throw in the kind of intermezzo the intermediate move Bishop takes H3 and if White takes we get the same thing except Black's got an extra pawn so Black's three pawns out now and I think that would be too much not enough compensation for David Navarro so wow and Dennis is looking over that side of the board we see him locked onto the king side Bishop takes H3 what else could Navarro be aiming to play Knight F5 and play three pawns down surely not I still think he has great compensation in terms of practical play complete domination of the light squares but three pawns is three pawns very quickly look at Leitingje again your favorite game of the round my favorite game maybe of the tournament board 22 is she any closer? I love White's position I think it's a two or three accurate moves and I think this game will be in the bag with Leitingje down on board 22 after Castle's queen side we saw her having a think Queen C2 was played in the end my Queen E2 was clearly too simple Queen C2 a nice flashy tactic if Knight takes E5 Queen F5 check will be very annoying her opponent would have to retreat and White would be crushing White is not only firmly in control she's probably winning it's not this is Tanjong Yi by the way they're related can't bring the cameras back to Leitingje but for now we're going to take a short break and be back with a very special guest so don't go anywhere Adam scores a critical win against Mikhail Antipov going into round 10 Miki has six and a half points he joins us in our studio Miki a very interesting win today a good result for a very up and down game yeah I was just incredibly lucky really I didn't know this Knight G4 at all and well okay it's not such a strong move but I sort of played this Rook E2 and it just got more and more awkward I somehow I was never some good moment to play H3 I thought he was going to play H5 and then he came up with this very strong move Queen H5 was a very good move but she had to Bishop C2 I didn't think things were so bad and then Queen H5 and he threatened to take on D4 and take on H2 and H3 Knight F6 he's from Bishop H3 Bishop G2 okay Bishop E3 I was already desperate and probably not a very good idea it looks like things have already gone wrong for me well Bishop E3 I thought okay I was thinking the game is not going to last very long but somehow the only hope that I sort of had was somehow around here that when he was going F5 I mean I can see I was going to lose a piece but I thought if I can kind of get this wall of pawns at least then my king is safe I don't know if E4 was the best move maybe it was maybe there were other possibilities but after this kind of Rf2 D5 Knight D2 at least I straightened out my structure and the Bishop on A7 is not playing for a very long time here is this kind of weak pawn on H7 so you lose a piece by force because Bishop E4 runs into D5 you don't want that I mean it's difficult because I have to be a bit careful he doesn't go from D6 to H6 and just made me that was the other he can drive with D6 pawns and it's not made immediately so I mean okay Black was still doing very well but okay I don't think it was so straightforward to win and then somehow I tricked him around the time control with this F4 idea we're going to ask you to come a little forward yes thank you yeah because I mean I think the problem is Rxg4 Rxg4 I know this Rxh5 and if he takes he can take on g4 he has to play Rf5 and I think I can play Rxh6 and the Bishop on B6 is hanging and he's still pinned so yeah I mean it's just a kind of tactical thing so I mean he then he went for this then he went for this Nxh4 but then I'm getting these two pass pawns I mean it's clear he could have defended better I think Rxh6 was a mistake for sure but okay I mean it's of course Black should be doing well here but it's not so easy because it's easy for me to play King f2, Qd3, Rh1 and I'm pushing pressing the h-port and he has to he's in his awkward pin and he has to try and decide how to untangle I mean Miki for me it's amazing to hear that because here you are you're down a piece your King looks relatively not very safe you know you've got these pawns but they look weak and then you just start your King march to the not so weak because okay I have like seven pawns to protect I mean I have a lot of pawns so it's you know an f2 I mean there I came to d1 it's not you know on d1 it's quite safe the knight on d2 is protecting almost all the checking squares around King on d1 Queen on d3 so it's not I think my King is quite safe but of course it's practical chances I mean normally I would be very happy to save a draw but you know sometimes I would lose I mean to win the game is totally unexpected also in the kind of tournament situation that you're in you have to take a little bit of chances both of you have to take chances both of us probably wanted to win so yeah obviously that was maybe a factor but I think by the time control we just got very random yes as it does lots of things happened I had a bit more times and maybe that helped right and Miki at this moment you said that you know even though you knew probably slightly worse your evaluation was that practically you still have chances here well okay I mean I just knew that I had a kind of clear plan and that's I know what I was doing and I can make quick moves and that's always important in a practical game it's a different you know the theoretical assessment is not so important when you're playing right and where do you think he made the final mistake because suddenly it just looked like well I wasn't sure I thought rook h7 instead of rook h6 because well I don't know that was that was his 40th move I don't know it seemed more logical to me just because okay well he's at least attacking the pawn on g7 just to play rook h6 where he doesn't even attack the pawn which seemed a bit strange I mean I wasn't sure I thought maybe queen f3 was good queen f3 to f8 looked quite quite promising because rook g7 queen f8 changed the rook and you know maybe it's just maybe it's just very good in this pawn on g7 I wasn't really sure what was happening I knew I was doing I knew I was doing really well so that pawn got got from g3 to g7 9g8 well I don't know 9g8 he played rook f8 well I guess he could try king d7 I mean that obviously doesn't look good with this I don't know I was thinking maybe knight f3 to come 9g5 looked quite I mean he could play rook h5 9g5 take take but I think that's probably lost for him I don't know it looks bishop c7 knight g5 it looks pretty bad looks really bad but it doesn't really look like somehow I had the feeling that it was probably winning and obviously I don't have to play knight f3 immediately I could look for some other move would you realize that you actually had winning chances in the game well okay no no once I got the three pawns and these two pass pawns there's also practically now I mean he's obviously very unhappy that he messed up psychologically as well and also he didn't have much time for his he was down to three seconds on a couple of moves so it's not such an easy position to hold with the pawns coming down and some checks with rook f1 and some tactical ideas so it's not an easy position to defend short of time I have to say that this game is very fascinating but also not a very usual Mickey Adams win yeah I don't know I mean I had a lot of games I was just better doing very well and I just didn't win I think three or four games I was just you know grinding some endings and very nice positions and just not winning and making a mess of them maybe this is how I didn't really deserve to win but you know maybe maybe I got some of the points I dropped there back in this game going into the last round feelings approach about approach for tomorrow are you thinking about it not too much I probably have black so I mean I just have to play normally and see what happens I mean it's not so easy to have with black but I don't know I mean the pairings aren't it's not completely certain of course but it's very difficult to do much with black in the last round so I don't know I'll just wait and see what the pairings are right well that was a fascinating game a very interesting one for the audience thank you for your time and good luck for tomorrow hello welcome back it is an absolute honour and a pleasure to be joined by His Excellency the Governor of Gibraltar Lieutenant General Davis welcome to the studio