 Anna Muzichuk is in the race for the top women prizes as she won her game in round eight of the Gibraltar Masters. She joins us in our studio. Anna, a win with the white pieces, but a good result, but it also looks like you were doing well from the start today. Yes, it seems like I had a good position from the opening. I didn't expect this bird defense. I was mainly checking E5, his manual and the different versions of the relops. But maybe you played this one. In the beginning I was thinking, but somehow to A4 I think my opponent started to think so that was already fine that you were both out of prep. Well, not like out of prep, but at least sometimes it's better. I mean, it's good when your opponent stops blitzing, so you feel more confident. And I liked my position, so here I am after C3 because I keep the center. And in fact, here your opponent took a long time. He had a long tink here, 25 minutes. Yes, I was a bit surprised because 96 is a bit artificial, maybe also. But he had the idea, as far as I understand, if I can do it with Castle, Castle. And if I don't play F5, let's say if I go, can I move here? Yeah, yeah. Let's say like H3 with the idea of G4, then perhaps his idea was to play E6 and then to meet G4 with F5. F5. I'm not sure if it's good, but if he isn't lost immediately, then he brings an I2F sign and it's also fair. Right. And you decided to go full-on combat with F5 yourself. How did you evaluate this move during the game? Yes, first I know computer likes such moves in such kinds of deposition, but during the game you never know. So GTXF5, that's what I anticipated. And yeah, I also considered NG3 as another possibility, but I thought that at least he could play NG6. It's just this one. And probably I still have to take GTXF5 if I want to. With the point. Yeah, if I want to get the same position, but the problem was that after this, not the problem. You actually got the same position in the game. Yes, but here there was a strong H3 as I was already told. I didn't see that. Not an easy move to think of. Yeah, not easy. Okay, the idea is to play G4. So you don't really care about taking on F5 because you will go G4 and the knight doesn't have. And I win the piece. That's actually a nice line. Let's have it on board. For example, if you go Bishop F5. G4. And there is no place. And then you win the piece. A nice trick, but what you played also looks good for white. Yeah, NG3. And I thought that instead of CTXF4, he would first take a bit of XC3. And now like this. And the only line I managed to calculate, let's say, QA5, Bd2, Qd5. So now he's writing to take the pawn. But I saw that I have Rc1. And so after that knight F5, I think I have Rc8. Nice. And he doesn't have time to take on G3 because you give a check. All right. And for Bf5, there is Bc4, then I take the knight and then I take the bishop. Nice. I hope it works. Yeah, Rc1 is a nice trick. But in the game, actually, the way you played and in this position onwards, you had a very pleasant position in the game. But I think it really... I think also in this moment, sorry to interrupt you, but I think Black should have played A5 because I mean, after Kh8, I played A5 myself and now potentially B4 and A6, sorry. Forever. Right. So A5 was necessary. But things really started to go wrong for Black after Ng4. The Indians loved your move, Bp4. Why is it so important to trade off this bishop? The only side to take on B4. Yeah, I just saw that the biggest problem of Black's position is the pawn structure and also the king's weaker. So if I manage not to let some counter play or some tricky ideas with Rf3 and Bd4, then I should be winning because the pawn structure is really very bad. So therefore, Bb4 seemed logical. Maybe I could have taken on B4 and that's also fine, but I mean... Bb4 is actually the strongest move in this position. Yeah, maybe, but who knows. Then Bd4, Qh4 is... No, I mean Be4 is the strongest move, not Bb4. Ah, Be4. Right. Yeah, no, because I think what you said, just getting rid of Black's strongest piece and you have all the trumps then in the position. For example, after d5, I can simply go back and then this bishop is blocked and I can take this pawn at any moment. I even thought about this idea. Bishop takes a 7. But I'm not sure if it works because there was some line like... King? King? Yeah. I think this... No, first I start with Ng5. Ng5, yeah, it's... And then... King at 8. And if I play Qd3, then they take... X, yeah. Take... Sometimes it just doesn't work. And Qg8 is probably the only defense and I'm not sure I'm... It looks ugly, but it kind of holds everything. Yeah, but if I simply play Bd3, it's already... Yeah. I mean, now I really threatened Bb4 so I can just play h3, I mean all these pieces. I don't see this pawn getting defended because even if you go Qe7, you've got Rk4 coming in and you should win this and this bishop looks horrible. No, for Qe7, there is also the idea like this, Nf6, and I take, take, and Nf4. Oh, nice. And then there's no way to defend against... Very pretty. Okay, but then in the game, after this move, you got... Did you feel that you were very close to winning? After a bishop defile, sure, it's winning and I believe there are many ways how to win, but I wanted to find the most precise one. I'm not sure how successful I was. Because, for example, I can also play like h3, Nf6, and probably some Ng5, Ng5. But Rk8, and yeah, some lines. I played Qe6, that's what I thought. Maybe I just take the pawn. On d5. Lots of pleasant choices to make and then a very nice trick in the end here like Qe8 just to finish the game. Yeah, Ng7, Rk6, but I think also Ng6 takes d6. Yeah, this just wins on the spot and the point is that black can't take because you are winning here. Happy with the way things went today? It's better to win, right? Absolutely, and tell me, today was very nice, but overall, how has the tournament pinned for you? It's unclear, some games, so I'm winning yesterday, lost to Shahria unfortunately, but yeah, still two more rounds to go. Let's hope they will be fine. Yeah, and you are one of the players who are in the chasing pack for the top prizes. Do you think about that, or is it just one game at a time? In general, we think, but before the game we mainly try to concentrate on the game and focus just on this game because if you think about it all the time then you can go crazy. So better just to think about the game and try to do your best. Anna, before you go, tell us about playing in Gibraltar because you're a regular star here. Yeah, it's my 10th time in Gibraltar and I really like this festival obviously. I like the atmosphere, like the organizers and all. It's actually my 10th year here as well. Yes, and all these side activities with the master classes. You played the battle of the sexes. Yeah, and so on. It's really, really nice. Who can forget the 96 move in the first game of the battle of the sexes? 96 was fantastic. Well done. We wish you all the best for the last two games and we hope to have you back in our studio, Anna. Thank you.