 The Women World Cup finalist and the Women Blitz world champion speaks to us about her game today against Kaya Kik. Let's have a chat with Katrina Lahno. Katrina, you got a pleasant position out of the opening and after Bishop at 7, it looked all over. What happened? Yes, it was already hopeless. So he made some mistakes before and after Bishop at 7, it was already, the game was over. But he tried to escape with his king, but well, I was a pawn up and exchange up, so it was quite an easy game. An easy game, but where do you think he went wrong? In the very opening, so he played a line, but he didn't know it well, so I had a pleasant position. An energetic game with an exciting finish. Now you took a buy in round five. How did you spend your day? Walking, shopping, so very nice, very nice free day for me. Sounds like the perfect preparation for round six. Yes, of course. It's the best preparation when you don't play chess. And are you satisfied with your play so far? Well, of course, I am not happy with my game against Adams and I know what happened, but I will not share it. So, well, I tried to forget it. That's why I took a free day and now I will play in a new tournament. Right, and you're a regular now here at the festival. Give us your impressions about Gibraltar. Well, it's a very strong open tournament and I'm very happy always to play here and not so easy, of course, because if you play good, you play strong co-opinions. If you play not good, you play not so strong, but still you have to win, you have to show good results. So, well, not easy, but for me it's a very nice place to be here and I'm joined very much. That's really nice to hear and indeed open tournaments are never easy. Now, Katrina, you are one of the strongest female players in the world. How do you think tournaments like Gibraltar contribute to women's chess? Well, I would like to have more tournaments like Gibraltar for women's chess because the prices are really high. Well, it's going to be better this year with a new series of Grand Prix and we will see how it will go on, but still I believe Fide will try to do the best things for women's chess, so at least they promised to pay attention on us. And talking about the new Fide, now there is the big change of the women's world championship cycle, which is transitioning to the men's format. What's your opinion on that? Okay, let's wait. But, you know, I enjoyed this knockout system also. Even I didn't play well before, not only because of my success in the Hunterman series this year, but still I think that it's a lot of fun to watch for the spectators when you play Armageddon game. But of course, if you want to know my opinion, maybe it's more serious and it's better to have the same system like in men's competitions, so same knockout is not more world championship, but world cup. Like a qualification for the candidates? Yes, so it looks, at least it looks logical to have the same system like in men's competitions. Now talking about you having a great run, you also won the gold in the world championship Blitz event. And you also became a mother recently. Tell us a bit about that. Well, not easy because I became a mother for the first time. And I decided to play in Hunterman series because it would be already my third world championship that I would miss if I declined. So that's why I decided to play it. And I don't know how, but it went well till the end. Well, not so, of course I wanted already to win that, but still it was okay. So of course not easy because first of all I'm a mother and I miss my children, but well, what to do? I also love to play chess and I still hope to have some energy to be a mother and to play chess good. So we'll see how we'll go on in the future. Well, you say not so easy, but you had a brilliant 2018. What's the secret? I don't know really, don't ask me because for me it's something really unexpected. Because as I told many times I was ready to go home at any point during the world championship. So, but well, you know, maybe I wanted... It was so hard at home that I wanted to stay there as long as possible. Because with four children you can imagine that you don't have one second, one free second. So of course for me playing to play chess it was not so hard this time. So I just enjoyed and it worked well. And talking about enjoying, are you enjoying Gibraltar so far? Yes, of course it's a rest. Of course, not preparing a lot, taking sun, fresh air, of course it's a rest. So really enjoying the tournament. You make it sound like a holiday? Yes, it is a holiday. Alright, well we look forward to the rest of your games and hope to have you back in our studio. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thanks.