 Balash, got a draw today, which I believe clinches your second Grandmaster norm, is that correct? Yes, that's correct. For this reason that I only needed a draw today, I tried to play safe variation and indeed I got a risk-free endgame where I tried to push but maybe I missed some chances, although it's possible that she made some inaccurate moves that at least I could get these chances. Of course it's also important for the men's team result, you wanted to play solidly to try and make sure of the four points you need to clinch the £75,000 prize. Yes, well during the game I didn't think about that, the latter only about the points we need and I was like even though I only need a draw, if it's free-free then I of course I will push as long as I can because we don't know how many points we need for sure. Okay, let's get straight to the game. Yes. Okay Balash, Tarash defence today, Queens gambit, what happened next? I played probably the most side line with G3, I remember one of my, one of the Hungarian youth captains said that if you don't know what to do, just play G3, Bishop G2 because you played those positions well, so I was like, okay, let's go for that. It is probably not the most challenging because if Black knows his stuff then CD4 is like immediate equalizer because if Qd4 then Nx6 comes with tempo, so I need to take first Qd5, Qxd4 and if Black takes Qd4, Bishop G2, some pressure along diagonal, so first Black plays Qd5 which looks a bit strange, but actually my Queen doesn't sell too well on d4 because Nx6 is coming, so let's say e4, Queen b4 check, Bd2, I had the game six years ago here in Gibraltar against the Grandmaster who he took on d4 and after Nd4 I'm slightly better but in Nx6 is the precise move and after takes Bb4, Bb5, simplifications come and draw is most likely, but instead she played Nx6 sorry, first Nx3, but let's say she plays Nx6 instead, here, Bxg2, we got transposition to, okay, it can arise from Sumitara from Symmetrical English and here if she wants to go for what she got in the game she should take CD9d, Nxcbc and Nxd4 and then I have to take with Queen because if CD4 then Bb4 check and it's already bad for me because Bd2 can be met by Qxd4, so in the game what happened, she took first Bc9c6 and this is probably an inaccurate move order because it gives me an extra option to play CD4 and okay, I next move a castle and let's say Bb4 check, Bd2, there is no Qxd4, so it's a better version for me which I hesitated for like two minutes, but I was like this Queen last middle end game is risk free with queens on the board, everything could happen, so okay, Nxd4, I did some preparation here, okay, Qd4 as mentioned and there used to be a line with Bb4, but it's really dubious, so Bb6 is probably better now, I just want to show the line really quickly without too much explanation, Rc8, c1, the other rook can come, Black needs to do some precise moves to untangle, other than that there is huge pressure, Rd8, Rc1, Black cannot take because Rc7 is very strong, so Kd8 takes, King has to take back and there is a very strong idea to play g4, trying to fix the kingside structure, so let's say 8x6, h4, Black still needs some time to untangle, f4, it's important not to close the bishop first and then there is Bc6 check and let's say Kd7 or Kd6, I push e45 and only question is, is it a forced win for White or not? Gf1 won a game against Lake White in 2014 and after that everyone stopped this line with Bb4 check, so she played Bb6, which is probably a better way because she wants to play Rb8 and then Bb6, Bb7 and she couldn't do it before because Rb8, Bf4, but I want to stop this plan with a4, Rb8, a5 because here let's say Black plays, I don't play a5, Black plays B6 and then I play a5, she plays b5 and my pawn looks really funny on a5, but here what happened in the game? B5 on Poisson, only one pawn remains on the ab5s and it's easy to attack or block, so Bishop a3, I just want to show one more idea which I remembered not in exactly in this position but from my preparation, I wasn't sure if it's good for her to take and then cast, can we go back one more move instead of taking? Let's say she plays Kg7, yeah that's fine, I thought Kg7, I need to take because if she plays Rb8 and takes back with the rook that's really fine for her, so I take, I don't know if this works, we should be 7 and if she gets Rx8, she's fine, so just for showing the idea, we should be 7 is a motive here, stopping Rfc8 all together and if I get one more move, let's say Kd2, I'm really fine, but the problem I thought in the game is that she can just play Kc7, I need to go back and maybe it's a repetition, which I wouldn't have been so dissatisfied but this bishop b7 is an idea to keep in mind and I think she made some inaccuracies and we got a move around 29 h5, yeah, so we got everything I wanted, previous move I think she could have stopped this h5 with herself playing h5 because once I managed to stop her playing h5 then all pawn and games are quite dangerous and what happened in the game? Rd6, Rk3, yeah, it was important for me to play Rk3 now because if I give her one more move, let's say she brings the Kc7, Kg7, Rd8 and she's completely safe but now if I try to with Rx7 check, so she either plays Kc7 and then Rb7 or while she played in the game is probably stronger, Rc8 because here the king is closer so like let's say I want to play Kg5, it doesn't hit the rook, with the king on b7 I gain one crucial tempo and f4 I played, I think she mentioned that computer shows Rb3 is somewhat better but my idea was that let's say she plays g6 trying to simplify then h6 and if I don't have pawn on f4 then she can play g5 and collect my pawn so then basically I'm forced to exchange and then obviously that's nothing but here she cannot really simplify with g5 because let's say she tries Rg6 and there is no threat because Rg5 is met by d6 so I can just bring my king closer so okay this action backfires I would like to show one more line after f4, yes so instead I thought maybe she tries to force a draw but that was really okay double edge decision so let's say okay still no threat with rook h5 because of d6 but let's say next move she just plays Kb7 getting out of check so I need to play g4 at some point, g6 looking suicide but if black can manage to trade one pair of pawns, a gag brings the rook back and maybe I take on Kg5 I missed but what I want to show is that I wanted to play d6 here and if she takes then this is already getting really dangerous for her but I think the problem was that she could play Kc6 here and okay Rb6 doesn't mean because king gets back in time and if d7 happens take Rb6 and basically black is a tempo because it's her move my king is not on e5 and I think she can try to simplify with f5 into a pawn down like basically one against zero and game which should be draw this is what I thought I think yeah how is it ag Rg6 I'm not sure no I'm not sure after all this seeing it on the board so maybe it was nonsense Rg6 Rb7 maybe maybe this one yeah because if Rb7 king is 6 but that's still g5 okay let's let's go to critical position what we have discussed so move after king d7 35 probably one move before so here okay Rc6 basically I don't see a silent draw for because still I had some some ideas but here I calculated for a long time to play h6 because my problem in the game was that after Rc6 she had this f6 check and she gets to my pawn so if I start with this one let's say I take king e5 and I don't know why I was afraid to be honest because I so maybe I so started seeing some ghosts after all these long tournaments her b pawn starts running and I wasn't sure how quickly can I call like my pawns because let's say b5 king f6 b4 Rb3 Rb8 and she starts coming with the king also well actually the it was important that I put my rook on this third rank because it defends the g3 pawn which is the weakest so it would have been probably a way to to play on well I wasn't sure because if anything goes wrong and I lose then it's really heartbreaking so Rc6 still some some tricks in sleeve because okay for king e5 and yeah if I have one more move okay okay then always one more move then I would have been worthy ground master so Rd4 I need to take and I don't know it was move 40 but I had plenty of time maybe king g4 would have been worthy because here if she has king on e7 it's a draw because she's just plays 8-6 but here okay I try to with Rb7 and king probably to to e7 because if Rb7 this is nothing take take and 8-6 g6 and this is the other way around 8-6 has to be met by g6 other than that probably I really win so I can start the other move order with king e7 yes this one thank you 8-6 some I think I underestimated this one it should be a draw like even g6 should make a draw and the only thing not to blunder with black is to play Rh5 here Rh7 yeah because Rb7 now with a trick wins the pawn so she should just stay on the on the back rank and copy my moves so should be a draw and one more thing king e4 yeah or even she could go for in this line even if she takes on 8-6 instead two against one should be a relatively easy draw but okay there is no need for that what I played in the game king e4 Rh5 I had one trick in mind that if she plays king e6 okay if I take f5 it's obvious draw what just like in the game I wanted to try f5 check because she cannot take because Rb6 wins the rook it's important that my rook is far away from the king so there is no Rc6 king e7 everything should make a draw here but I had one trick that if she wants to force it with Rg5 I'm not sure but maybe it's losing because I play g4 okay somehow we get this opposition and the thing is that she cannot sacrifice h5 because I take and somehow I will be quicker I think just line one line I calculated that we promote same time but actually I will I will deliver mate with queen h7 and maybe the same that with she plays king f8 first and then king f5 and then get this opposition and I win with Tsutswang but okay she's 24 I don't know 30 something for a reason so of course she didn't fail and okay king d6 once again if Rg7 f5 and bring the king closer I tried g4 and okay f5 makes a draw everything makes a draw and okay final position I could maybe play on with Rg6 get some one against zero but okay it's filly the opposition is quite well known yeah okay thanks very much thank you