 Pragya Nanda won a nice strategic game against India's Padmini Raut in round 3 of the Gibraltar Masters. He shows us what happened in the game. Pragya, you won your game against Padmini today. Take us through the critical moments. Here, I think it was just equal, but she won 9-d5 and now I had to take with the bishop. And here, yeah, there is some interest in queen b3, but I don't think it just doesn't do anything. Even if she takes on visa, I can go rook fb8. I have to ask you to explain to our viewers that why is it so important because this 9-d5 loses a piece just to show us why. Because of this trick, so you didn't have an option but to play bishop d5 here. I mean, after this also, our bishop is bad and my knight I can reroute to c5 somewhere like happened in the game. So you felt you had a pleasant position already? Yeah, I was thinking I have pleasant, but should be draw somehow. Here, she found a good plan like improve her bishop like g3, 9-d7 rook fd1. Trying to get bishop ff1, bishop h3. So she found the square on h3. Yeah, and also it controls c8, so it's not, I need to do something now. This is actually quite a nice maneuver, no? Yeah, I actually missed it when I played rook fc8. I saw it like after she won g3. And here, now first I was considering this plan, rook c1, rook c1, rook c1, rook c8. But now she is in time with rook c8, queen c8 and bishop h3. And everything gets traded off. Yeah, and then she takes on d7 and queen b6 comes. If I go queen c5, then queen c5, knight c5, b4, and then bishop c8 comes. And the sending is dangerous for black, but probably after the knight and bishop exchange it should be equal. Yeah, it should be draw. I went a5, first I was worried of this bishop b5, but then I saw this trick, knight c5, b4. Take. No problem, you just go here. Take, take. No, no, sometimes it happens. And knight b3. So queen b3, queen b6 comes. Okay. And then you just control the, but I mean this should also be equal for, I mean she just takes queen b3 here. Yeah, queen b6. I think already black is... Yeah, better I think. Black is better now. Because I have active queen and sometimes I have queen e2. Better rooks as well. Yeah. Okay. So here she won bishop h3. And then now I need to take and play knight c5. And here b4 was interesting. That's what I think she should have played like ab4, ab4. Yes. Ab4, ab4. Yeah, and then I need to go knight a6 I was thinking. And now rook just rook b1. Now it's not easy for me to do something because c8 is controlled and if I go queen c7, she can go rook c1 back. And come back rook b1. Yeah, rook b1. And let's say here I was thinking to do something like g6, king g7. Just try to improve. Because even if I go knight c7 she has queen b6. Which is, which I think is good for white. Yeah. Yeah, my rook is bad and probably this should be equal. You think after b4 she could have kept a balance here? Yeah. I mean after bishop often our position got really passive. Like I just got queen b6. Yeah, I think it's already a bit better for black. So Prah, was it important for her to control this queen b6 idea because then you get your pieces at the idea? Yeah, that's what I think. Because like if I put my pawn f4 then it's already my knight on c5 is really good. Yeah, you can never push that out. Yeah, she should try something like b4 maybe. But even now she tried to create some counter play on the king side. But I think it was bad because like now also like she could have tried some king g2. Yeah. And actually I was not threatening f5 because I just put my rook on f5. You're pretending to threat f5. If I go f5 then my king is actually becoming weak. Let's say if I go f5, e5, rook f5. Now queen c3 let's say and now b4 and queen c8 is a problem. Right sir. If I go a4 then there might be this bishop b3, bishop b4. And the bishop suddenly becomes quite active. Also some queen b4 somewhere. You can't even trade it or maybe you can't trade it because queen c8 you have rook f8 but okay. Yeah, it's fine for white already. Some queen c3, I mean she should try for some b4 thing I think. She went f4. Then now it's like e4 is weak. I just go rook e8, rook f5 and then it's... I mean she has no counter play on the king side. It looks there is something but it's nothing actually. So tell me one thing even though pieces are equal pawn they're equal. You were evaluating this position as better for you because of your active knight? Yeah also like why can't do really nothing? I mean because I put my pawn on a4. Yeah what is your plan? Tell us like what... White can't do anything but what is how is black improving here? Yeah just like in the game h4 a4. Can't say. H4 a4. Now I'm somewhat turning queen b3. It's like it's a bit annoying to face these kind of threats because after queen b3, queen b3, a b3. Now e4 is weak and sometimes b2 is also there. Rook a4, rook a4. This is nice. Bishop on f1 is doing nothing. I mean if the pawn was an f3 she could try some bishop h3. Also that's the problem. Yeah but with this pawn on f5 also now bishop h3 makes no sense. And so you just want to trade off White's kind of only active queen and then get your rook and make it attack her weaknesses. Yeah that's why she went bishop c4. But now I have different plans. This queen a5 and just b5 b4. Yeah g4. But Permanent really tried to create play over here because clearly but probably it's not on time. She's not able to do enough on time. So you want b5 here? Yeah bishop f1. Now bishop a2 then already b4 comes. Yeah. Then g5 b3 is there. She went bishop f1, I went rook b8. I found this rook b8 because g5 queen d8. Now there is nothing on the king side. Yeah I can't do anything. Sorry just explain why this is an important move rook b8 here. Because I just get my rook here. You want to play b4 at some point. Then I get my queen d8 then f6 is different. Right. So like if I go b4 still that should be better for me maybe but I'm not sure I have a g5. Some counter play here. So basically what your queen to come into defense. I just get my rook. Oh yeah rook g2 b4. I think this already should be practically winning for black. Right. Be bishop c4 b4. Yeah rook b1 king h2. Yeah now I got this rook d1, rook d4 idea. That's very technical. Maybe it's not the best one but it's not really like practically it's not easy for white to do it. I mean it's hard to defend the e4 pawn so she has to. Yeah bishop e2, rook d4, rook g4. Now I just thought like it's 38th move. I just play one more king f8. So you just wanted to get through the time. Yeah also like it improves somewhat my version. Yeah. No she went bishop b5. I think maybe she could have tried some waiting move like king h3. Did you tell me one thing Prave to play a move like king f8 because you know you make it sound easy. But did you take some time on the board to play king f8 or just naturally you made this move because it's a very interesting move. Because I mean I was thinking I thought like there's anything direct because there was nothing and then I thought okay. And white can't improve that position anyway. Yeah. So like I was thinking like king h3 and now I must go for this fg5 thing somewhere. I wasn't sure to do here or Right before the 40th move. Yeah. So like queen f8 doesn't look gf6 is there. Maybe I can also do this one and then try to bring the queen. Yeah it should be somewhere winning for black. So knight d7 to control the f6 pawn and then feed the queen from this. But there was this bishop b5 thing after knight d7 which is there. You don't want to trade your bishop for this knight. Yeah. So maybe I can try fg5. fg5 and... There's new variations right. Yeah. hg5 and then go queen f5. Queen b6 even. And can they go something like f6 here? You'll just go g6. Or f6 here maybe some queen b3. I'll just trade off yes. And then e4 is this one. Yeah. Yeah something like this should happen. Yeah but bishop b5 like made things easy actually for me. I just took to can play queen a5. So all endings are going to be winning for black. I'm getting tempo with queen a5 actually. Yeah. I was thinking should try something like bishop f1. Were you planning to trade off the queens with queen d2 or what? Yeah I could do. I was thinking actually to plan to trade the queens because it's technically winning after queen d2 but now I was not sure like actually it's not easy to find a move because I say rook d2 then even bishop g2 should be there. Bishop g2 do you have rook d3? And some queens c1 maybe. I mean if a queen gets in then it's like yeah because your king will suddenly be very weak. But probably you can just trade off your queens with queens. Yeah that's what I was thinking like queen d2. Too many weaknesses in the ending for white. Rook d2, bishop g2 I think is kind of force and rook a2. Rook a2 yeah. Right. Just meaning. Yeah this would be. She tried g6 but it's just meaning after h5. So g6 just was a small trick just to show that you can't take because of this but just simply h5. She just loses a piece no? Yeah I need to calculate some variation but it's nothing actually. I mean there was f6 then I take knight e4 there's this queen at 6 but this doesn't work. Knight f6. This is pretty. Show us why not g8 6. Yeah this g7. Yeah g7 and king g8 and f7 yeah. Yeah I would. Yeah. But simply you said after queen at 6 knight f6 holds it together. Yeah. And there's nothing yeah. Just queen at 8, knight g8. Rook f2, rook f4s. Yes nice. So she had queen g5, knight e4. Here first I was like just checking this line. It looks just piece up for me but it's not easy because my queen is not doing anything. Should be winning somehow. I was thinking rook d5. Rook b2 then rook c5. Yeah queen a7 and then some knight g5 just to a different f7. Rook d8, rook c8. Yeah I'm trying some e4, queen e5 thing. Yeah f6 is not nothing yeah. Yeah rook b7 also e4. Yeah I saw this then I thought okay I'll just go for it. Queen h5, queen d5. So then queen g8. Because after this you just defend everything. Same. But you know it looked like quite a quiet game in the beginning. But did you always feel like you were the one who was pressing because of your better pieces? Yeah. How were you evaluating the position? Yeah I mean I was pressing from, I mean I think after like when I got the safe and knight c5 already I think I was slightly better. I mean after I got queen b6. Yeah after that it was just better. So around. Yeah maybe it should be equal. Yeah around this point it was equal but after knight c5 you got your knight in and queen b6. Yeah after queen b6 I think it's already, I mean I have pleasant position already. And Prague how are you enjoying Gibraltar so far? You are here with your mother? Yeah it's good. But I lost the first round which was bad. Also with another Indian? Yeah. That was a tough game. Yeah I played really bad that game. Yeah. Yeah in the middle game I saw a draw but I just went some crazy things. You tried to over push and that. Prague you are coming from a camp with Vladimir Tramnik. Tell us about that. It's your second camp with you? Yeah actually this time with the girlfriend side too and it's very interesting camp but I could only attend the half camp because I had fever and I just left the camp. I attended the girlfriend self camp but I couldn't attend the Kramnik self camp. I actually attended the last two days with online but But you had one more before this. Yeah. It was in France. A group of you went there 6-7 kids from India I think it was organised by Chess Space and Microsance. Yeah it was very helpful for me. And I remember the camp even with the Yakovaga that we had in Scotland was very helpful because you went and played the next tournament. Extra fun and I won. You crushed everyone there? Yeah it really helped me a lot. Okay great well lots of more games coming up we look forward to having you with us Thank you for your time Prague. Thank you.