 Kirill Alexenko joins us in our studio after his draw against Turkey's Vahap Senal in round 7 of the Gibraltar Masters. Vahap is having an impressive run here in Gibraltar. Kirill, a draw with the black pieces today. A fair result after a solid game? Yeah, it was very solid after the opening and why didn't I have any advantage from the beginning? So, yeah, it was a fair result of the game. Even though there was this sharp swashnikov opening, did you feel that you could have complicated things at any point? Yeah, I expected more complicated, but he decided also to play solid in this game. And I knew some territory to the move, maybe, to move Qd2, because I remember that the main move here is to play Qd3. Right. Yeah, and to protect somewhere from A4, Ab, and also Qd3 looks more solid than on d2. And after Qd2, Rkd1, I have several good opportunities in this position. Even here, I can play, for example, h6. It should be totally fine for me. But I decided to play Qb8 with the idea of b3, so I have to play b3 first. Yeah, and then my common idea is to play A4, trade off the pawns. Yeah, trade and push my rook on a2, then double my rooks, and create some contemplation on the queen side. Yeah, so after Qb7, Qh1, he has some threat on f4 already. So I have to start immediately pushing A4. Yeah, and after Nb4, just everything trades. Everything trades and you sort of exchange the pawns on the queen side and you were left with the 4 versus the 4 and there was really not much to be done here. But at this point, you took a while. You took about 10 minutes to play g6. Yes, because I expected mostly Bg2 instead of fh4 and I was trying to remember what was in my analysis. But then somehow it's just transposed to itself. Right, well, today also you get some rest and like you said yesterday was also a quick game for you. No, not so quick. It was a very complicated game. In the time travel I also landed a piece so I was very lucky in the end. Right, going into the last three games you've got 5 out of 7. What's your feeling? Happy with your play so far? It's okay, I mean it could be better but also I defended one completely losing position so yeah, it's totally fine for me. And you were mentioning to us this problem about playing with the black pieces. Is always a bit tough, especially in open events? Yeah, definitely, because sometimes your opponent is not going to play for a win and you're about to just play very solid and it's not so easy to find any opportunities to create any chances problems. All right, well, three crucial games coming up. We wish you all the best and hope to see you back here. Thank you.