 Maxime Vashir Lagrab finished the Gibraltar Masters with 7.5 points. He had a great win in the last round but not good enough to make it to the playoffs. He joins us in our studio. Maxime, a win in the last round. It's been an up and down tournament for you, games-wise, but a good finish. Definitely a good finish. Winning my last two games, of course, I got a bit lucky that I got two wights in a row. But today's game was... I was pressing in general but I felt like it should be a draw on best play. And I think Para missed some chances to make a draw. You got an extra pawn quite early on but he always had a bit of play for that? It's not really a play, the idea is that he gets a really good blockade. And he will get some counter play one way or another and I think he should have got it here. He could have played B6, Qc8, Qc8... Sacrifice another pawn? Sacrifice another pawn but this doesn't matter so you go Qc1. And somehow I think you have enough counter play whenever I take B6, you take A2, you put my king to H2, then you go Qx3, you attack the bishop on D3 and E3 and I think it's a draw. So there was another way, Qxc5, Qx and Qx94. But this is much more dangerous. Yes, to look at. But it seems like it's going to be a draw. So for instance I had this idea of playing Qx5 and if he goes Qd5, now c6. Oh, you want to go B6 after? Very dangerous, yeah. But simply Qc8, Qx7, Qc5. You get the B pawn, you get the A pawn. Yeah, I could play A4 but it won't change the situation so this should be a draw. And then after that, did he have any other chances after he missed this or did the position get very passive? I mean actually I think I was not really precise because maybe I should have gone Bc2 to prevent him from regrouping the way he did and maybe just hit at d5. But overall I think it was just winning and there were a few scary moments. The game lasted a hundred moves or so. Yes. But yeah, it doesn't show here but it lasted for a while. Long game but you did what was required, you won it but it was not good enough to make it to the playoffs a little bittersweet? Well, I've been so lucky in this tournament that you know, of course I would have liked to make it to the playoffs but I didn't really deserve it so it is a good result. Of course with a little bit even more luck, I would have made it to the playoffs but that's okay so I will just have fun watching them. You will have fun as will be now out of the four players who are playing the playoffs. Who would you be rooting for or who do you think has had quality-wise the best tournament so far? It's hard to say. I think Juancao and Yesi Panko had the best tournaments. But you know, playoffs you never know what to expect and of course I mean for instance for Yesi Panko, I mean Adi won yesterday of course we wouldn't be talking about playoffs probably and he definitely should have won. So you know, it's up to him not to show mental strengths because of course he's very young but if he wants to become a top player and I mean quality-wise he could become easily. He has to show this kind of strength so you know maybe it would be nice to see him win but of course I mean I'm not going to be like rooting for him. I don't have a preference but it would be nice for him at least to make a statement if he manages. I think a statement he's already made at the Masters. You have been a part of many playoffs here, tying for first. What's the most important thing going into these tie breaks? The most important thing of course is to forget about first your game because once I played a really wild game against Vichugov and then I had to go to the playoffs after a really wild draw where I was winning and you know I couldn't recover from that game. So it was, I mean there was very little time and it was very difficult to switch my mind to the tie break so it is a bit different when you have the playoffs on the same day than the last game and otherwise I mean you need to be fresh and I mean as fresh as possible. Yeah considering it's been a wrong tournament for everyone. Yes. Had fun overall in Gibraltar? Of course as always. As always we love that. Well thank you so much and we wish you all the best for all your tournaments in this coming year. Thank you Tanya.