 A little bit, yeah, a little bit. Okay. Off we go. Your move. So, my form. Good move. Very good move, quince point two square. So I think I'll move my knight over there. For the horse. The horsey? Knight there. Okay. And it's your move. And then I think I'll copy you. Okay. And move mine. Interesting. Yeah. Knight in front of the queen. Hmm, we're thinking now. What about if I move my pawn up? But I know you could take me, huh? And I am. Let me just try it. Let's try it. The pawn up there. Of course, and I am going to take you. You may take it. The pawn takes the pawn. You know I'm going to take it while I can. Take it while you can. Good. Woo! I lost the pawn. And you're attacking my knight. And I'm attacking your knight, not bad. So I'm going to move my knight somewhere. I'm going to move it to this square if you don't mind. Knight there. Okay, so then I'm going to move my pawn so that I... Pawn up one. Okay. Check, yeah. Not check, but you're attacking my knight. Yeah, horsey. My horsey is attacked, so I have to move it. Now I could take my pawn back here, but I think I can see what might be a better move. Let's try this. Knight there. Now watch out because I'm attacking your queen. Okay. Pawn takes knight. Haha! But now... How are you feeling, Christine? How are you feeling? Are you feeling good? Well, I don't know, but I've got two black pieces on my side of the board. You have, but I've got nothing. And you've got no white pieces. I've got nothing. So... But call it luck, or I don't know what you want to call it. But I think I can bring my queen out. What about if I come here? I know there's a trick here. There's going to be something. What about queen here? Now what is that? Let's check. What does check mean? Your king is in check. It means I'm dead. You've only got one move because your king can't escape. You could put something in the way on that square. You could move your pawn up one square. Okay, so... Just to block. Yeah, that's right. So... Forward one square. Here? To block the check. But of course I'm going to take. Then takes. And Christine, I'm afraid. That's checkmate. How? You can't escape. Sorry. First of all, what's it like to be here at the Gibraltar International Chess Festival? So it's a nice opportunity. For the first time in Gibraltar. Of course, I know the place. And suddenly Gibraltar became one of the most important places in Chess World. Because of traditional chess festival. Which you have here already for the 18th time. Of course, this is due to very active position of organizer, Brian Callaghan. Who is very interesting and very enthusiastic about chess. But now you have most important players. Even people who don't really follow chess would know the name Karpov. What has chess meant to you over your life? Chess has gone together with me for the whole life. Because I started to play chess when I was 4 years old. And I played my first tournament at 7. And the whole life, I do many things. Not only chess. I'm a member of parliament in Russia now. And I was a member of parliament during Gorbachev time. Last year of Soviet Union. Then I'm president of the most important charity organization in Russia. But still chess is a big part of my life. And I played 11 world championships in my life. Which is the biggest number for anybody in chess history. But I remember almost everything. There are going to be a lot of chess players here over the week. What advice would you give them? Without telling us the next year. It was in the middle of this side. Of course we have also advantage on that side and in the center. But it's not easy to break through. Later on of course I will bring back my bishop. But first I want to play bishop c2, then rook a1. Just don't be very upset if you have problems. Because in every situation you can find out some opportunities. And then you can save the game. Which was probably very badly looking for you. You must be self-confident and quiet. The 12 world champion, Anatoly Gov. The 12 world champion in this simultaneous display is a real pleasure. I was so thrilled when this opportunity presented itself. And I was so quick to respond to the email. And I was so happy when I got the email response to say that I was in amongst the 30 that would be playing. It's not every day. I've been playing chess over 30 years. And to get the opportunity to play against a former world champion. And such a name in chess is just magical. I'm so grateful to it. Fine, take me back to where the festival started. And what was in your head then? What was in your mind then? These were quite difficult times in the hotel world. And we were looking to develop winter tourism effectively. And so searching for niche markets, chess was one of those things that can come to Gibraltar. And in spite of the fact that we have good weather here, as you can see now, it was one of the things that we can deal with if it rains. And so we went to Hastings, which is one of the most important tournaments in the world. I thought that we could do better than they were doing. And that has proved to be the case. What does it mean to you, the festival? Well, I think you've just used the word festival. And this allows us here in Gibraltar to do many things that most chess events do not do. Most chess events or senior chess events like this one are a chess tournament. We call ourselves a festival, and that means that we can do many things around the periphery, such as having the Battle of the Sexes, such as having... The simultaneous. And indeed, this year we've started a fresh and quite new, our linkage with the university. I consider that to be really important because I think that chess and the centre of learning work very well together. We did our first one this year. It's been extremely well-reserved, received, and we've already contracted one of the most famous players in the world to lead the 2021 event. And it's not easy to run. There are lots of moving bits to running bodies considered by the chess professionals to be the number one tournament in the world, in which you could say there are about 300 million players, or even more. So, it clearly takes some time. I'm trying to push that, and I'm pushing some of the detail out and trying to consider some of the... It's not going to happen, OK? Let me tell you now, it's not going to happen. Hey, apart from anything else, I love the detail, and I'm right into the detail, and I think that that's not going to happen, and I think that you're right. And I'm in it, and I'm here to stay. So, you know, there we are. Hello, and welcome to Gibraltar, home to the biggest chess festival in the world. We're at the Caleta Hotel where all the magic happens. The morning events and the Gibraltar Masters. Masterclasses, simultaneous displays and seminars by the best in the world. Blitz events for some fast and furious chess, and of course, our most awaited evening, the Battle of the Sexes. So, I played in Gibraltar four times, I came here as a player, and this is my sixth year working for Gibraltar. So, in total, I've been here about ten times as a player, and now as a presenter of the tournament, like an on-site reporter. So, we kind of create content for people who are not able to be here at the festival. Everyone wants to come play here, but everyone can't. So, as a presenter, our role is to give the chess experience to people across the world. How do you get up in the morning? You know, I think when I was playing here, the routine was very set. You get up in the morning, you have breakfast, you prepare, you go and play, but as an on-site reporter, as a presenter, it's a lot more different and a lot more flexible. There are no fixed timings, but because we're doing so many different things and creating so much different content, it just changes day by day. One of the main things that we do is the post-game interviews. So, once the players finish playing, they come to us, we ask them questions about how the game went. Also, Gibraltar is so full in its social calendar that we need to create content around that as well, and that's a big part of this festival. So, it's really no fixed routine, but a lot of work at the same time. So, it's online and also then what we put out in our broadcast is something that gets picked up by news across the world, whether it's print media or it's visual media, and they use that content in their country, especially, for example, I can speak for India because I'm from India. There are so many players who have come from India here, even though it's so far for us, Gibraltar, but because it's the strongest open in the world, just the festival that it is, we have a big delegation coming from India. So, a lot of Indian media picks up our content and then people from India can follow the event. I want to describe Gibraltar because it's such a full, it's not really a tournament, it's a chess festival. It's the strongest open in the world. You've got players, Gibraltar is far for most of the world, but still, despite that, you have players from across the world coming to play in this, well, kind of a small city, but it's a place which has become home for the chess world, like a capital city because it's hosting the biggest chess festival in the world. And I think what makes it even more special is that every year, there is something new the organizers are doing. If the tournament gets stronger, the prize money gets higher, there are more strong players coming into play, the younger players are making their next step in their career in this tournament. And if I have to say as a player and a presenter what makes Gibraltar Chess unique, it is definitely, yes, the tournament, which is at the core, the Gibraltar Masters, but it's the social calendar. There is no tournament in the world that offers masterclasses by the best in the world. The Battle of the Sexes event, our Blitz tournaments, there is so much going on. It's not a tournament, it's a chess festival. Okay, so my name is Fiona Stylantini, I'm one of the two commentators here alongside. I'm David Hall, nice to meet you. And so we are here, the two commentators for the 2020 edition of the Gibraltar International Chess Festival. So every day for between five to six hours, we talk about the games that are ongoing live and we explain all the action to the people watching us on the internet from all over the world. That's right, we talk about the chess, we try and analyse the players' thoughts, what they would be thinking during the games. We sometimes get the players in with us afterwards and have a little chat with them. Yeah, several. David is actually the chess expert, so he's one of the very best players in England. It's actually his debut doing commentary at that level. He has played here many times before, he has finished in second place. Long time ago. And I try to do a bit more the social side of things. So for example, we have a chat on Twitch, so I try to keep an eye on what people say, what their feedback is, what their questions are. And so it's a very interactive show, I would say. And I also have to give a big shout out to because it's not just us making the show, we're just here in front of the camera, but we have a great team from Hammond producing the show. And I think this year it's really been a big step up. I've worked many tournaments, but this setting is absolutely top-top quality and world-leading in that domain. That's right. I mean, you see nothing like this in the chess world. There are commentary teams, but nothing as professional. For my first time, it's great to work with such an incredible team. And yourself, of course. It's definitely a beauty and the beast, kind of pairing, I think, here in the studio. I don't think that's true, but it's great. We work together because this is what we do here. Well, this is our job for these two weeks, but we're also great friends besides chess. I think we have a lot of fun doing what we do. And yeah, it's just, well, we're hired to do this, but it's also great fun. We get to talk about the game we love, so it's just a bonus to be here. And hopefully everyone at home enjoys it too. Absolutely. Over the years, obviously, this is the eighth edition, so we've done it for 18 years. I think the effect has been absolutely incredible, not only for a visitor, a participant, and the four tourists and visitors point of view. Today we have some 420 participants in this event. They're coming to Gibraltar for 11 or 12 nights, so the impact of that is probably short of the largest tour operator production in Gibraltar for a year. So this festival produced the same number of guest nights in two weeks than the largest tour operator producing the Olia or something similar to that. Apart from that, I think the impact has been great from an educational point of view, which has now taught in all our schools and children. We have some 120 Gibraltarian pupils that they will participate to the weekend event at the end of this tournament. I think it's put Gibraltar on the map tremendously internationally, and I think we're proud to be associated with what is described by others, one of the best openings in the world. When you say 18 years, you must have learnt a lot of lessons along the way. Absolutely, and hard ones too. Yes, of course, it's quite fascinating because in our industry, in hotels, very rarely happens that the hotel revolved entirely and every guest in the hotel is actually associated with a particular event or participated in a particular event and creates certain challenges and differences to what normally we're all about. All your guests are doing the same thing at the same time, which is very unusual in a hotel. So over the years, certainly there have been few lessons that they've been learnt. I think the team now done it a few times, so things are much easier, but I remember the days where room service was a tragedy because half an hour before the master tournament started at 3 o'clock, we would end up with 70 or 80 room service order, everybody was doing the same thing at the same time. And of course, you've got, if I can say, two separate teams, one of them is the hotel team and the other one is the chess team. Correct. So how important have they worked together? It's paramount and obviously we are the link in between those teams. I say we as myself and the organiser, but there are some 30 professionals that they travel to Gibraltar now working in the background to make sure these events take place between a arbiter and secretariat and broadcasting team and social media and so on and so forth. And then we have obviously the hotel operational team and to merge the two and make them work together, it's quite a challenge. I think we do it to the best of our ability with tremendous difficulties these days because the numbers are such and pressure around the hotel, it's incredible. This year we will have a closing dinner for 430 people. Your grand finale is an important one. It's an important one. We will be in the presence of a few ministers. We will have a visit of the president of FIDE that is specifically coming to attend the dinner, etc. And those are numbers that are very difficult and present a lot of challenges anywhere in the world, and in Gibraltar within our own limitation to serve 430 people at the same time. It's not easy. So yeah, we're looking forward to the challenge but I'll let you know how it goes on the 31st.