 David a nice win with the white pieces Against the French you decided to go for the exchange French. What happened? So first time in my life. I played e takes d5 on move three against the French Basically, I couldn't decide what to do. He's very very well prepared. He likes his unbalanced position So I thought I'll make it as dull as possible and hopefully I'll play him later and it seemed to work I mean, that's always the danger. It might just Peter out to a draw But okay, I thought he's a pretty strong player, you know, I don't want to take any risks and It was a good day. Yeah, it's a pretty interesting strategy to study your opponent's games And then sort of see the kind of positions he doesn't like and then decide your openings based on that Yeah, I've been doing this since I was young, but the problem is nowadays everyone's so universal It's impossible to do this, but I mean certain players have certain strengths and weaknesses and I tried to You know, I tried to pick those out. Yeah, and suit myself ideally Now obviously the exchange is not the most dangerous line for black in the French. What went wrong for him? I think he was just too slow because I mean in these structures White has I mean, I actually I had a couple of extra tempi at one point I went Queenie say he played Bishop D6 Queenie to check Bishop E7 and I gained some time and Yeah, it's all about Tempe if he was just slightly quicker He could have I think he had one chance to equalize a bit earlier on but he just assumed that with the Symmetrical pawn structure. He'd be okay. Yeah, so it's all about timing. So in the end it all went pretty Wrong pretty quickly for him. Yeah, I mean it I thought I was checkmating him But then suddenly after a couple of tactics, I wanted some endgame and I think he was just happy to get the Queens off But he didn't realize how bad that game was. So I mean we were both short of time a bit panicky, but Not our finest moment, but no Halfway mark at the trade vice Gibraltar chess festival you're on four and a half out of five No reasons to complain. No, I didn't expect it. I felt quite tired coming into the event And I mean this is my last tournament before big break. So I thought just relax and not prepare, you know That's one playing exchange French But it's going okay. We'll see long way to go. Is it one of those things where you if you actually have a great tournament Then the break never happens Probably it'll be a nice dilemma to have the it would we'll see Right now tonight is also the big night the real reason why you come back here Back here to jib the battle of the sexes. Yeah, I can't wait Actually as soon as I finished my game Nigel came up to me said you in and until that I didn't know I was playing but yeah I can't wait. Can't wait. So the highlight of my tournament for sure. It's quite interesting I mean Nigel and you have this dynamic relationship to put it politely and still he always wants you in his team we hate each other, but we love each other and That's we've been teammates for years. We know each other too. Well, I think Yeah, it'll be fun. He's a good captain despite his flaws What's the most fun thing about the battle of the sexes? I Don't know it's It's everything. It's just the atmosphere. It's just the fact that we both I mean the men and the women really really want to beat each other just adds a bit of an edge and Yeah, I hope the fans enjoy it too. I hope everyone watching Enjoys it and apparently it's being streamed live this year. So I know a lot of my friends will be watching too So yeah, it's unique. It's unique a bit like what the trade wise your brawl to chest festival is having the strongest women players Fight against strongest men players. Yeah, exactly. I'm always scared to play Women players because I mean, that's so dangerous and there's so many of them here, which is great to see I mean, I really want to encourage women's chess in England And I mean, hopefully one look at this tournament will encourage younger girls to play So no, it's a good thing for sure great to hear that and we wish you all the best for the battle of the sexes Cuz you're gonna need it