 Liam, you're on three out of four. Two wins, two draws. Are you satisfied with the way the tournament is going? Yeah, I think I'm playing okay The two draws, I didn't really have any chances to do more so I think it's a logical result, but I guess I should try to be more aggressive and play more ambitiously if I want to try to get a high ranking for this tournament It's very important in these open tournaments to take risks and to play more ambitiously like you're saying Is that something that you want to adapt in the future games and change your style perhaps? Yeah, definitely for example, we can see that Hikaru is playing a lot of different openings than he used to when he played elite tournaments So definitely he's taking chances Play many different openings and try to confuse opponents So that's one thing I have to improve for myself of course, and I'm also trying to learn new openings and strategy and Experimenting here and there a little bit, but sometimes things don't always work out in your way So we just have to take what you get and try the best for the next games Absolutely, and do you feel that this style of Hikaru's of playing aggressive chess and taking more chances is the reason why he performs? Well at open tournaments Yeah, I would say he's Specialist in open tournaments. I know he has won G Proud to open three times already, right? so Definitely he has a lot of experience and his playing style and opening repertoire this definitely Helps him with that But you can also see that a lot of the top guys they play basically every openings and They can adapt their style quite well And I think that's one of the things that differentiates them from the rest of the 2700 guys Talking about combative chess your today's game was quite interesting. You sacrificed an exchange Was that preparation or over-the-board inspiration? No, it was not my preparation he surprised me with this point sacrifice with E4 and I Was a little confused with this move I didn't see it before and I thought okay the text E4 is the critical move But looks like he's in his home preparation and it would be risky for me to go there With such complications when he knew all the lies and I don't so I decided to pick another move C5 maybe slightly worse for me, but practically I think it's the smarter choice. So Yeah, I ended up Being an estranged now, but I had some compensation. So I don't think it's too bad for me But definitely he was the one pushing and he could have play on even in the final position But he was low on time and he There was no clear way to make progress and I understand that he didn't want to make to take risk Right now you drew your first round game against a young Indian boy Then you had two nice wins and you drew your game today. Are you happy with the quality of the games? Yeah, as I said in general I am playing Descent chess and I didn't make any big blunder in the last four games. So The two draws my opponent simply plays so well and I didn't have any chances So I think that's logical and we see what happens Right now my last question is you were here a couple of years ago Liam, and now you're back here In the middle, how have you seen this tournament evolve now that you're back here? How has it changed and what's your impressions this time? Yes, always so nice to be in G Proudha. I play here twice before in 2013 and This year very happy to come back and I see that the tournament is growing in all aspects Number of players number of countries represented The quality of organization is always very high and I'm really happy to play in such a strong open tournament and I think it's a perfect opportunity for For all the players especially the young players to have a chance to Improve the skills here. All right. Well, we love having you here and we're looking forward to seeing some fighting chess on your end Thank you for taking out time. Thank you. Thanks