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FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent 2012 (8)

Caruana and Karjakin lead going into second Tashkent rest day

Peter Leko was the only winner in Round 8. Photo ©

Peter Leko was the only winner in Round 8. Photo © | http://tashkent2012.fide.com

Fabiano Caruana and Sergey Karjakin drew their round 8 game and share the lead of the Tashkent FIDE Grand Prix on 5/8 going into what was clearly a badly needed second rest day for the players. Caruana-Karjakin was a well played but not terribly thrilling Open Catalan. The only decisive game of the day saw Gata Kamsky play a rather lame variation of the Rubinstein Nimzo-Indian and was gradually outplayed by Peter Leko. (Kamsky thought that his 13.b4 was almost the decisive mistake and it took him some time to realise this) Mamedyarov-Ponomariov was an interesting topical variation of the QGA. Gelfand-Dominguez, Svidler-Kasimdzhanov and Morozevich-Wang were all drawn. Round 9 Sunday.

FIDE GP Tashkent Tashkent UZB (UZB), 22 xi-4 xii 2012 cat. XX (2747)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
1. Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2775 * ½ . ½ ½ 1 . ½ ½ . ½ 1 5 2836
2. Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2786 ½ * ½ . . 0 ½ ½ . 1 1 1 5 2846
3. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2764 . ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 . ½ ½ . 2788
4. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2696 ½ . ½ * ½ . ½ ½ 1 . ½ ½ 2791
5. Leko, Peter g HUN 2732 ½ . ½ ½ * . ½ . ½ ½ 1 ½ 2787
6. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2748 0 1 ½ . . * 0 . ½ ½ 1 1 2798
7. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2741 . ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 ½ ½ . . 4 2745
8. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2747 ½ ½ 0 ½ . . 1 * ½ ½ . ½ 4 2747
9. Wang, Hao g CHN 2737 ½ . . 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * . 1 ½ 4 2740
10. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2751 . 0 ½ . ½ ½ ½ ½ . * 0 ½ 3 2663
11. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2762 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 . . 0 1 * . 2607
12. Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2726 0 0 . ½ ½ 0 . ½ ½ ½ . * 2605
Round 8 (November 30, 2012)
Caruana, Fabiano - Karjakin, Sergey ½-½ 36 E06 Catalan
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Ponomariov, Ruslan ½-½ 25 D20 QGA
Morozevich, Alexander - Wang, Hao ½-½ 41 D10 Slav Defence
Svidler, Peter - Kasimdzhanov, Rustam ½-½ 34 A07 Barcza System
Gelfand, Boris - Dominguez Perez, Leinier ½-½ 40 E97 King's Indian Classical
Kamsky, Gata - Leko, Peter 0-1 48 E55 Nimzo Indian

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