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The First FIDE Grand Prix is taking place from September 21 to October 3rd in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, London. The games start at 14:00h local time (= 15:00h CEST, 17:00h Moscow, 09:00 a.m. New York). The tournament has a prize fund of 240,000 Euros.
Congratulations: AGON CEO and organiser Andrew Paulson and FIDE President
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov before the start of round one
The playing hall in in Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Round 1 on 2012/09/21
at 14:00 |
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Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | ½-½ |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | 0-1 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 | ½-½ |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | ½-½ |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Wang Hao | 2742 | ½-½ |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | ½-½ |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Topalov pretends to be shocked at Ilyumzhinov's choice of first
move for him in his
game against Grischuk at the ceremonial opening of round one (he did play 1.Nf3)
Topalov-Grischuk: Two of the craziest players of the tournament played a pretty cool game. A Maroczy Bind that seemed it was going to be long and torturously boring quickly turned into a tactical melee. Topalov sacrificed a pawn to open up lines and take advantage of a misplaced knight on a6. Grischuk sacrificed this knight to obtain a bunch of pawns, and at the end held without difficulties since Topalov only had one pawn left. Draw.
Kasimdzhanov-Leko: Two of the most solid players of the tournament played a (gasp) surprisingly solid game. As with many of Leko’s games, most of the interesting part lies in the analysis and preparation, which could potentially be very wild and crazy and interesting. But the opponents don’t want to go for this when they are not in familiar water. Indeed against Kasimdzhanov Leko had great prep and uncorked the novelty 14… c6!, which creates mayhem in some lines. But Kasimdzhanov settled for the slightest of edges and Leko held without difficulties. Draw.
Dominguez-Giri: After getting into severe and unnecessary time pressure Dominguez was forced to relinquish a couple of pawns. However Giri’s structure was so terrible that even down two pawns Dominguez seemed like he could hold, which in the end he did. Draw.
Wang Hao-Adams: Wang Hao got the worse end of a Nimzo-Indian, in which Adams showed great knowledge. After obtaining a better endgame in which White was saddled with weaknesses, Adams pressed and pressed and pressed... but the advantage was just not great enough, and the Chinese scraped a draw. The game came down to a nice stalemate resource, which every strong player should know. Draw.
Mamedyarov-Ivanchuk: Mamedyarov failed to develop and achieve some positional pressure. Ivanchuk sacrificed a pawn to open the position. He soon regained it and got another one on top of that. However the position by then was very simplified, and although he tried for many moves, the knight and two pawns endgame against knight and one pawn was simply impossible to win. The Azeri held. Draw.
Round 1 on 2012/09/21
at 14:00 |
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Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | ½-½ |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | 0-1 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 | ½-½ |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | ½-½ |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Wang Hao | 2742 | ½-½ |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | ½-½ |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Round 2 on 2012/09/22
at 14:00 |
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Leko Peter | 2737 | - |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Adams Michael | 2722 | - |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 |
Giri Anish | 2730 | - |
Wang Hao | 2742 |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 | - |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 | - |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | - |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 |
Round 3 on 2012/09/23
at 14:00 |
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Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | - |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 | - |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | - |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Wang Hao | 2742 | - |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | - |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 | - |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Round 4 on 2012/09/24
at 14:00 |
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Leko Peter | 2737 | - |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Giri Anish | 2730 | - |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 | - |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 | - |
Wang Hao | 2742 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | - |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | - |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 |
Round 5 on 2012/09/25
at 14:00 |
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Topalov Veselin | 2752 | - |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | - |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 |
Wang Hao | 2742 | - |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | - |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 | - |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Adams Michael | 2722 | - |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Round 6 on 2012/09/27
at 14:00 |
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Leko Peter | 2737 | - |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 | - |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 | - |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | - |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | - |
Wang Hao | 2742 |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 | - |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 |
Round 7 on 2012/09/28
at 14:00 |
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Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | - |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Wang Hao | 2742 | - |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | - |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 | - |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 |
Adams Michael | 2722 | - |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Giri Anish | 2730 | - |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Round 8 on 2012/09/29
at 14:00 |
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Leko Peter | 2737 | - |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 | - |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | - |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | - |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 | - |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | - |
Wang Hao | 2742 |
Round 9 on 2012/10/01
at 14:00 |
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Wang Hao | 2742 | - |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | - |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 | - |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 |
Adams Michael | 2722 | - |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 |
Giri Anish | 2730 | - |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 | - |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Round 10 on 2012/10/02
at 14:00 |
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Leko Peter | 2737 | - |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 | - |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 | - |
Giri Anish | 2730 |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 | - |
Adams Michael | 2722 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 | - |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 |
Wang Hao | 2742 | - |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 |
Round 11 on 2012/10/03 at 11:00 |
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2729 | - |
Leko Peter | 2737 |
Ivanchuk Vassily | 2769 | - |
Wang Hao | 2742 |
Adams Michael | 2722 | - |
Dominguez Perez Leinier | 2725 |
Giri Anish | 2730 | - |
Topalov Veselin | 2752 |
Grischuk Alexander | 2754 | - |
Nakamura Hikaru | 2783 |
Gelfand Boris | 2738 | - |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam | 2684 |
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