
The second stage of the 2012-2013 FIDE Grand Prix Series is taking place from
November 21 to December 5th in the Gallery of Fine Art in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The games start at 14:00h
local time (= 10:00h CET, 13:00h Moscow, 04:00 a.m. New York). The tournament
has a prize fund of 240,000 Euros.
Round seven report
Round 7 on Thursday
29.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
½-½ |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
½-½ |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
0-1 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
1-0 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
½-½ |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
½-½ |
Leko Peter |
2732 |

Karjakin-Morozevich 1-0: Alexander Morozevich surprised his
opponent in the opening as he chose a rare line in the Scheveningen Sicilian.
Sergey Karjakin could not remember his analysis, and after 14.Bf3 Bc6 Black
managed to equalize the position. In the rook endgame White continued to play
on in an objectively drawish endgame and after six hours of play Morozevich
blundered on move 52. After the following forced line Black ended up with a
lost position.
Commentary by GM Alejandro Ramirez

[Event "FIDE Grand Prix-Tashkent 2012"] [Site "Tashkent"] [Date "2012.11.29"]
[Round "7"] [White "Karjakin, Sergey"] [Black "Morozevich, Alexander"] [Result
"1-0"] [ECO "B85"] [WhiteElo "2775"] [BlackElo "2748"] [Annotator "Ramirez,Alejandro"]
[PlyCount "135"] [EventDate "2012.??.??"] [EventCountry "UZB"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3
e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Be2 (7. Qd2 Nf6 8. O-O-O Be7
9. f3 {was how Karjakin played against Moro in 2009. This game resulted in a
a pretty demolition of the Black kingside, but I suppose that today Sergey was
looking for a quieter approach.}) 7... Nf6 8. O-O Be7 9. f4 d6 10. a4 O-O 11.
Kh1 {The Scheveningen setup has been tried time and time again. Of course the
most famous example of it is during the 80's KK matches, in which Kasparov came
up with many brilliant ideas for the black side.} Nxd4 $5 {Already unusual,
this move is supposed to be inferior.} (11... Re8 {is the main line, after which
White has many options including the daring 12. a5!? sacrifice.}) 12. Qxd4 Bd7
13. e5 {maybe this advance, though natural, is somewhat premature.} Ne8 14.
Bf3 Bc6 15. Qb6 Bxf3 16. Rxf3 {Black's only issue in the position is the placement
of his e8 knight. Once he solves that, he would enjoy the better pawn structure
and good strategical prospects in any endgame.} Rc8 17. a5 Qc6 18. Na4 f6 $1
{Forcing the issue on the center, and allowing the black knight to come back
into play.} 19. exd6 Nxd6 20. Qxc6 Rxc6 21. Bc5 Re8 (21... Kf7 $1 $15 {seemed
like a better way to do the exact same thing: defend the e7 bishop.}) 22. Rd1
Ne4 23. Bxe7 Rxe7 24. c3 e5 25. Kg1 exf4 26. Rxf4 {Let this be a lesson to those
youngsters that think that endgames are not important and that it is easy to
draw equal endgames. Though no side has a pull in this position, the endgame
is far from dead, and Karjakin proves this swiftly.} g6 27. Rf3 f5 28. Rfd3
Nc5 29. Nxc5 Rxc5 30. Rd5 Rxd5 31. Rxd5 Kf7 32. Rd6 Kg7 {very strange} (32...
Re6 {was better}) 33. Kf2 Kh6 34. Kf3 Kh5 {Perhaps Morozevich is too creative
for his own good. The last few moves have been bizarre at best. The king is
doing little on h5 and now White commences a bind on the queenside.} 35. Rb6
$1 Kg5 36. g3 Rc7 37. h3 Rd7 38. c4 Rd3+ 39. Kf2 Rd7 (39... f4 40. gxf4+ Kxf4
41. Rxb7 Rxh3 42. c5 Ke5 {was still holdable.} ) 40. Ke3 Re7+ 41. Kf3 Rc7 42.
b3 Kh5 43. Kf4 {Black keeps getting pushed back. He has missed his opportunities
to create counterplay and now the passive defense is most unpleasant.} Rf7 44.
Kf3 g5 45. b4 g4+ 46. hxg4+ fxg4+ 47. Ke4 Kg5 48. b5 {The creation of a passed
pawn on the queenside puts Morozevich in serious problems. His counterplay on
the kingside is not fast or effective enough.} axb5 49. cxb5 h5 50. a6 Re7+
51. Kd3 $1 {An awesome move. Let's understand why this move and not any other.}
(51. Kd5 bxa6 52. bxa6 h4 $1 {and Black's counterplay is obviously sufficient.}
(52... Re3 $5 $11)) (51. Kd4 bxa6 52. bxa6 h4 53. Rb5+ Kh6 54. Ra5 hxg3 $11
55. a7 $4 g2 {and black wins because he queens with check!}) 51... Rd7+ $1 {A
good check, White should retreat back to g2 for shelter, but it seems unlikely
that that will give him the victory. Karjakin pushes forward.} (51... bxa6 52.
bxa6 h4 53. Rb5+ Kh6 54. Ra5 hxg3 55. a7 g2 56. a8=Q g1=Q 57. Qf8+ {gets Black
mated quickly.}) 52. Kc4 (52. Ke3 $5 bxa6 53. bxa6 Re7+ 54. Kf2 Rf7+ 55. Kg2
Ra7 (55... Rf5 56. a7 Ra5 57. Rb5+ $18) (55... Kf5 56. Rb5+ Ke4 57. Rxh5 Ra7
58. Ra5 {And since the king can be pushed back I believe White is wining.})
56. Rb5+ Kh6 57. Ra5 Kg6 58. Kf2 Kf7 59. Ke3 Kg6 60. Kd4 Kh6 61. Kd3 Kg6 $11
{As soon as White crosses to the c-file Black sacrifices with h4.}) 52... Rc7+
$4 {A blunder that is refuted beautifully. Moro still could've held the draw
with...} (52... bxa6 53. bxa6 Ra7 $1 54. Rb5+ Kh6 55. Ra5 h4 $1 56. gxh4 g3
{and the draw is obvious.} 57. Kb5 g2 58. Ra1 Kh5 59. Rg1 Rg7 $1 $11) 53. Rc6
$3 $18 {A bolt from the blue. Of course if Moro has seen his move he would never
have played Rc7+. Now it's all over as the rook is quite obviously taboo, but
it cannot be left alone either.} bxc6 (53... Re7 54. Rc5+ Kf6 55. a7 {is obviously
kaput.}) 54. b6 Rc8 55. b7 Rb8 56. Kc5 $1 {a pinch of precision.} h4 57. a7
Rxb7 58. a8=Q Rh7 59. Qg8+ Kh6 60. gxh4 Rg7 61. Qh8+ Kg6 62. h5+ Kf7 63. h6
Rg5+ 64. Kd6 g3 65. Qh7+ Kf6 66. Qe7+ Kf5 67. Qxg5+ {a simple tactic to finish
the game off, but of course every other move was winning.} Kxg5 68. h7 {Morozevich
showed his rook endgame class against Caruana earlier in this tournament. This
time, he is in the wrong side of a painful defense, and when he almost reaches
his goal a painful blunder shatters his tournament lead.} 1-0

Ups and downs: mercurial GM Alexander Morozevich

Persistency pays: Sergey Karjakin of Russia (formerly Ukraine)

Down in the dumps: GM Leinier Dominguez from Cuba
Dominguez-Caruana 0-1: Fabiano Caruana decided to surprise
his opponent right from the first move and played 1…d5, which he has never used
in his practice before. Leinier repeated the line from his game against Judit
Polgar but Black didn’t have problems to equalize the position and got comfortable
play. As the Italian player pointed out during the press conference the idea
behind his move 12…c5 is to play 13…Nbd7 after White's logical move 13.Ne5.
The endgame turned to be more pleasant for Black but Fabiano believes White
had “a solid enough position to keep the balance”. After the inaccurate 31.c4
Black got an extra pawn and started to increase his advantage. Leiner didn’t
defend in the most precise way and passed a-pawn became unstoppable.

Top seed and tournament leader Fabiano Caruana

Kasimdzhanov-Leko 1/2-1/2: Rustam Kasimdzhanov expected the
Ruy Lopez today. Peter Leko managed to surprise him with 9…d6, as nowadays 9…d5
seems to be a more popular move. White's 20.c4!? prevented Black’s idea to play
d5 directly, and after 23.c5 the former FIDE world champion got a position with
a long-playing advantage. Under time trouble Black arranged some counterplay
and the opponents finished the game after a threefold repetition.
“Maybe it was not the best decision to force a draw in the final position,
but I’ve lost enough games in time trouble blundering something on the 40th
move”, Rustam said in the press conference.
Press officer Anastasiya Karlovich interviews Ruslan Ponomariov and Boris
Gelfand
Ponomariov-Gelfand 1/2-1/2: Ruslan Ponomariov was repeating
the game Caruana-Gelfand until move seven, but preferred 7.c3 to Fabiano's 7.d3.
One critical moment appeared after 15.Bc3. As Boris Gelfand put it during the
press conference he wanted to play 15…e5 and d6, but unfortunately White has
the tactical reply 16.Be5 Ne5 17.d4, so he went for 15…d5 instead. After a few
exchanges Black equalized the position. When opponents play so solidly then
it’s not easy to find any improvement for either side.

Peter Svidler, Wang Hao analysing in the press conference with Anastasiya
Karlovich
Wang Hao-Peter Svidler 1/2-1/2: An Anti-Gruenfeld was seen
in the game. Peter Svidler was not sure about his 10…c6, as after 11.Ng5 Bg4
White 12.Be2 improves on the game Gelfand-Svidler, where Boris Gelfand played
12.f3. Nevertheless, Wang Hao didn’t manage to create difficulties for Black
and after 32 moves the game was drawn.

Mamedyarov-Kamsky 1/2-1/2: The Slav Defence with 4.e3 g6 happened
in the game, and after 15.f4 Black preferred to immediately play 15…dxc4, avoiding
White's possible c5. The forced line transformed the game into to an ending
which objectively should be about equal. Gata Kamsky decided to continue playing
the risk free rook ending, and Shakhriyar had to defend precisely. Both players
missed the winning chance for Black after the inaccurate 58.Rg6. After 58…Re4
and following f4-f3 Black could simply win the game.

[Event "FIDE GP Tashkent"] [Site "Tashkent UZB"] [Date "2012.11.29"] [Round
"7.4"] [White "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"] [Black "Kamsky, Gata"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D94"] [WhiteElo "2764"] [BlackElo "2762"] [PlyCount "139"] [EventDate
"2012.11.22"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Bd3 O-O 7.
O-O Bg4 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 e6 10. b3 Re8 11. Bb2 Nbd7 12. Qe2 a6 13. Rac1 Rc8
14. Rfd1 Qc7 15. f4 dxc4 16. Bxc4 b5 17. Bd3 Qa7 18. Ne4 Nxe4 19. Bxe4 c5 20.
dxc5 Nxc5 21. Bf3 Bxb2 22. Qxb2 Ne4 23. Rd4 Ng3 24. Kf2 Nf5 25. Rxc8 Rxc8 26.
Rd3 Qe7 27. Qd2 h5 28. g3 e5 29. Rd7 Qf6 30. Be4 exf4 31. exf4 Kg7 32. Kg2 Qe6
33. Bxf5 Qxf5 34. Rd3 Qe4+ 35. Kh2 b4 36. h4 a5 37. Qb2+ Kg8 38. Rd2 Rc3 39.
Rg2 Kg7 40. Qd2 Rd3 41. Qb2+ Kh7 42. Qf6 Qd5 43. Qg5 Kg7 44. Re2 Rd1 45. Qxd5
Rxd5 46. Kh3 Kf6 47. Rc2 Kf5 48. Rc4 Rd1 49. Rc5+ Ke4 50. Rxa5 Kf3 51. Kh2 Rd2+
52. Kh3 f5 53. Ra6 Rg2 54. Rxg6 Kf2 55. Rc6 Rxg3+ 56. Kh2 Rg4 57. Kh3 Rxf4 {[#]}
58. Rg6 $2 Rf3+ (58... Rf3+ 59. Kh2 f4 {and Black wins, e.g.} 60. Rf6 Kf1 61.
Rg6 Rf2+ 62. Kh1 Re2 63. Rf6 Re4 64. Rf5 Kf2 65. Rxh5 f3 66. Rh8 Kg3 67. Rg8+
Rg4) 59. Kh2 Ke3 60. Rg5 Kf4 61. Rxh5 Rf2+ 62. Kh3 Rxa2 63. Rg5 Rc2 64. Rg7
Rc3+ 65. Kg2 Rxb3 66. h5 Rb2+ 67. Kh3 Rb3+ 68. Kg2 Rb2+ 69. Kh3 Rb3+ 70. Kg2
1/2-1/2
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Standings after seven rounds

Summaries from the official web site, photos by Anastasiya
Karlovich
Schedule and results
Round 1 on Thursday
22.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
1-0 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
½-½ |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
½-½ |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
½-½ |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
½-½ |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
0-1 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
Round 2 on Friday,
23.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
½-½ |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
½-½ |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
½-½ |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
½-½ |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
½-½ |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
1-0 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
Round 3 on Saturday
24.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
1-0 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
½-½ |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
1-0 |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
½-½ |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
½-½ |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
½-½ |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
Round 4 on Sunday
25.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
0-1 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
½-½ |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
½-½ |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
1-0 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
½-½ |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
1-0 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
Round 5 on Tuesday
27.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
0-1 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
½-½ |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
1-0 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
½-½ |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
½-½ |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
0-1 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
Round 6 on Wednesday
28.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
½-½ |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
½-½ |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
½-½ |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
1-0 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
½-½ |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
½-½ |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
Round 7 on Thursday
29.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
½-½ |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
½-½ |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
0-1 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
1-0 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
½-½ |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
½-½ |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
Round 8 on Friday
30.11.2012 at 14:00 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
- |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
- |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
- |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
- |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
- |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
- |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
Round 9 on Sunday
2.12.2012 at 14:00 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
- |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
- |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
- |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
- |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
- |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
- |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Round 10 on Monday
3.12.2012 at 14:00 |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
- |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
- |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
- |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
- |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
- |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
- |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
Round 11 on Tuesday 4.12.2012 at 12:00 |
Dominguez Perez Leinier |
2726 |
- |
Kamsky Gata |
2762 |
Karjakin Sergey |
2775 |
- |
Ponomariov Ruslan |
2741 |
Wang Hao |
2737 |
- |
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
2764 |
Kasimdzhanov Rustam |
2696 |
- |
Gelfand Boris |
2751 |
Leko Peter |
2732 |
- |
Caruana Fabiano |
2786 |
Svidler Peter |
2747 |
- |
Morozevich Alexander |
2748 |
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