Tashkent R11: Karjakin, Wang and Morozevich share first

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 eleven report

The sixth decisive round provide a tense struggle on all boards.

Sergey Karjakin (above) got a huge advantage, but Ruslan Ponomariov (below) stoically defended it until the end and had some chances to save half a point. After six and a half hours Sergey finally outplayed his opponent to share the first place in Grand Prix.

Commentary by GM Alejandro Ramirez

Rustam Kasimdzhanov chose the Sveshnikov today but...

... Boris Gelfand once again proved to be absolutely ready in this opening and
managed to equalize the position without much trouble.

Shakhriyar Mamedjarov and Wang Hao (above) finished their game after four hours of play. The Chinese player not only outplayed one of the leaders, but got a good theoretical chance for sole victory in the tournament, if Morozevich would lose against Svidler and other players with +1 would fail to win. Wang Hao said at the press-conference he felt he was going to play well in this tournament: “The last period in my life was so difficult, I suffered so much, that I had feeling I deserve some luck.“

However, Alexander Morozevich (above right) made a draw and caught Wang Hao. The game between two Russian players turned to be spectacular, despite the final result. As Peter Svidler mentioned on Twitter: “at least finally there was something to watch on my board. Games vs Alexander Morozevich tend to get watchable at some point, as a rule”.

Peter Leko and Fabiana Caruana made a draw after the long struggle in the
Scandinavian Defence, so Fabiano lost his chance to join the group of winners

Lienier Dominguez succeeded in winning his first game in this e tournament

His opponent Gata Kamsky played a risky game and gave the Cuban a decisive advantage

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Final standings (after eleven rounds)

Summaries from the official web site, photos by Anastasiya Karlovich

The photographers

You have probably noticed that the quality of pictures that have accompanied these reports has been quite extraordinary. They were created by two photographers at the venue in Tashkent, whom we wish to thank for the work they have done.

Anastasiya Karlovich WGM Anastasiya (Nastja) Karlovich was Ukrainian champion and vice-champion among girls under 16, 18 and 20, and European Champion with the Ukrainian team in the Youth Team Championships. She is also a Teacher of Constitutional Law of Foreign Countries, International Law and European Union Law in the National Law Academy of Ukraine; a member of the chess club “Law Academy”; a member of the German club Grosslehna. Anastasiya is one of the organisers of WGM and GM closed tournaments “Cup of Rector”; press officer of international events such as the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Series (Qatar 2011, Russia 2011, China 2011 etc), FIDE Women World Championship Match (Albania, Tirana, 2011), European Women Championship (Gazientep, 2012), FIDE World Championship Match Anand-Gelfand (Moscow 2012), World Chess Olympiad Istanbul, 2012. She was the official photographer from FIDE and CNC during the match Anand-Topalov (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2010) and the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia, 2010). She is also a freelance journalist (reporter and photographer) for the events organized by Turkish Chess Federation (2010–present)

Schedule and results

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