Baku Round 12

This has possibly been the oddest round thus far. The twelth round ended with 7 hard fought games, and five of them were decisive! And three or four yeilded very surprising results.

Carlsen vs Adams 1-0 No surprise here, as Carlsen has scored +3 versus Adams. This game got intense and complicated soon.

Radjabov vs Navara 0-1 Lowest rated player defeats third seed with Black... Enough said.

Gashimov vs Grischuk 1-0 This must be Gashimov's greatest tournament as he just toppled the current leader (Grischuk) to get into a tie for the lead with Yue, who drew.

Cheparinov vs Karjakin 1/2-1/2 The only surprise is that they actually drew, as neither of these players has been playing up to par in this tournament, or drawing a lot of games.

Mamedyarov vs Bacrot 1-0 My favourite game where a material imbalance resulted in a lovely endgame win for White. And it wasn't a surprise.

Kamsky vs Svilder 0-1 Perhaps this shouldn't be called an upset as Svidler rating tops Kamsky by quite a bit, but Kamsky has been on fire lately (with the exception of some early rounds in this tournament) and Svilder... has not.

 Inarkiev vs Yue 1/2-1/2 And Yue remains in the lead going into the last round.