Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Paenga-whāwhā 2012, i eke a Leko i te 4/6 mo te kapa SHSM-64 o Moscow i te Russian Team Championships, ka tu tuarua me te 5/7 i te Sigeman & Co Tournament, he hawhe tohu kei muri o Fabiano Caruana. I Dortmund, i tohatoha a Leko i te tuatoru o nga waahi me Kramnik, Naiditsch me Ruslan Ponomariov, i eke ki te 51⁄2/9 me te ngaro noa i te wikitoria ki te toa o te whakataetae Caruana, i whai ake i te 51⁄2/10 i te
Ko te 40th Chess Olympiad, i whakahaerehia i Istanbul.