Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I te Paenga-whāwhā 2012, i eke a Leko ki 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 i te wikitoria ki te toa o te whakataetae Caruana, i whai ake i te 51⁄2/10 i te 40th Chess Olympiad
, i tū ki Istanbul.