| Turnering | datoen | Σ | Vinder |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72. armenske mesterskab | 11-22 januar | elleve | Petrosyan, Tigran L. |
| Wijk aan Zee 2012 | 14-29 januar | fjorten | Aronian, Levon |
| EM 2012 | 19. marts - 1. april | Yakovenko, Dmitry | |
| VM-kamp 2012 | 10-30 maj | 2 | Viswanathan Anand |
| Tal Memorial 2012 | 7-18 juni | ti | Carlsen, Magnus |
| Dortmund 2012 | 13-22 juli | ti | Caruana, Fabiano |
| Biel 2012 | 23-28 juli | 6 | Wang Hao |
| Fransk mesterskab 2012 | 13-24 august | 12 | Edouard, Romain Bacrot, Etienne Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime Bauer, Christian |
| Grand Prix London 2012 | 20. september - 4. oktober | 12 | |
| Bilbao 2012 | 24. september - 13. oktober | 6 | Carlsen, Magnus |
| Poikovsky 2012 | 1-8 oktober | ti | Yakovenko, Dmitry |
| Grand Prix Tashkent 2012 | 21. november - 5. december | 12 |
| Turnering | datoen | Σ | Vinder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skak Olympiade 2012 | 27. august - 10. september | 157 | Armenien |
| Kvinders skak Olympiade 2012 | 27. august - 10. september | 125 | Rusland |
| skakspiller | Land | 01.2012 | 03.2012 | 05.2012 | 07.2012 | 08.2012 | 09.2012 | 10.2012 | 11.2012 | 12.2012 |
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| Carlsen, Magnus | Norge | 2835 | 2835 | 2835 | 2837 | 2837 | 2843 | 2843 | 2848 | 2848 |
| Aronian, Levon | Armenien | 2805 | 2820 | 2825 | 2816 | 2816 | 2816 | 2821 | 2815 | 2815 |
| Kramnik, Vladimir | Rusland | 2801 | 2801 | 2801 | 2799 | 2797 | 2797 | 2795 | 2795 | 2795 |
| Anand, Viswanathan | Indien | 2799 | 2799 | 2791 | 2780 | 2780 | 2780 | 2780 | 2775 | 2775 |
| Radjabov, Teymur | Aserbajdsjan | 2773 | 2784 | 2784 | 2788 | 2788 | 2788 | 2792 | 2793 | 2793 |
| Topalov, Veselin | Bulgarien | 2770 | 2769 | 2771 | ||||||
| Karyakin, Sergey | Rusland | 2769 | 2766 | 2779 | 2779 | 2785 | 2778 | 2780 | 2775 | 2775 |
| Ivanchuk, Vasily | Ukraine | 2766 | 2764 | 2764 | 2769 | 2769 | 2769 | 2771 | 2766 | |
| Morozevich, Alexander | Rusland | 2763 | 2765 | 2769 | 2770 | 2770 | 2758 | 2758 | ||
| Gashimov, Vugar | Aserbajdsjan | 2761 | ||||||||
| Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2771 | 2775 | 2778 | 2778 | 2783 | 2786 | |||
| Caruana, Fabiano | Italien | 2767 | 2770 | 2775 | 2773 | 2773 | 2772 | 2786 | 2782 | |
| Grischuk, Alexander | Rusland | 2764 | 2764 | |||||||
| Mamedyarov, Shahriyar | Aserbajdsjan | 2764 | 2764 |
| skakspiller | Land |
|---|---|
| Arnold, Mark | USA |
| Bacalhao Alonso, Usnel | Cuba |
| Bulsky, Krzysztof | Polen |
| Suri, Vaibhav | Indien |
| Marani Rajedran Venkatesh | Indien |
| Gabuzyan, Hovhannes | Armenien |
| Gozzoli, Yannick | Frankrig |
| Gorovykh, Edward | Rusland |
| Grover, Sahaj | Indien |
| Domogaev, Sergei | Rusland |
| Kremer, Martin | Tyskland |
| Christiansen, Jens | Danmark |
| Cruz Sanchez, Kristian | Peru |
| Krylov, Mikhail | Rusland |
| Lalit, Babu | Indien |
| Milov, Leonid | Tyskland |
| Muzychuk, Anna | Slovenien |
| Munoz Pantoja, Miguel | Spanien |
| Neikshans, Arthur | Letland |
| Ninov, Nikolaj | Bulgarien |
| Onischuk, Vladimir | Ukraine |
| Paichadze, Luka | Georgien |
| Perez Mithans, Orelvis | Spanien |
| Perez Ponsa, Federico | Argentina |
| Perun, Katsper | Polen |
| Poso Vera, Sandro | Cuba |
| Preussers, Roeland | Holland |
| Sevillano, Enrico | USA |
| Solleveld, Martin | Holland |
| Stojanovic, Dalibor | Bosnien-Hercegovina |
| Tomczak, Jacek | Polen |
| Ushenina, Anna | Ukraine |
| Holt, Conrad | USA |
| Hushenbet, Niklas | Tyskland |
| Tsegmidiyin Batchuluun | Mongoliet |
| Chernushevich, Alexey | Frankrig |
| Shebenik, Matey | Slovenien |
| Yilmaz, Mustafa | Kalkun |
| Kina |
| skakspiller | Hvor | Hvor |
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| David, Alberto | Luxembourg | Italien |
| Gareev, Timur | Usbekistan | USA |
| Ipatov, Alexander | Spanien | Kalkun |
| Korneev, Oleg | Rusland | Spanien |
| Moskalenko, Viktor | Ukraine | Spanien |
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