This was Boris Gelfand's last chance to make something happen with the white pieces, but while he had been achieving success in his two previous white games he didn't get anything this time. Champion Viswanathan Anand varied from game 9 with the rare 8...Bd7, which came as a big surprise to Gelfand, who spent 38 minutes on his reply. After 9.a3 Ba5 10.Qe2 Bc6 11.Rd1 Anand produced the novelty 11...Bxc3, and a few moves later the players reached a middlegame where White's hanging pawns were under serious pressure. Given the time situation, Gelfand found it prudent to look for a safe way out, and he succeeded in doing so. The game only went 24 moves, but the challenger was already down to 14 minutes for the next 16 moves.
So the final classical game of the 2012 World Championship match will come on Monday, after another rest day, and if that game is also drawn they'll go to rapid and (if necessary) blitz tiebreaks on Wednesday, after another rest day.
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