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Armenia extended their lead to two points as their closest rivals drew whilst they beat India 2.5-1.5. Levon Aronian played one of the games of the round when his aggression paid off against Pentala Harikrishna's Lasker Defence to the Queen's Gambit. He launched a kingside attack with an early g4 and even when the queens came off maintained a bind which he turned very quickly into a decisive advantage. The remaining games were drawn.

Aronian,Levon (2805) - Harikrishna,Pentala (2669) [D56]
8th World Teams Ningbo CHN (6), 23.07.2011

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.h4 Nd7 11.g4 e5 12.cxd5 Nxc3 13.Rxc3 cxd5 14.g5 h5 15.Bb5 exd4 16.Qxd4 Qe4 17.Qxe4 dxe4 18.Nd2 Ne5 19.Nxe4 Be6 20.f4 Bd5 21.fxe5 Bxe4 22.0-0 Bd5 23.Bd7 Rfd8 24.Rc7

24...a5 25.a4 Ra6 26.Rf4 Rf8 27.Rd4 Bc6 28.e6 fxe6 29.Bxe6+ Kh8 30.Bf7 Rb6 31.b3 Bf3 32.g6 Rc6 33.Rxc6 bxc6 34.e4 Be2 35.e5 1-0

Russia and Ukraine drew 2-2, the games Karjakin-Ivanchuk, Eljanov-Grischuk, Nepomnichtchi-Efimenko and Moiseenko-Vitiugov were mostly hard fought but there don't seem to have been any clear cut missed chances.

Israel drew 2-2 with Azerbaijan. Emil Sutovsky lost the exchange for a pawn against Teimour Radjabov in a Sicilian and then allowed a mating attack in trying to avoid the exchange of queens. Evgeny Postny leveled the score with a win against Rauf Mamedov in a very lively Czech Benoni where black seemed to have the more threatening position at one stage but eventually white took over the initiative. Tamir Nabaty scored another key result for Israel drawing a very lively struggle with black against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Vugar Gashimov went down to King vs King against Ilya Smirin.

The USA drew 2-2 with Hungary. Kamsky-Leko and Balough-Hess were both drawn without many dramas. Zoltan Almasi won a level heavy piece ending he never should have against Yuri Shulman. Yasser Seirawan crushed Judit Polgar who had to throw in a rook sacrifice to stave off immediate disaster but not the loss. All this on her birthday.

Seirawan,Yasser (2635) - Polgar,Judit (2699) [E32]
8th World Teams Ningbo CHN (6), 23.07.2011

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 d6 7.Bg5 Nbd7 8.e3 b6 9.Ne2 Ba6 10.Qc2 c5 11.dxc5 bxc5 12.Nc3 Qb6 13.0-0-0 Bb7 14.e4 Rab8 15.Rd2 Rfc8 16.Be2 Ne8 17.f4 Nf8 18.Rhd1 f6 19.Bh4 Ng6 20.g3 Rd8 21.Bg4 e5 22.Be6+ Kf8 23.f5 Ne7 24.g4 h6 25.Bf2 Nc6 26.Nd5 Qa5 27.h4 Nd4 28.Bxd4 cxd4 29.g5 Bxd5 30.exd5 hxg5 31.hxg5 fxg5

32.f6 Rxb2 33.Kxb2 Nxf6 34.Ka2 Qc7 35.Rg2 Rc8 36.Bxc8 Qxc8 37.Rxg5 Nxd5 38.Qf5+ Qxf5 39.Rxf5+ Nf6 40.c5 Ke7 41.c6 Nd5 42.Rg1 d3 43.Kb3 Ke6 44.Rfg5 1-0

Egypt are far and away the lowest rated team, and whilst this is good experience for their players it must be tiring for them that round after round their opponents seek to maximise their score. China won 3.5-0.5 with Samy Shoker getting the only draw against Li Chao.

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011 Round 6 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Armenia	*	2		2½			2	3½	2½	3½	10	16.0	0
2	Russia	2	*	3		2	1	3			3	8	14.0	0
3	Hungary		1	*		2½	2½	2	3½	2		8	13.5	0
4	China	1½			*	2½	2	3½	1½		3½	7	14.5	0
5	Ukraine		2	1½	1½	*	2½			2½	2½	7	12.5	0
6	Azerbaijan		3	1½	2	1½	*		2	3		6	13.0	0
7	USA	2	1	2	½			*		3	3½	6	12.0	0
8	Israel	½		½	2½		2		*	1½	3	5	10.0	0
9	India	1½		2		1½	1	1	2½	*		3	9.5	0
10	Egypt	½	1		½	1½		½	1		*	0	5.0	0

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011
Round 6 on 2011/07/23 at 15:00
Bo.	10	Russia	Rtg	-	8	Ukraine	Rtg	2 : 2
1.1	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2788	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2746	-	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2697	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2706	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2733	-	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	½ - ½
Bo.	9	Israel	Rtg	-	7	Azerbaijan	Rtg	2 : 2
2.1	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	-	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	0 - 1
2.2	GM	Smirin Ilya	2676	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	-	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2679	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2584	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	½ - ½
Bo.	1	USA	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	2 : 2
3.1	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	-	GM	Leko Peter	2717	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Shulman Yuri	2617	-	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Seirawan Yasser	2635	-	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	1 - 0
3.4	GM	Hess Robert	2609	-	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	½ - ½
Bo.	2	Armenia	Rtg	-	5	India	Rtg	2½:1½
4.1	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	-	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	1 - 0
4.2	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	-	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	-	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	-	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2642	½ - ½
Bo.	3	Egypt	Rtg	-	4	China	Rtg	½ :3½
5.1	GM	Adly Ahmed	2631	-	GM	Wang Hao	2718	0 - 1
5.2	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	-	GM	Wang Yue	2709	0 - 1
5.3	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	-	GM	Li Chao B	2669	½ - ½
5.4	IM	Ezat Mohamed	2430	-	GM	Ding Liren	2654	0 - 1

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