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There was an exciting first round of the 8th World Team Championship in Ningbo, China with just 8 of the 20 games drawn. Armenia took an early lead with a thumping 3.5-1.5 win against Israel, Russia convincingly beat the USA 3-1 and Ukraine beat bottom seeds Egypt 2.5-1.5 but conceded a loss, the other 2 matches were drawn.

Russia got off to a solid start with a convincing 3-1 win against the USA. Karjakin and Svidler held Kamsky and Shulman easily with black, Nepomniachtchi quickly outplayed Onischuk in the middlegame and Robert Hess' 14...Rf8 was new and he quickly got into trouble in a position his opponent probably knew better than him.

Emil Sutovsky of Israel went for Levon Aronian with an unsound sacrifice with black on move 10. Aronian had to get a wandering king safe but once that happened the result was a formality. With wins from Akopian and Sargissian Armenia took an early lead.

Ukraine beat bottom seeds 2.5-1.5 but they did have the consolation of Samy Shoker winning from a probably lost, but sharp position as black against Alexander Areschenko. Ivanchuk and Moiseenko won for Ukraine.

Host China drew 2-2 with Azerbaijan with Wang Yue winning with black against Vugar Gashimov. Gashimov returned to the Azerbaijani team following the departure of Zurab Azaiparashvili as captain. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov had an easy win against the young Yu Yangyi to level things up.

Ganguly blundered his position away just before second time control against Judit Polgar, a similar mistake cost Almasi his position against Sasikiran as Hungary and India drew 2-2.

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011 Round 1 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Armenia	*									3½	2	3.5	0
2	Russia		*							3		2	3.0	0
3	Ukraine			*					2½			2	2.5	0
4	China				*			2				1	2.0	1
5	India					*	2					1	2.0	1
6	Hungary					2	*					1	2.0	1
7	Azerbaijan				2			*				1	2.0	1
8	Egypt			1½					*			0	1.5	0
9	USA		1							*		0	1.0	0
10	Israel	½									*	0	0.5	0

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011
Round 1 on 2011/07/17 at 15:00
Bo.	1	USA	Rtg	-	10	Russia	Rtg	1 : 3
1.1	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2788	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Onischuk Alexander	2675	-	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	0 - 1
1.3	GM	Shulman Yuri	2617	-	GM	Svidler Peter	2739	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Hess Robert	2609	-	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2733	0 - 1
Bo.	2	Armenia	Rtg	-	9	Israel	Rtg	3½: ½
2.1	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	-	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	1 - 0
2.2	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	-	GM	Roiz Michael	2669	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	-	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	-	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2584	1 - 0
Bo.	3	Egypt	Rtg	-	8	Ukraine	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Adly Ahmed	2631	-	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	0 - 1
3.2	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	-	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2706	½ - ½
3.3	GM	El Gindy Essam	2510	-	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	0 - 1
3.4	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	-	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2682	1 - 0
Bo.	4	China	Rtg	-	7	Azerbaijan	Rtg	2 : 2
4.1	GM	Wang Hao	2718	-	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	½ - ½
4.2	GM	Wang Yue	2709	-	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	1 - 0
4.3	GM	Li Chao B	2669	-	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2679	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Yu Yangyi	2672	-	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	0 - 1
Bo.	5	India	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	2 : 2
5.1	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	-	GM	Leko Peter	2717	½ - ½
5.2	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	-	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	1 - 0
5.3	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	-	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	0 - 1
5.4	GM	Gopal G.N.	2576	-	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	½ - ½

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