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Armenia 2.5-1.5 Hungary

Armenia extended their lead with a narrow 2.5-1.5 win against Hungary. Leko drew with white against Aronian on top board. The only decisive game was on board 2 and Zoltan Almasi again wrecked a good position, this time as black against Sergei Movsesian to go on to lose. In particular he would almost certainly have won had he found 29...Bc1, his 37...Bd2 (37...Nxh3) which loses to both Rxc4 and the even better Nf3 cost him the game. Polgar-Akopian was a balanced draw. Gabriel Sargissian should have beaten Csaba Balogh, which would have happened if he had found the relatively simple 26.Ra3. Instead he pressed for a long time before having to settle for the draw.

China 2.5-1.5 Russia

China beat Russia 2.5-1.5 to move into second place in a match which saw the decisive game on the top board where Wang Hao beat Sergey Karjakin in a fluctuating struggle. Karjakin was pushing for a win with black for some time but on the run up to the first time control there were a number of errors (35...Qe8?, 38.d5?, 40.Qd5? losing for white, 40...Ba6?? losing for black, both Bxe5 and e2 win) with Karjakin's final error costing him the game. Grischuk-Wang Yue and Li Chao-Nepomniachtchi were drawn without much action, Peter Svidler had a big advantage against Yu Yangyi but couldn't convert it and probably should have found a way to avoid the bishops of opposite coloured ending that saved black.

Ukraine 2.5-1.5 Israel

Ukraine moved into 3rd place with a 2.5-1.5 win against Israel. There isn't much compromise in Emil Sutovsky's play and he went into a complex position against Vassily Ivanchuk which was pretty brave, probably he started to go astray on move 17 where 17...c5 was probably best, and he was lost after 19....Bc2? Ivanchuk didn't make a mistake in converting. Michael Roiz beat Pavel Eljanov with white. Black seemed more than fine in the opening but his 28...Qc7 lost the exchange for nothing so he resigned, both 28...Ne4 or 28...Qd5 would have held the balance. Evgeny Postny was fine as black against Alexander Moiseenko and was pressing at some point. The position was level at first time control but Moiseenko had a decisive advantage only four moves later. Nabaty drew with Areshchenko on bottom board.

USA 2.5-1.5 Azerbaijan

The US Team beat Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5 in an interesting match. Teimour Radjabov pressed against Gata Kamsky for some time but Kamsky is a very tough customer. Kamsky turned the position around to a win just before the first time control. Alexander Onischuk against Vugar Gashimov was an interesting game that was drawn once they reached a position with bishops of opposite colours. I'm guessing endings aren't Yuri Shulman's great love as he lost another almost equal position by being ground down, this time against Rauf Mamedov in the final game to finish. Yasser Seirawan took his score to a very creditable 3.5/5 beating Shakhriyar Mamedyarov whose opening of 1.d4 c5 2.d5 f5 as black suggested he wasn't that respectful of Seirawan's current ability and he got the whooping he so richly deserved.

India 2.5-1.5 Egypt

India beat Egypt 2.5-1.5 with wins for Harikrishna and Ganguly for India and a win for Ezat for Egypt.

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011 Round 7 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Armenia	*	2½		2	2½	2		2½	3½	3½	12	18.5	0
2	China	1½	*	2½	2½		3½	2		1½	3½	9	17.0	0
3	Ukraine		1½	*	2	1½		2½	2½	2½	2½	9	15.0	0
4	Russia	2	1½	2	*	3	3	1			3	8	15.5	0
5	Hungary	1½		2½	1	*	2	2½	2	3½		8	15.0	0
6	USA	2	½		1	2	*	2½	3		3½	8	14.5	0
7	Azerbaijan		2	1½	3	1½	1½	*	3	2		6	14.5	0
8	India	1½		1½		2	1	1	*	2½	2½	5	12.0	0
9	Israel	½	2½	1½		½		2	1½	*	3	5	11.5	0
10	Egypt	½	½	1½	1		½		1½	1	*	0	6.5	0

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011
Round 7 on 2011/07/24 at 15:00
Bo.	4	China	Rtg	-	10	Russia	Rtg	2½:1½
1.1	GM	Wang Hao	2718	-	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2788	1 - 0
1.2	GM	Wang Yue	2709	-	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2746	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Li Chao B	2669	-	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	½ - ½
1.4	GM	Yu Yangyi	2672	-	GM	Svidler Peter	2739	½ - ½
Bo.	5	India	Rtg	-	3	Egypt	Rtg	2½:1½
2.1	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	-	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	1 - 0
2.2	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	-	GM	El Gindy Essam	2510	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	-	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Gopal G.N.	2576	-	IM	Ezat Mohamed	2430	0 - 1
Bo.	6	Hungary	Rtg	-	2	Armenia	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Leko Peter	2717	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	½ - ½
3.4	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	½ - ½
Bo.	7	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	1	USA	Rtg	1½:2½
4.1	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	-	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	0 - 1
4.2	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	-	GM	Onischuk Alexander	2675	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2679	-	GM	Shulman Yuri	2617	1 - 0
4.4	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	-	GM	Seirawan Yasser	2635	0 - 1
Bo.	8	Ukraine	Rtg	-	9	Israel	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	-	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	1 - 0
5.2	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2697	-	GM	Roiz Michael	2669	0 - 1
5.3	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2715	-	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	1 - 0
5.4	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2682	-	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2584	½ - ½

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