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Russia scored their second 3-1 win to have the only 100% record at the end of the second round with wins for Nepomniachtchi against Polgar and Grischuk against Almasi in their match against Hungary. Armenia could only draw against the USA after Levon Aronian got a bit too enthusiastic with an unsound attacking idea against Gata Kamsky.

Russia scored their second consecutive 3-1 victory in defeating Hungary. Leko held Karjakin on top board and Balogh drew with Vitiugov on bottom board. Zoltan Almasi lost for the second day running with white. Grischuk was at least level shortly out of the opening but there was no need at all for Almasi to commit suicide with 36.Bxb6 dropping the house. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Judit Polgar contested a sharp Sicilian where Polgar allowed the shot 31.Bxa6 wrecking her position.

After six months of preparation for just four candidates games Shakhriyar Mamedyarov seems to be enjoying his return to more normal chess with a second win, this time in just 27 moves against Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Fellow Candidate Teimour Radjabov made light work of Pentala Harikrishna whose ill-judged 29th and 30th moves caused his position to be torn apart. Azerbaijan beat India 3-1 after the other two games were drawn.

Hosts China scored a fine 2.5-1.5 win against Ukraine in the second round. Alexander Areshchenko blew another very reasonable position out of the opening for his second consecutive loss and a probable long term place on the subs bench in getting himself crushed in 28 moves by Ding Liren on bottom board. The remaining games were drawn with Ivanchuk failing to convert a favourable position against Wang Hao and a similar story for Efimenko against Li Chao.

Emil Sutovsky beat Ahmed Adly and Nataby beat Ezat to secure a 3-1 victory for Israel over Egypt in one would imagine one of the more politically sensitive fixtures of the event. At least the match took place unlike the one at the Olympiad 2010 where the Yemen team were pressurised into not playing. Egypt and Israel met for the first time in 27 years at the 2008 Olympiad.

Levon Aronian got in a terrible mess against Gata Kamsky playing rather too boldy for the attack with black starting with 24...f5, that didn't mean that the chances he did get weren't at least a little frightening as the board turned into a mess. Kamsky could have held on to the big advantage by tucking his king away on g1 or h1 on move 38, instead he converted to a somewhat favourable ending and it turned out well for him as he had a decisive advantage by second time control. Alexander Onischuk lost his second consecutive game with black when his position disintegrated against Movsesian on the run up to first time control. Shulman vs Akopian and Sargissian against the returning Yasser Seirawan were both drawn. Final score USA - Armenia 2-2.

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011 Round 2 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Russia	*							3	3		4	6.0	0
2	Armenia		*				3½			2		3	5.5	0
3	Azerbaijan			*	2			3				3	5.0	0
4	China			2	*	2½						3	4.5	0
5	Ukraine				1½	*					2½	2	4.0	0
6	Israel		½				*				3	2	3.5	0
7	India			1				*	2			1	3.0	1
8	Hungary	1						2	*			1	3.0	1
9	USA	1	2							*		1	3.0	0
10	Egypt					1½	1				*	0	2.5	0

8th World Teams Ningbo CHN Sun 17th Jul 2011 - Wed 27th Jul 2011
Round 2 on 2011/07/18 at 15:00
Bo.	10	Russia	Rtg	-	6	Hungary	Rtg	3 : 1
1.1	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2788	-	GM	Leko Peter	2717	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2746	-	GM	Almasi Zoltan	2726	1 - 0
1.3	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2711	-	GM	Polgar Judit	2699	1 - 0
1.4	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2733	-	GM	Balogh Csaba	2643	½ - ½
Bo.	7	Azerbaijan	Rtg	-	5	India	Rtg	3 : 1
2.1	GM	Radjabov Teimur	2744	-	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	2669	1 - 0
2.2	GM	Gashimov Vugar	2760	-	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	2681	½ - ½
2.3	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	2765	-	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2627	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2625	-	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2642	½ - ½
Bo.	8	Ukraine	Rtg	-	4	China	Rtg	1½:2½
3.1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2768	-	GM	Wang Hao	2718	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2697	-	GM	Wang Yue	2709	½ - ½
3.3	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2706	-	GM	Li Chao B	2669	½ - ½
3.4	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2682	-	GM	Ding Liren	2654	0 - 1
Bo.	9	Israel	Rtg	-	3	Egypt	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2700	-	GM	Adly Ahmed	2631	1 - 0
4.2	GM	Smirin Ilya	2676	-	GM	Amin Bassem	2609	½ - ½
4.3	GM	Postny Evgeny	2618	-	IM	Shoker Samy	2475	½ - ½
4.4	GM	Nabaty Tamir	2584	-	IM	Ezat Mohamed	2430	1 - 0
Bo.	1	USA	Rtg	-	2	Armenia	Rtg	2 : 2
5.1	GM	Kamsky Gata	2741	-	GM	Aronian Levon	2805	1 - 0
5.2	GM	Onischuk Alexander	2675	-	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2700	0 - 1
5.3	GM	Shulman Yuri	2617	-	GM	Akopian Vladimir	2667	½ - ½
5.4	GM	Seirawan Yasser	2635	-	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2663	½ - ½

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