Ten teams are playing in this event in Bursa, Turkey, which continues through the 13th. Here are the first round pairings in the World Team Championship:
Azerbaijan - Armenia
Turkey - USA
India - Greece
Russia - Brazil
Egypt - Israel
It's a very interesting selection of teams, featuring a large selection of teams with long-running political animosities. If everyone behaves, then I think it will have been a good thing. The selection of teams has caused controversy for other reasons, however. Here's Mikhail Golubev in the latest Chess Today:
It was indeed a nice move by the organizers of the world team championship - to invite Greece which does not have any players in the Top 100 and not to invite Ukraine which has ten such players (Karjakin already plays for Russia and is not counted).
C'mon, Mikhail, what have you got against Greece! But he's certainly right that it at least seems odd not invite a team with Ivanchuk (#8 in the world), Ponomariov (#13) and Eljanov (#14).*
Anyway, back to the teams that are there. You can find the full list here; here are some highlights:
Azerbaijan: Gashimov, Mamedyarov, Radjabov
Russia: Grischuk, Morozevich, Jakovenko, Malakhov, Tomashevsky (all over 2700) and Vitiugov (2692)
Israel: Gelfand
Armenia: Aronian
U.S.: Nakamura, and playing second reserve the 2570-rated 15-year-old Ray Robson (he's still listed as an IM, but I thought he earned his 3rd GM several months ago)
* An incidental note of interest. While looking up the top Ukranians' rank on the FIDE top 100, I was quite surprised to note that the top 9 represented 9 different countries. Has this ever happened before?