Live Chess World League: Ukraine Scores Big Against Serbia
Live Chess World League had another record-breaking week with so many big games!
Russia vs Kazakhstan
No more upsets! Russians can't afford another loss and they know it very well. Little more resistance was expected from the Kazakhs, specially on the Rapid match.
Russians also defeated a strong Serbian squad in the previous round. Yeah, they are going strong, but is that strong enough? We will find the answer on 17th May (Sunday) and that'll be a test for the Live Chess server also 
Match of the Week: Serbia vs Ukraine!
Record number of titled players from both sides! Ukraine got 378 players on the blitz match and I'm sure more of them will be joining the super-final!
Team of the week: Serbia! They've scored 38% and 41% of the match points against Ukraine and Russia respectively (which was only 23% and 28% in the First Stage). Remarkable turnaround!
Relegation Pool
Looks like, there won't be any change in the standings. Iran secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over Argentina and they are just unstoppable!
Div.2: Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Czech Republic!
Czech Republic is having a fantastic season. They're managing a good crowd and defeated Bosnia twice in the first stage! But this time Bosnians got their revenge.
Div.3: Uzbekistan vs England
Unbeaten Uzbekistan! Only unbeaten team in this season and they had a perfect run in the previous season as well! Hopefully Uzbeks will make Div.2 more competitive in the coming days.
Div.4: Canada vs Denmark (49.5 - 44.5)
Biggest game in the lower divisions and a close one as well! Denmark got their best squad in a must-win scenario against Canada. Winning this match, Canadians are looking favorites to win the Gold!
Maximum Boards:
| Format | Div.1 | Div.2 | Div.3 | Div.4 | Div.5 |
| Blitz 5|2 | 288 | 69 | 37 | 47 | 30 |
| Rapid 10|2 | 255 | 64 | 27 | - | - |
| Bullet 1|1 | 260 | - | - | - | - |
Massive difference between Div.1 and Div.2!
Some Interesting Games
Let's start win an easy one. Black to move and win! (Algeria vs Netherlands)
White missed mate in 3 and eventually lost! (Russia vs Serbia)
A king hunt to remember! (Bangladesh vs Puerto Rico)
Perpetual checks are boring for both sides. (Canada vs Denmark)
Stats Corner
Counter says, there will be 8000+ players in this season and that's less than 10% of the members!
Div.1 teams are just about to surpass the overall record of previous season!
22 teams have registered their all-time maximum number of boards during this season!
Coming Next...
Only few games are remaining and teams are all set for the final round of main event! Serbia vs Kazakhstan should be a close contest.
Prediction Time: Russia vs Ukraine! As both teams are preparing secretly, let me give a hint We are expecting 500 boards in all formats, probably 600 on blitz! Recent form gives slight advantage to Ukraine. But you never know! Russia is about to register their 1000th player in this season 
For Russia, scenario stands exactly similar to the season 4 final. They need to win every single game! They can afford a draw, but only once. All-time LCWL history says, Russia drew the most number of games (5)! Bullet, Blitz or Rapid - they are the only team to draw in every format 
History repeats itself! But Russians will desperately want to change that
Thanks for reading. Best wishes for the rest of this season! Ramadan Mubarak!
