Live Chess World League: Russia, Ukraine Will Battle In Sunday Superfinal
LCWL has already got the winners of Div.3 and Div.5! Gold will be decided for the other divisions on this Sunday as teams will be playing the final round of this season.
LCWL Superfinal: Russia vs Ukraine!
Biggest Live Team Match in the history of online chess! This contest will begin tomorrow (May 17, Sunday) at 9:00 p.m. (Moscow / Kiev time). Dear Russian and Ukrainian chess lovers, hurry up! Join quickly and help your team to reach 600 boards, maybe even more 
Team Russia: https://www.chess.com/club/team-russia
Team Ukraine: https://www.chess.com/club/team-ukraine
Match Links:
Bullet https://www.chess.com/live#tm=10892 at 18:00 UTC (match duration: 12 mins)
Blitz https://www.chess.com/live#tm=10891 at 18:20 UTC (about 35 mins)
Rapid https://www.chess.com/live#tm=10893 at 19:00 UTC (about 55 mins)
Use this Time zone converter and don't miss that epic battle!
Scenario: Ukraine is currently leading by 4 points. Therefore, Russians can't celebrate even after winning 2 games. On the other side, Ukrainians shouldn't give up even if they lose 2 games! For those Russians who are planning to join Blitz first, remember, Gold can be decided on Bullet also
Live Chess World League | Current Standings
| Rk. | Team | UKR | RUS | SRB | KAZ | IRI | FRA | PER | ARG | UKR | RUS | SRB | KAZ | Points | H2H | SB | Avg% | |
| 1 | Ukraine | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 30 | - | 438 | 69% | ||||
| 2 | Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 26 | - | 407 | 61% | ||||
| 3 | Serbia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | - | 217 | 54% | |||
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | - | 210 | 40% | |||
| Rk. | Team | UKR | RUS | SRB | KAZ | IRI | FRA | PER | ARG | IRI | FRA | PER | ARG | Points | H2H | SB | Avg% | |
| 5 | Iran | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 25 | - | 244 | 60% | ||||
| 6 | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | - | 83 | 49% | ||||
| 7 | Peru | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | - | 90 | 42% | ||||
| 8 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | 43 | 27% |
Streamers: Only titled streamers are listed below. Looks like, Ukraine is already taking the lead here!
| Russian Side | Ukrainian Side | Language |
| GM Vladimir Fedoseev | GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko | English |
| GM Vladimir Dobrov | IM Nastya Rakhmangulova | English |
| GM Roman Ovetchkin | IM Viktor Skliarov | Ukrainian |
| IМ Artem Zubritskiy | CM Artur Sevosteenko | Ukrainian |
| WGM Dina Belenkaya | IM Sergey Pavlov | Ukrainian |
| CM Stepan Osinovskiy | CM Serhiy Franchuk | Ukrainian |
| CM Kirill Shcherbinin | CM Vadym Dovchenko | Ukrainian |
| CM Evgeniy Shuvalov | GM Pavel Eljanov | Russian |
| GM Vladimir Baklan | Russian | |
| GM Alexander Zubov | Russian | |
| GM Olexandr Bortnyk | Russian | |
| GM Kuzubov Yuriy | Russian | |
| IM Valery Grinev | Russian | |
| CM Margarita Novikova | Russian |
*Fedoseev, Dobrov, Zubritskiy, Belenkaya, Osinovskiy, Scherbinin can answer questions in English. Dobrov also speaks Spanish and Belenkaya also speaks French.
Promotion Campaign: Both teams are promoting the match in different social networking sites.
Team Ukraine created a poll on their Facebook event.
They also had a flash-mob with more than 100 participants!!
Russians are also preparing for this match by solving some puzzles from their own games.
Prediction Time: Scoreline usually stands 3-0 in the super-final and this one should not be an exception. I just hope, Live Chess server will survive and join button will function properly 
Questions for the actively involved admins in LCWL
- Who will be the winner of superfinal match?
- What will be a new record of LCWL by number of board?
Interesting Games from 4th Round
That was an early meeting for Ukraine but Russia started exactly where they finished season 4!
Let's try some puzzles from that big match. White to move and win.
Never give up! Perhaps your opponent is in a hurry to finish the game
This one was little difficult to find.
Take your time and calculate the entire line, it's Rapid!
Russian admins are collecting puzzles from previous superfinals. Amazing stuffs!
Weekly Review
Uzbekistan Wins Div.3
Uzbekistan defeated Puerto Rico and became the unbeaten champions. Uzbeks just dominated the entire season by scoring 75% of the match points. Congratulations!
Italy Surprises Canada!
We've seen a strong Italian line-up after a long time. Popular Italian streamer WFM Maria De Rosa @Parthenope has also played this crucial match. Winning this match, Italy keep their hopes alive. Italy vs Denmark is going to be another close contest!
Galicia Wins Div.5
Being one of the smallest clubs in this league, Team Galicia defeated Asian giants like India and China! Their final round against Pakistan was quite one-sided.
Stats Corner
7690 players played in the main event! With just 7% games remaining, we can expect 8000 
Russia got 962 active players in this season!
Combining all 39 teams, LCWL has reached 100k members today!
Special thanks goes to @SamCopeland, @Midav_Veahkar and @AlexanderMatlak. I really appreciate their helps in writing this blog.
Thanks for reading. Best wishes for the Super Final
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