ratings for correspondence games

Hi all,

why in the community section there are no rating stats for classified correspondence games ?

cheers

Alfredo76

That question had come in my mind too :)

Though no answer for it.

Lichess decided a few months ago that Lichess cannot detect cheaters well enough to make correspondence chess workable with rating stats and trophies and LM titles.

See here :

http://en.lichess.org/qa/422/were-the-correspondence-trophys-and-top-ten-players-removed-from-lichess

Seems to make sense. Correspondence allows for a very long amount of time between moves and strong play versus engine play would be pretty difficult in many cases to notice at the top levels of the correspondence rankings, especially if the cheater is just using an engine to check if their move is accurate enough to not lose evaluation rather than to find the best lines to play. Since there's probably no real way to determine someone is doing that if they are a strong enough player, the correspondence rankings would be highly scrutinized.

I think it's a smart move on the part of lichess in order to discourage cheating in the one area where they can't be confident those rankings are at all accurate.

This doesn't make sense to me. If Lichess decides to allow rated correspondence games, it should also allow trophys and stats.

OK washeiri, let all the cheaters have trophies. Sounds like a great way to deter Correspondence cheating. Cool story bro.