Is it possible to award correspondence titles or at least put back up the leaderboard? I feel that correspondence chess is often overlooked although it is a good way to improve one's chess abilities. Titles/ a leaderboard can help motivate one to improve and will give a sense of recognition to correspondence players so to speak.
All chess sites & organizations have some problems with correspondence chess cheats, especially non-Lichess sites & organizations who have titles & a leaderboard at stake.
New players would not end up on the leaderboard anyway.
New players would not end up on the leaderboard anyway.
Well if you *cannot prevent it*, why not ALLOW it (ONLY in correspondence of course)? Just mark it as engine assisted correspondence. In fact, with both players agreeing, this is already a reality. I will still play without help of a computer (better learning effect) and so will many others (It would be interesting to know what the numbers on cheaters are in relation to conventional players anyway). If everybody knows it, it is not unfair and everybody knows what he is up to. Sure the engine guys will take over the leaderboard, but that will be tough competition as well, and it would help to SEPERATE these two groups and the seperate peaks which I would expect in the bell curve would still give an idea what your actual playing strength is.
:) Then "Engine Chess" is a better name :)
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