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I have not possibility to play Correspondence Rated games in variants

Hi All:)
I have not possibility to create game-
Correspondence,Rated in variants,
there is only Casual possibility

also no possibilty to send challenge and play with Friend

On main page I see that there are Correspondence Rated games in variants like by kekx,I don't know what is happenned?

Can You help me?
Thank You
Maybe the lichess moderators caught you cheating so you were banned from creating rated games?
I'm also having the same problem so I'd hope it doesn't have anything to do with cheating. I can created rated games in standard chess but just not any of the variants.
Thank You
@Vempele for help.
It is written there:
"This is a discussion Fischy and I have had... we think that variant correspondence games should be made casual-only. Here are some reasons:

Harder to monitor cheats - Correspondence Ranking was removed a long time ago for that reason, but the same thing is true for variants.
Opening explorer usage is legal and easy in correspondence, but for certain variants (for example atomic), playing the first 5-10 moves with an opening explorer gives you a massive advantage if your opponent doesn't, and correspondence shouldn't become a "battle of opening explorers" anyway.
Some people are using rated variant correspondence as an easy way to collect easy wins against 1500? players to get in a leaderboard.
The team appears to agree that variant correspondence shouldn't be rated".

So.We have it.

All You-AMATEURS and LOVERS to play Correspondence tempo-because You can to have more time to thinking-
have You possibility to say-BIG THANKS FOR DESTROYED IT
people like-

@FischyVishy

Maybe it is true that people can to use Explorer but many moves there are wrong even they was played many times.

Besides I think that lichess.org reached so much people in every day thanks Correspondence mode because they played every day and logged on this chess site.

I hope for human honest and it is very bad to think that everyone who played Correspondence mode is cheater.

My grandfather wooden chessboard is crying.

@YoNOsoyMike
is also crying because He created Correspondence Team with many Ideas about good fun and play in chill.

BEAUTIFULL IDEA OF CORRESPONDENCE CHESS on lichess.org
WAS CRASHED.

Thank you Lebanese King for do it
I don't think things are as simple as FV claims. I'd say this isn't a manner of one person's opinion changing things, but there being difficult problems and Lichess finding a simple solution.

As a chess player I find interesting the possibility of the most complicated possible solution, but as a developer I realize that complicated solutions are very hard to support.
Thank You Daniel @Toadofsky
for honestly opinion,
I understand that is hard to support complicated solutions,
I have not any problems to play in real time but for me it is harder than in Correspondence tempo,
e.g


I am weak in bullet tempo but I played with Champion of Racing Kings,it was really interesting game but at the end I blundered-time pressia,
no problem,I think that new improvements are reasonable,
Thanks him I can to back on Top in Racing Kings when I played vs strong opponents like suggested me moderators
I love You All:)
Thank You
Thanks so much lichess moderators, I can't express how happy I am about this. For so long I have wanted a rule something like this to be put in, as many racing kings players were doing this to get easy wins. @rzenaikrzys, you were doing this, and it defeats the purpose if being high rated if you don't play people that are your level. How about a match sometime?

By the way, as I was reading this I just won a game in correspondence racing kings, and somehow I got points for winning. Why was this?

-link to game
Sigh... is it really necessary for developers to settle squabbles between users? I actually agree with @rzenaikrzys about the "right" way to do things and would even go a step further & suggest the "actual right" way to do things would be to have per-variant correspondence ratings since any other solution will leave some users unsatisfied. But such a solution is infeasible.

(And there are ways to have correspondence-based leaderboards, but that in itself is both a logistical and administrative nightmare, but in a perfect world it could be done.)

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