Feature Request - Tournament Setup with Correspondence Time Controls

Hi,

One of Lichess best features is the ability for users to create their own tournaments. However, the current time control options limit the games from bullet to 60 minutes per side. On the correspondence side, one can create an individual game with 'days' limits. However, there is no way to create 'Correspondence Tournaments' that include advanced options.

It would be an excellent feature if the Classical chess tournament could include extended 'correspondence' time controls, such as timebank and timeout. Or at least allow multi-day time controls.

Thank you.

I assume that this feature does not exist because lichess.org does not want correspondence tournaments to exist. Many go on for years, and so are only relevant to the players rather than spectators. As well, in my experience most players time out anyway.

@iBishop

I would be happy to get an affirmation from the main admins/developers that correspondence time controls are undesirable because the games would lack any entertainment value to the audience at large. People at Lichess play chess for their own enjoyment and enrichment; and I doubt that the entire site is focused solely around spectators.

If anything, I would venture to say that correspondence chess can provide a much higher educational value than bullet or blitz because of the quality of play. Once they are finished, of course.

As for "timing out", that can be regulated with warnings or penalties. But I'm pretty sure that would be the exception and not the rule. I play correspondence tournaments in another website and have not seen any wide-spread timeouts. Not that the Lichess admins would care about unfinished or abandoned games, anyway.

The main point is that Correspondence Chess time controls (in the tournament setup options) would certainly satisfy a need for a section of chess players that desire such extended games.