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Correspondance Chess

I noticed that when Anti Chess was introduced, its rating immediately appeared in the profile pop-up. Correspondence has been around for a while, yet its rating is still not listed when you hover over a player's handle. Why?
This bothers me as well. I figure there's room for the other two variants in the pop-up if the current six are moved to the side a bit.
An old feature of correspondence chess, from the days of pigeon post, is the ability to send a variation instead of only one move at a time.
For example my opponent plays 1.e4, I reply 1...e5 2.Nf3 Nc6. Ok, if he plays a move other than 2.Nf3, I will play another second move, but if he does play 2.Nf3, then we save time.
@elrond - seems complicated to implement, but I could see premove being useful... automatic recaptures, for example, would let the game continue immediately instead of the day+ back and forth.
@73 : You already lost three of this 5 games, it's finally not an important loss of points because of Lichess
On a side note: What happened to everyone's correspondence trophies?
It says I have 9 games in play ( I suspect this is because 9 boards are shown in the tab ). Indeed I have 29 games in play. This was correct before. I understand that correcting bugs takes time, but why turn properly working functions into buggy ones?

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