Chesscom online titles

Something I’d like to see appear on the platform someday :

CC online titles.

The idea is clear : having online rating threshold for online titles (let’s say for blitz, rapid and even bullet despite it not being meaningful as there are some weird time control overlaps with ultra and hyper bullet … )

I feel like us online players get discarded simply because we don’t necessarily are willing to grind OTB despite being strong-ish. Online titles would allow us to get in certain tournaments with prize money making online rating more meaningful.

Obviously that would attract cheaters, but we could enforce the use of proctor + cams and could verify the identity. We could even try to copy FOA by putting a diamond membership paywall to get a title. You’d obviously need to have played enough games and have an old enough account to claim an online title.

With all these safety measure we could get a system to make online rating more competitive/meaningful than ever.

Do you have the vision ?

agreed

To discourage cheaters, there should be payment and identity verification, just like FOA. Identity verification locks out even wealthy cheaters, and payment ensures that nobody spams the process, and that people don't try to cheat because they have nothing to lose.

For payment, one could adapt the requirements for a username claim.

I also like the idea that you need to be above a certain rating for a number of games, just like FOA. Something like 150 bullet / 100 blitz / 50 rapid games above 1200 / 1600 / 2000 / 2400 for CCM / CFM / CIM / CGM.

I was thinking about much higher thresholds for the titles. And way more games played (in the thousands even). Also we could have online norms for CIM and CGM you could get via playing in strong enough online tournaments with similar criteria as OTB norms.