Running rated tournaments online?

Setting up our club on Chess.com doesn’t look too difficult (https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-run-chess-events-online).

The tough part is that there appears currently to be no (practical) way to run a rated tournament for “real” ratings. For better or worse, a lot of players are interested in participating only in events where regular rating points are at stake: attendance at our club is dramatically lower when we’re running a non-rated event than when we’re running a rated one. Even Quick Chess events don’t do all that well for us. The question then would become whether people who play at our club would find it acceptable to play for an “online only” rating. Maybe if we get stuck in our homes for so long that face-to-face play becomes a faint memory… :neutral_face:

I might contact the US Chess admins at Chess.com to see if there are plans to do this. (Worth a shot asking, anyway.)