A suggestion of new chess variant and one question about tournament ratings

Well, Lichess team, congrats on the really great work of ever-expanding various options and chess variant for Lichess friends and chess enthusiasts. Hovewer, I got a new suggestion about introducing a new variant, which I beieve would gain exstreme popularity. A variant in question is "Capablanca chess", invented in 1920's by Capa himself, while he was experimenting in various ways to expand a "classic" chess game by introducing 2 new chess pieces. The variant was relatively popular in his time, but unfortunatelly little is heard of it since then. There is hope YOU could ressurect it and bring it for testing and joy of discovering its waste possibilities. I really wish it would see the light of day soon, for pleasure of all Lichess fans!

One question about tournament options; I believe I am speaking in the name of many Lichess tourney players when asking you the following:
Is there any way you could add the option among the other options for making a new tornament, to limit the range of the players the tourney maker wish to be faced at? As we all are aware about, a tourney when players all the way from rating 900 to 2600 somehow loses its charm, and I really do believe that making option which reads something like "Rating range", with a possibility to choose a rating range we wold like our rivals to participate would greatly improve the realism and fun of playing. I'd like to know that you'd at least seriously think about such an option in near future.

Best regards, and keep up a great work!

Never heard of the first one... I will google it later.

About the tournaments: I concur.

Thanks for reply & feedback. :)

What's wrong with you, guys? Why don't you like play with players whose rating is higher than yours. I think its the best training for you to improve your chess skill! Do you feel yourself better, when your opponent does blunders? If you answer is "yes", this game will not become "battle of intelligences"

P.S. If you lost a game with NM you will lose few points of your rating, but if you'll win....

I'm a afraid you completely missed the point. If someone would like to play, say, with a players with a range of +- 200 rating points (which seems quite reasonable) of his own, then he can feel free to make such a tournament if he please, and it's hard not to agree that it's his right to do so, by HAVING SUCH OPTION to choose from. If you, on the other hand, don't care to face ANY opponent, even if (s)he is 1000 points higher (or lower - in this case what is there to learn for you, really? As you said yourself, is there really a fun in constantly facing opponent whose almost EVERY move is a blunder?) than you, feel free to create SUCH tournament, i.e. the one WITHOUT a rating range limit. Such an option should, for the same reason, be included in the list of options as well. The players who, likewise, do NOT care, would join your tournament. So you see, in the end of the day, it's all about FREEDOM OF CHOICE, don't you agree?

I agree, Lemuel. They should have a rating option, like the normal games. I don't like playing people who are much better than me, but then I don't like playing people who are uneducated about chess either.

Let's now hope to live long enough to see it coming into life, IceManV...

I wouldn't want to see something like this for the hourly/daily/weekly/monthly tournaments, but it seems to be a perfectly valid option for user-created tournaments.

Lemuel_Gulliver, you obviously have the point concerning the rating range. Being forced to play a less skillful opponent is okay, we are all learning from the game. But playing absolute beginners, especially classic games which by definition expect to take more time, may be considered by some by far more experienced players as boring. We may consider a possibility for a rating threshold for being eligible to enter tournaments. Say, 1400 or so. There could be also some elite tournaments for 2000plus players.

By the way, I have never heard about serious Capablanca chess tournaments and the degree of popularity of this variant nowadays. As opposed to Chess960.