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[Feature] - Matching players by personality

Hi,
few days ago I was thinking about the possibility to determine one player's attitude of playing (e.g. Positional, Tactical, etc.) and then being able to choose the player by his/her personality while creating the game.

For example: I enjoy playing positional chess and sometimes I even manage to beat stronger opponents but I play rather poorly against tactical players because of my lack of tactical knowledge. I'd be thrilled if I had the opportunity to choose to play against tactical players to improve my tactical play.
I don't know about matching by style or personality specifically, but it might be useful if you could add a comment to your seek about what kind of game you're looking for. "Looking to practice main-line Slav" etc.

In your case, maybe you could just play more tactical openings yourself? e4 instead of d4, Sicilian instead of French etc.
It might be a start, but tactical variations can arise from the French and the Slav too, what if I meet them in a tournament? My opening repertoire is pretty much consolidate now and I don't want to switch from d4 to e4 right now: I used to be a e4 player one year and I have quite experience with that opening too. Last but not least, e4 and the Sicilian may lead to positional games as well, so it might be a little of a gamble to change opening repertoire so dramatically. Having the opportunity to choose between tactical and positional might be much much more productive.
You don't need to change completely. Just in some portion of your games try to get into different types of positions than you normally go for.

Of course you can never be sure what kind of a game you'll get as your opponent has an influence as well, but if you yourself always try to steer the game into quiet or positional paths then you can't really complain if you don't get to practice tactics as much as you'd like.
You said it: you can never be sure what kind of a game you'll get.
What if we have the opportunity of choosing? It would be great

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