Not sure who "you're" is in that context, but I'm not doing anything. The Grand Chess Tour is nothing to do with me.Angus French wrote:Pah! So you're using the rules for who qualifies to play in the Grand Chess Tour to advertise this wonderful new rating system... and then you're ignoring the results of the new rating system (when they produce the wrong answer).
But actually, I think you're wrong.
The three wildcards are - apparently in this order:
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS)
GM Sergey Karjakin (RUS)
GM Viswanathan Anand (IND)
Their FIDE ranking is 11, 8 and 6 respectively
Their FIDE rapidplay ranking is 5, 12 and 11
Their FIDE blitz ranking is 13, 2 and 19
Their URS ranking is 5, 6 and 10
So their URS rankings are higher using URS than they would be using any of the FIDE ratings as a basis for invitation.
So they have used it as a basis, which is what they said they were doing. 5 and 6 picked themselves, and then they appear to have invited one of the two players ranked #10 rated 2771, rather than the #9 rated 2772. This is hardly a significant deviation.
I think the wildcard selection is obvious based on the URS ratings, actually. 5 and 6 are the two players clearly ranked above other potential wildcards. As for the third pick, I'd pick Anand for the following reasons:
(1) Grischuk is Russian. I can imagine you don't really want a 4th Russian out of 9 players. So you move on past Grischuk.
(2) Anand is a many times former World Champion, unlike Aronian. So you pick Anand, and have Aronian as reserve.