Hyrozen

your edit in World Chess Championship 2020

Hi Hyrozen -- thanks for taking part in editing World Chess Championship 2020. Perhaps you hadn't seen my previous edit summary. There was an extensive discussion on the talk page about what to include in the article, and a consensus was reached that MVL and Alekseenko should be listed as eligible for the wild card. Please honour the consensus or, if you disagree, please try to change it by engaging with the discussion on the talk page. Please note that it's not acceptable to repeatedly revert changes that are based on a consensus on the talk page without engaging with the discussion there.

As regards the announcement of the Russian Chess Federation, this does not effect who is eligible for the wild card. Eligibility for the wild card is defined in the FIDE regulations and does not depend on intentions announced by the RCF. Even if the non-Russian players don't end up getting chosen, that doesn't change the fact that they're eligible to be chosen.

Joriki (talk) 17:35, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page.

I'm not sure why you consider the consensus on the talk page "foggy". Please elaborate.

You're wrong about Giri, Mamed, Nepo, Grischuk and So being eligible according to the FIDE rules. They are in the top ten of the rating averages from February 2019 to November 2019. Eligibility for the wild card will be determined according to the rating averages from February 2019 to January 2020. It is not only possible, but in fact currently seems likely that Aronian will overtake So and end up in tenth place in the averages from February 2019 to January 2020. Thus, we don't know yet who will be eligible for the wild card based on average rating. By contrast, we do know that MVL and Alekseenko will be eligible (unless they qualify for the Candidates Tournament via another path).

By the way, this was also already discussed on the article's talk page. In the meantime, a discussion about how to take into account the RCF announcement has also begun on that talk page. I suggest that we continue the discussion there, where all editors can read and contribute; I was just writing to you here on your personal talk page because I got the impression that you weren't aware that there was a discussion on the article's talk page and you might not see it if I wrote there. Joriki (talk) 23:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)