Q-Chess - Quantum chess

The Vision of the White Horse (1798), by Philip James de Loutherbourg

Chess desperately needs some form of rating decay for a multitude of reasons: 1: Top players can maintain their ranking with very few games per year, preventing up and coming players from challenging them. Making it easier for them to blacklist players like myself. 2: Rating decay would challenge the anti meritocratic invitational round robin system. Most top events like GCT, Wijk, Norway Chess, have 0 open qualifiers. Any serious sport gives fair opportunities to top events, instead of using a subjective invitational system. 3: The top 2 players who wield the most influence would not benefit from any change and I’m sure their chess mafia counterparts would do everything they could to maintain their “narrative”. A 40-60 per year minimum games in TOP tournaments(Mickey mouse doesn’t count) that all MUST have open qualifiers would dramatically change the chess ecosystem. I firmly believe that FIDE should mandate every event that wants to count for circuit points have at least one open qualifier. While the addition of many new events and prize money has been extremely positive for chess, the classical rating system invitational system desperately needs reform.