Consider modifying the Chess World Cup, currently a single elimination tournament, into a double elimination. The winners' bracket proceeds by current chess World Cup rules: two classical time control games followed by rapid and blitz tiebreaks.
The losers' bracket is all blitz, and the rounds are scheduled roughly twice as fast as required by double elimination. Nevertheless, many more games can be played at blitz time control, perhaps providing statistical significance to the result.
The two qualifiers for the Candidates tournament are the winners of the winners' and losers' brackets.
The interesting question is which of the two, on average, does better in the candidates? Is blitz or super-short classical matches a better measure of ability in longer matches or tournaments?
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