What about creating 3 huge tournaments with 10 players: top 2 advance to candidates - that's 6 players + challenger + maybe a winner of a smaller tournament of 3rd and 4th players 
Speculations on the Candidates' wild card
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JayeshSinhaChess wrote:
I feel the Wild Card idea should exist for one reason. That is to ensure that a deserving player doesn't miss out on the tournament if he failed to qualify through the normal routes.
So giving the wild card to someone who is totally out of left field, makes little sense. I feel once the list of qualifiers is known, the next few highest elo players should have their names put in a hat and one pulled out and he gets to be the wildcard.
Funny you should say that...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/idea-for-candidates-tournament-random-wild-card
I will go with the completely random draw route. As long as its done live and no human touches the envelopes. Just some powerball type machine pulling up a random ball. That way one could accuse anyone of bias.
If a human touches the envelope there will always be an element of oh the enveloped had a little dot in the corner and all that.
knighttour2 wrote:
It's called the grand prix 😁
No no, 3 tournaments with different players, sorted by higher rating:
- 1,4,7,10,13,16,19...
- 2,5,8,11,14,17,20...
- 3,6,9,12,15,18,21...
Oct 13, 2017
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#67
Such events couldn't be done exactly because the players have schedules and prior commitments, plus some players would already have qualified (like player #1, Magnus).
The cycle and method of selecting players is fine the way it is. The only reason we have a wildcard is to help get sponsors
Oct 30, 2017
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#68
Kramnik gets the wildcard, because of his glorious past, because the sponsor is Russian and, most importantly, because of how he looks on those who won't clasify:
Do you even play chess, bro?
Kramnik is king! Like kingofshedinjas.
macer75 wrote:
Alright guys, I'm going to make a BOLD prediction now. The field for the 2018 Candidates Tournament will be:
Sergey Karjakin
Levon Aronian
Ding Liren
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Alexander Grischuk
Fabiano Caruana
Wesley So
Vladimir Kramnik
Remember, you heard it here first!
And what did I say?
macer75 wrote:
macer75 wrote:
Alright guys, I'm going to make a BOLD prediction now. The field for the 2018 Candidates Tournament will be:
Sergey Karjakin
Levon Aronian
Ding Liren
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Alexander Grischuk
Fabiano Caruana
Wesley So
Vladimir Kramnik
Remember, you heard it here first!
And what did I say?
actually I predicted the same thing but with anand in and kramnik out
Darn! 
25 is the youngest age of any of the Candidates this year. Last time it was 21. FWIW.
chessguy1012 wrote:
macer75 wrote:
macer75 wrote:
Alright guys, I'm going to make a BOLD prediction now. The field for the 2018 Candidates Tournament will be:
Sergey Karjakin
Levon Aronian
Ding Liren
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Alexander Grischuk
Fabiano Caruana
Wesley So
Vladimir Kramnik
Remember, you heard it here first!
And what did I say?
actually I predicted the same thing but with anand in and kramnik out
How would that work?
I would prefer that the players that just missed out (3rd in GP and rating lists, maybe 4th also) should play mini-matches to decide the wildcard, that way you get some less common players in there, but the player that wins has also earned their spot by right. Maybe the sponsor should organise this (think of all the monies, FIDE!).