2023 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship: Well On My Way to Winning the Championship in 2098

The greatest chess players can think 5, 10, 15 or more moves into the future. So it makes sense that if I want to beat the best of them, I have to go beyond moves and think 5, 10, 15 or more years into the future.

Yes, my ingenious master plan is painfully slow, glacial, incremental improvement.

In last year's Chess.com Daily Chess Championship, I was eliminated in the second round with a record of 16 wins and 6 losses.

This year, I was eliminated in the second round with a record of 18 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw.

Surely I am on the right path and am certain to capture the crown before the turn of the next century.

That's all well and good, you might say, but Grunkle Mike, you're 64 years old and will be 140 by the year 2098. Won't you be dead and amolderin' in your grave by then?

To that I reply, "Of course!" But according to the predictions of every science fiction novel, by then we'll have the capacity to put my brain into an android body, enabling me to blunder my way forward through multiple Chess.com Daily Championships until the point where I blunder no more.

I imagine a future where, when faced with a position like this, from my 2023 second round game against the eventual group winner, I will play fxe6, or virtually any other move besides what I actually played, Bxe6, leading to being mated in 1.

Or when faced with this losing position, I'll at least come up with something better than g3, leading to being mated in 1 yet again.

What a bright, shiny future that will be.