2024 Daily Chess Championship - Bringing my chess game to the top level

Let's start of with a quick dad joke:

Why did the chess player bring an elevator to the game?

Because he wanted to take his game to the next level!

Ok, I know you didn't find that funny and you think I'm stupid, so now let's get to the point.

Using the logic of my joke, in order to beat other players, I have to be in a higher level than my opponent. If my opponent was playing chess.com on the ground floor, I have to go in my elevator or go up the stairs so I can be in a higher level. 

But what if someone was playing from the top floor of a 100 level building, then I am no where from winning. So I have decided to immigrate to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. You might be asking me, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU GO THERE??? But I have a brilliant answer. In Dubai, there is the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building in the world. 830 meters tall with 163 floors. So I have to be playing the 2024 Daily Chess Championship, while being on the top floor of the Burj Khalifa to beat every single opponent.

Well the plan didn't quite work...

I ended up being eliminated in the FIRST ROUND!!!

(This is my first year playing this competition)

I was close getting to the next round, I placed #2 in my group, here is a table showing the result of my group:

As you can see, the person who is at the top of the leaderboard have not lost a single game, that person had 22 points out of 22. I lost two games, which were both against KaramT91, and I won 20 games, 17 of which I won because of timeout. And 13 out of 22 of my games my opponent have not made a single move! This just shows how dedicated people are to chess.

We'll be going through one of my best games in 2024 Daily Chess Championship. This game was played against Parsalidis_Nikolaos and I was playing white. Press here to go to the game.

Analysis:

1. d4 d5  I strated the game with queen's pawn.
2. c4 c6  I played c4, hoping that they would accept the queen's gambit.
3. Nf3 dxc4  Slav Defense: Modern Line
4. e4 Qa5+  
5. Bd2 Qc7  
6. Bxc4 e5  I munch up the first free pawn
7. Nxe5 Nf6  I munch up the second free pawn
8. Nc3 b5  
9. Bxf7+ Ke7  I munch up the third free pawn
10. Bb3 Nbd7  
11. Nf3 Ke8  
12. e5 Ng4  I attack the knight
13. Ng5 b4  
14. Qxg4 Nc5  I munch up free knight, then he tries and sac his second knight
15. Qh5+ g6  For some reason I missed the hanging knight
16. Qf3 Nxb3  I lose a knight
17. Nce4 Nxa1  I lose a rook
18. O-O Be7  
19. Qf7+ Kd8  I try to make them feel un safe by checking their king
20. Qg7 Rf8  Attacks the rook
21. Nf7+ Ke8  I check some more
22. Nf6+ Bxf6  Then I blundered my knight because I have room temperature IQ
23. exf6 Be6  They played a massive blunder because instead of taking my knight they put pressure on it instead
24. Nd6+ Qxd6  After that I thought I was real slick by sacrificing my knight
25. Bf4 Rf7  Now I am six points down on material
26. Qxf7+ Bxf7  Next, I took the rook with check
27. Bxd6 Nc2  So I can take the queen next move
28. Be5 Bxa2  
29. Rc1 Bb3  
30. Kf1 Rd8  
31. Ke2 Bc4+  
32. Kd2 Nxd4  They played another gigantic blunder by taking that "free" pawn
33. Bxd4 Rxd4+  But I am really stupid so I missed the free bishop
34. Ke3 c5  
35. h3 Rd3+  
36. Kf4 Bb5  
37. Rxc5 Rd4+  Rook to d4 is a blunder and you'll soon see why
38. Ke5 Rd3  My king attacks rook, my rook attacks bishop
39. Rxb5 Kf7  Takes free bishop
40. Rb7+ Ke8  
41. f7+ Kf8  I push pawn
42. Ke6 Rd2  
43. Rb8+ Kg7  I get their king out of the 8th rank
44. f8=Q#  What a beautiful finish!

1-0

My Accuracy: 67.4

Their Accuracy: 51.5 

I have thoroughly enjoyed this competition although I got eliminated in the first round, maybe I should play from Mount Everest next year? Who knows? Maybe it'll work!

See you next year!