How to beat Azeez

Azeez is a intermediate Chess.com bot listed at 1100. See how its games develop, what usually goes wrong and how to review yours.

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How Azeez plays

Azeez plays in the band where opening knowledge starts to matter. Games against him are decided less often by a single blunder and more often by coming out of the opening with a worse position and never equalising. Reviews show the evaluation drifting in the first fifteen moves and never coming back.

The plan

Learn one opening properly for each colour and play it every game against him. Then use the review to see where your position first tipped, which against Azeez is usually a developing move you played in the wrong order.

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Bot games on Chess.com have their own address once they are finished: chess.com/game/computer/…. Type rv in front of it, rvchess.com/game/computer/…, and the full review builds itself: accuracy for both sides, every move labelled, and a graph you can click to jump to the moment the game turned. It is free, needs no account, and does not count against Chess.com's daily Game Review.

If you cannot find the address, paste the game's PGN instead. A free Chess.com account caps Game Review at one a day, and bot games count against it. Here every saved bot game can be reviewed in full, as many as you play.

Which move to look at

Against a intermediate bot the useful move is rarely the last one. Open the review, find the first place the graph tips against you, and ask what Azeez was threatening there. That is the pattern to fix; the final blunder is just where it showed up.

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