How to beat David
David is a intermediate Chess.com bot listed at 1400. See how its games develop, what usually goes wrong and how to review yours.
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How David plays
David is the top of the intermediate range and plays a clean, unspectacular game. He does not blunder pieces and he does not attack recklessly, so a loss to David is usually an endgame lost slowly rather than a middlegame lost quickly. That makes his games the most useful ones to review at this level.
The plan
Play for the endgame rather than the attack. In the review, ignore the last twenty moves and look at where the evaluation first moved half a pawn against you, which against David is normally a pawn structure decision, not a tactic.
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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 David was threatening there. That is the pattern to fix; the final blunder is just where it showed up.
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