How to beat Maxim
Maxim is a intermediate Chess.com bot listed at 1000. See how its games develop, what usually goes wrong and how to review yours.
Updated
Review your game now
How Maxim plays
Maxim is the first bot most players meet who plays a recognisable game from start to finish: sensible development, no early queen raids, and enough tactical awareness to take what you leave. A review of a loss to Maxim tends to show one missed tactic rather than a slow decline.
The plan
Check every move he makes for what it attacks, and take the trade when it simplifies into an endgame you can play. Look in the review for the first move labelled a mistake and work out which tactic you did not see.
Review the game you just lost
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 Maxim was threatening there. That is the pattern to fix; the final blunder is just where it showed up.
Bot strengths are as Chess.com listed them at the time of writing; the site re-rates and adds bots. This site is not affiliated with Chess.com.