How to beat Nora
Nora is a advanced Chess.com bot listed at 1900. See how its games develop, what usually goes wrong and how to review yours.
Updated
Review your game now
How Nora plays
Nora is one of the advanced bots and plays for sharp positions, with tactics modelled on Magnus Carlsen without the patience that goes with them. Games against her get complicated early. Reviews usually show that the losing move was played in a position that was already difficult, several moves after the real error.
The plan
Do not enter complications you have not calculated; steer for positions you understand even at the cost of a slightly worse evaluation. In the review, find the last move where the position was still simple and ask what you could have played there instead.
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 advanced bot the useful move is rarely the last one. Open the review, find the first place the graph tips against you, and ask what Nora 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.