Chess Improvement | How to boost your elo

         Hello everyone! Today I am back with a topic that all of you would probably like to hear about: chess improvement. Now many of you may think that you have all you need, and that is perfectly true, however you may not know what you need.

I am sure you all are doing the routines that are said to be best, like doing puzzles every day, reading up on endgames, or doing whatever was in the latest GothamChess video. However, I have discovered a method that is scientifically proven to be a strong method for learning chess.

Okay, now for the moment you've all been waiting for: what is this method? Well, recent scientific research has led to a method that Chessable has taken up first to create a new method of training. Chessable says that if you repeat a line or a variation at least three times than it will not just improve your tactical vision, but it will also implant that particular pattern into your brain.

Chessable took this new method and had grandmasters create courses and Chessable put their repeating variation method into it. The results were fantastic and Chessable is going strong to this day.

The one drawback, however, is that Chessable focuses mostly upon openings, and there is no need to dive into thousands of variations of a single variation of an opening at an intermediate level.

This is a mistake that a lot of players make, they focus only on openings and not on the most important aspects of chess.

So if not openings, what is the most important aspect of chess improvement? Tactics. Tactics. Tactics. Endgames are also crucial but for now let's focus on tactics.

Surely many of you do lots of tactics, such as puzzles out of books, puzzles on chess.com, and puzzle rush, but let's take it a step further. How do we take the method we just discussed and mix it with tactics? Sadly, I wasn't the first to think like this, so the Woodpecker Method was born.

The Woodpecker Method is a method in which you will do the same set of puzzles (about 1,000) first in 4 weeks, then the same ones in 2 weeks, 1 week, and so on, repeating the same tactical patterns not just thrice but seven times.

This is clearly efficient, but what if you took it another step further and did with endgames? Maybe openings?

The creator of the Woodpecker Method has again, already done this with strategy. A set of strategical ideas being repeated and planting them in your mind.

Once you understand how to do this with tactics and endgames then you should just repeat this process over and over with more and more variations each time.

Surely this sounds tedious, but the most important thing is it actually works. Please try this, it will definitely boost your elo by lots of points. Please follow LimeRapidWalrus for more content.