Has anyone here done the woodpecker method?

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ricorat

Has anyone here done the woodpecker method and if so how much did you improve after it?

Magnus_Chase19

whats te woodpecker method

LazyDog24

What's the woodpecker method? Is it where you eat a Woodpecker before every chess game?

ricorat

The woodpecker method is a book full of 1100+ tactics. You are supposed to chose a set of tactics (in my case the 762 intermidiate ones) and solve them in 4 weeks. Then you will solve all those tactics again but, in 2 weeks. You keep doing this until you solve them all in 1 day.

DasBurner

wouldn't that just be memorizing the puzzles?

ninjaswat

Nope but I've heard it's pretty good.

LazyDog24

Aw man. I really just want to eat a bird instead of doing tactics all day...

ricorat
DaBabysBurner wrote:

wouldn't that just be memorizing the puzzles?

Kinda. it's supposed to improve your tactical sight IMENSLY and I was wondering if anyone here had tried it

LazyDog24

Go on lichess for free, unlimited puzzles

ricorat
LazyDog24 wrote:

Go on lichess for free, unlimited puzzles

I got the book for free online

LazyDog24

Oh lol, I thought it costed money. Remember kids, paying for puzzles is the biggest scam of the century!

OrphanGenerator
ricorat wrote:
LazyDog24 wrote:

Go on lichess for free, unlimited puzzles

I got the book for free online

Where'd you get it free? I wanna know if it's helpful

OrphanGenerator
DaBabysBurner wrote:

wouldn't that just be memorizing the puzzles?

I think that the idea is that in real chess games, if you look at a position, you can go, "Hey! This looks like that one position from the book!" and you spot the tactic.

Chushoudelu
ricorat wrote:

The woodpecker method is a book full of 1100+ tactics. You are supposed to chose a set of tactics (in my case the 762 intermidiate ones) and solve them in 4 weeks. Then you will solve all those tactics again but, in 2 weeks. You keep doing this until you solve them all in 1 day.

NO. why do that. Jsut get something to reveal a position and you have to find it in a minute. Works better in a game

LazyDog24
epicusernamehere wrote:
ricorat wrote:
LazyDog24 wrote:

Go on lichess for free, unlimited puzzles

I got the book for free online

Where'd you get it free? I wanna know if it's helpful

I think it's this https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/WoodpeckerMethod-excerpt.pdf

ricorat

I got the book off scibd

Chushoudelu
little_guinea_pig wrote:

I did that, only with Lazlo Polgar's Chess (3000+ M1, M2, and M3 tactics) lol

It's pain the first time with the mate in twos in the endgame

OrphanGenerator

Thanks, I got the PDF from this site, I think it's called Academia.edu