Does the Woodpecker method work?

I just got the Woodpecker method book. And I'm wondering Has anyone used the whole book and see if it works?

I don't have it but I don't think it will work

I'm looking for people that know what the book is

oh ok

it works Im getting better at chess with it and it worked for my coach who was a 1000 ELO and now is USCF 1700 ELO USCF high ratings are basically twice as small as Chess.com ratings so that's unbeleivably good Im doing it and I have been doing better I would reccomend it

It's good

I'm levy rozman

Sure blud

Levy rozman from temu

I got it, and it was super helpful. I think after going through it too many times, it does less, but if you take a set of 1000 puzzles, you’ll still be getting stuff out of it after like 4 runs. After using it, I got 200 chess.com rapid, which might be a coincidence. Either way, it’s a good use of time to do tactics, and definitely better than online puzzles. The intermediate stuff might be a little advanced, so it might be more useful later (you should be able to get through around 12 puzzles in a half hour even if you don’t get all of them right)

It's literally just a combination book, the same as any other combination book out there, they just have a bunch of gobbledeegook thrown in at the start claiming it's some brand new thing.

They didn't even try to make it different. You'd think they might try to do some kind of "training sets" or something to elaborate on their design, but no it's just time yourself going through a whole section and then try to beat that.

As a combination book it looks alright but the authors act like they've invented something new when it's just the wheel.

Yeah, I’d agree. I think the process is good (as long as you don’t do too many sets,) but there’s nothing different about it compared to other tactics books. That being said, it’s a pretty high quality tactics book, with good explanations

wild

ok bet

Why do you warn against doing too many repetitions? I believe that doing many reps of the problem set is the idea with this book - repeat until you can do them almost instantly is the goal.

After too many times, you start to memorize puzzles, so you don't have to really practice calculating. I think once you're able to go through it relatively quickly, the puzzles are still helpful, but a new puzzle set might be more useful. It kind of goes against the woodpecker method, but the idea is to memorize the patterns and then move on before memorizing the specific positions

Some commonly given advice is that you should review a set of tactics over and over until you can do them almost instantly. This is meant to get you to recognize the patterns.

This makes sense for easy tactics, where you see a pattern and get to know the very short sequence of moves that results from it. I believe the idea is that you get to know the patterns so well that you recognize it even when it appears in your mind's eye at the end of longer sequences of moves.

But for more difficult tactics exercises (like those in the Woodpecker book) perhaps it makes less sense to repeat them until you memorise them. So I agree with you - although I'm not certain about this!

Yeah, It's kind of hard to know for sure.