Best Site for Woodpecker Tactics Training

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Avatar of randy_carson

I've looked at a bunch of chess sites for the best place to implement the Woodpecker method.

I don't need tens or hundreds of thousands of puzzles that I solve one time...I want a set of 1,000 (or so) good basic tactics that I solve again and again until I have the patterns memorized and can complete the set in less and less time.

Chessable has a course that presents puzzles and tracks time to solve and success percentages per repeat cycle. I'm just not sure the puzzles they chose are the best for my rating (1000-1200). Perhaps it is the best solution, but I'm looking for options.

Any recommendations?

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Avatar of deepbluender

It looks like ChessTraining.app has been shut down... In 2026, Disco Chess is probably the purest woodpecker method tool available out there, and it's free. Or you can get the "official" Woodpecker Method course from Chessable, but at your level (~1000 rating) it is almost guaranteed to be too slow and difficult because of the limited set of puzzles available in the original book.