For *basic* tactical patterns, which is what there is in Bain, this is almost exactly what you want, to develop pattern recognition.
However, you need to be able to try and apply this in your games, which comes through a thought process in slow chess.
Remember to follow the advice I gave you! In the last game you've played rapid, that clearly wasn't the case - safety checking, like tactical recognition, takes a lot of repetition in slow games to become "automatic" when you're playing.
Hi,
I am working on the exercises of Bain's book "chess tactics for students".
I did it once first chapter by chapter by I thought it was too easy (even if I didn't find the answer for some of them) as the exercises where by tactical motive. So I put them in anki (a spaced repetition system) and I am doing them randomly, so I don't know if it's a pin, a skewer or anything else.
I practice them until I can do them in a few seconds, if I take too much time I do it again. I want to develop automatisms.
Do you think it's a good way to improve? What would you suggest?
And is it better to do them randomly or by motiv or both?
Thanks,