aarav4070 wrote:
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Hi...do you have a favorite chess tactics trainer besides the chess.com one?
tactical training project.
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Apr 7, 2021
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I use the Woodpecker method. I didn’t actually try the method, but I used the book as a puzzle book. Besides I solve a lot of chess.com. Like 7000+ puzzles on chess.com; 1000+ from the Woodpecker; and 1000+ on liche*s.
All of these help a lot in improving my calculation, but I also train my calculation with My Great Predecessors which is game analysis book, but one with deep and long variations
All of these help a lot in improving my calculation, but I also train my calculation with My Great Predecessors which is game analysis book, but one with deep and long variations
marqumax wrote:
I use the Woodpecker method. I didn’t actually try the method, but I used the book as a puzzle book. Besides I solve a lot of chess.com. Like 7000+ puzzles on chess.com; 1000+ from the Woodpecker; and 1000+ on liche*s.
All of these help a lot in improving my calculation, but I also train my calculation with My Great Predecessors which is game analysis book, but one with deep and long variations
All of these help a lot in improving my calculation, but I also train my calculation with My Great Predecessors which is game analysis book, but one with deep and long variations
thats a very interesting approach with my great predecessors. I read the first 4 volumes of that and I found myself doing that too. I wasnt really trying to work on calculation or tactics though...I was just trying to get through the book...like you said there are a lot of long variations and if you try to set up a board and pieces for each one it would take a very long time to get through the book.
Okay...I asked around a bit and the consenss seems to be that the most popular free tactical trainers are 1, chess.com 2. Lichess 3. Chesstempo. 4. Chess24.. I played around with the different trainers enough to establish something of a baseline. So moving foward I think I'll do 5 a day at each site and see how I improve as I study the books. My current ratings are as follows.
Chess.com 2118
Lichess 2008
Chess24 1613
Chesstempo 1400
The first book I will start with will be Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant chess sacrifices and combinations.
Hi everyone.....I play on a team in the 45+45 league over there on FICS. We just completed the T81 season and we did very well. We won the championship and my personal result was the best Ive ever done with 5 wins and 1 draw. Now that the season is over there is a long break until the next season, so I am sort of looking for a way to keep my motivation up to continue to work hard on chess during this break from league play. I may play in the ICC G3 qualifiers and championship that takes next week but after that Im not sure what. Maybe continue reading the Five Crowns book by Yasser Seirawan and Jonathon tisdell I started reading a while back or perhaps work on the pile of chess life issues that have been accumulating in my study. Another option could be to arrange some training games with some friendly titled players but Im not sure Im ready for that just yet. So another thought is tactical training. A couple of seasons ago my team also won the championship and by the end of that season my rating climbed to 2001. Unfortunatey, the next two seasons after that we didnt do well and my rating went all the way down to 1801. Sometime during that struggling time I analyzed some of my games with WIM Anna Kantane and we realized that I really needed to work on tactics so she suggested I study Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors and work through that book 5 times and then move on to the Woodpecker method by Axel Smith and Hans Tikkanen. Well Ive completed the 5 laps through the Hays book and feel it had an influence on my recent successful season where my rating rose from 1801 ro 1948. However, Im not really feeling like moving on to the woodpecker method just yet....I feel more like going through the same process with some other tactics books I have as I did the Hays book...that is working through them 5 times before moving on to another one, so I think thats what I'll do. I wanted to start this thread to keep my motivation high and keep track of my progress. From time to time I'll make a post how I am progressing with the books and how my various puzzle ratings are doing. I've been doing puzzles here on chess.com for a while and recently started doing the puzzles on chess24. Are there any other ones I should also use to monitor my progress?