Woodpecker method

The woodpecker method, Honestly the best results from any form of studying I have done. Haven't won any more on average than before, but the quality of the games according to game review has increased significantly. Just wanted to share hope it helps

I am the woodpecker method’s biggest hater ama

Okay, why?

Its a way of studying tactical patterns. You do sets of 500 of the same puzzles 7 times in a row. First round you take your time and study each position. Then every time after you try to cut your time in half. When you can donit consistently at a specific rating you move up the rating

It's only good for helping you improve online, it doesn't help with OTB play

It neglects calculation in favour of intuition. Calculation is way more important than intuition

Most people only play online. And why wouldn't help tactical vision otb

It teaches bad practice

You should never just rely on your intuition to make a move

Agree to disagree. With no explanation for your reasoning I just cant agree with you. Also none of the answers are very constructive. Blank statments dont really help explain your views

I've given an explanation to my reasoning wdym lol

Intuition is useful for finding candidate moves

But once you have your candidate moves you need to calculate them all bruh

Calculation >>> intuition

I agree that no one should only rely on intuition but it doesn't teach that. It's just a way to improve your pattern recognition skills.

But doing a bunch of puzzles as quickly as possible isn't exactly encouraging calculation

Its not meant to improve caclutions , the point is to increase tactical pattern recognition, and it does it well. So again if your its biggest hater then why? Because it not doing a job it was never interned to do isn't a good reason to dislike a proven method

I hear you. I look at the woodpecker method as a tool rather than a thinking system. So this study method helps with pattern recognition but it should be supplemented with calculation work.

I'm sure you've seen beginners who wonder why they cannot spot tactics in games even though they dedicate time on regular puzzles. The issue is that in a regular puzzle you know there is a solution and sometimes you can brute force the answer but in a game no one tells you that a tactic exist. But if you've drilled a bunch positions sometimes you "sense" that something is there and then you verify with calculation. But if you didn't have that pattern ingrained you might not even considered a move and instead calculate something else, thus missing your chance.

To be clear I'm not saying intuition is the end all be all. Just that it is helpful.

I think intuition is very overrated but that's a bit of a hot take

Maybe at around 1700 OTB and up pretty much everyone considers the same moves. It's pretty rare that someone plays a move that their opponent just never even looks at

#15 I can definitely understand this perspective though, I just disagree

That's fair

I'm curious though, if you don't like woodpecker what would you do instead?

What did your tactical training look like on your way to 2500?

Aagard, Yusupov, chesstempo and OTB

Also I get some handmade puzzles from coaches