There is a video of IM Kostya Kavutskiy doing the Woodpecker method on YouTube. Essentially its the same puzzles as in the book but a bit easy to do because you don't need to setup the pieces on your board or flick through the pages to see if you got the answer right. That doesn't mean it is necessarily better, you'd have to ask someone who owns the book.
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Ok thanks!
Dec 11, 2021
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If you have an account on the Site Who Must Not Be Named, check out chesspecker.com.
Dec 11, 2021
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I'd suggest you to interview a woodpecker and learn the method directly from it.
Vincidroid wrote:
I'd suggest you to interview a woodpecker and learn the method directly from it.
Wow....what a suggestion lol
Dec 11, 2021
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For my lifestyle I couldn’t imagine doing it out the book.
Doing it with the Chessable app is so convenient.
I do sessions throughout the day when I have a time gap completing 5-10 puzzles each time. Only way I’d be able to get it done.
Currently working on my first cycle doing just the “easy” exercises which surprisingly aren’t that easy.
Goodluck!
Doing it with the Chessable app is so convenient.
I do sessions throughout the day when I have a time gap completing 5-10 puzzles each time. Only way I’d be able to get it done.
Currently working on my first cycle doing just the “easy” exercises which surprisingly aren’t that easy.
Goodluck!
I’m getting the book this Christmas because I go on a few trips every year and don’t have wifi or cellular while in the plane so it’ll be fun just going through the tactics in the book. Also if I just want to take my eyes off screens for a little bit I can use the book.
I prefer books for studying tactics. The way I normally do them is get a pen and paper and actually write down my analysis and once I do about 50 problems or so I look up the answer. I guess the way I do them takes longer but I find that doing them that way helps me think through the problems more thoroughly. When doing problems online I have a bad habit of not calculating all the variations to the very end and also in general make moves more quickly than I should.
I'm thinking about buying the woodpecker method book and doing it during my vacation month.
I would like to know if during that month I should only do the book, or if it can be combined with other areas of study and playing games.
What do you recommend?
Thank you.
i think if you want to combine it with other things you should. Chess study should be enjoyable after all. I should note though that the woodpecker method is very grueling if you follow it strictly. The authors of the book did 8+hour study sessions. They were going after GM norms though. I haven't read much of the book but a former coach of mine told me about the method and had me do some training in it using a different book. She never specified how many hours to devote a session to it but I think the most I ever managed was 5 hours. I think if you want to combine it with something else like playing games, something you might try is training in the method a few days in a row and then have a game playing session day. Something I could also warn you about is that your play may actually get worse before it gets better. I remember after a few weeks training in the method I played in an OTB blitz tournament and had one of the worst performances of my career. I only won 1 game out of 7. The only player I beat was much lower rated than me. However, a short time after that I had one of my best performances. In a G45+45 league I scored 5.5/6.0 and my team won the championship that year.
I am going to get the woodpecker method book for Christmas as I have been wanting a tactic book or course. And I know of people the have used the book and found the tactics useful. But what are the differences between the Chessable course or the book, and which one would you recommend? Thank you all for reading my post!