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What Hacker News says
- I built a Chess app called SpicyChess(https://spicychess.com) that has a training component which leverages spaced repetition and strict time constraint to increase your pattern recognition ability for tactical motifs. SpicyChess also allows you to "bookmark" a puzzle for review later on. The philosophy behind the training regiment is inspired by the following two books which have been very helpful in improving my game: reading Rapid Chess Improvement, The Woodpecker Method.
- By "Woodpecker method" do you mean this:
https://www.amazon.com/Woodpecker-Method-Axel-Smith-Tikkanen...
?
This is why HN is great -- appears to be an amazing book.
- I'm at 2250 on Lichess, and I consider openings a waste of time. Ok, I confess I wasted a lot of time on them in the past, and my rating was rather constant for years and years, until I started tactics via the woodpecker method. It's hard work, but definitely worth it. (quite a few of the easier exercises are opening tactics)
https://www.amazon.com/Woodpecker-Method-Axel-Smith-Tikkanen...
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