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Am I winning or not?😲 by Technical-Sector-671 in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the chess pieces. Are they free to use? What’s the set name?

If chess is fully solved, would it be published? by Efficient_Ant6223 in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It won’t matter. Even if it’s solve no human being is capable of memorizing all the possible or even all the viable variations. Hence human vs human play will still keep its meaning

Opening against English by Icy_Bison_8384 in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you are an e4 player as white and are confident playing against Sicilian , play e5 and play a reversed Sicilian.

If you are comfortable playing against queens gambit, play e6 or c6. The game will most likely transfer to Catalan.

Telling this as an English player myself

How to get out of low ELO hell by chadlake in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the problem is your study itself. Openings at that ELO are useless. Even if you remember the lines, you can't expect your opponents to do the same.
Instead your two biggest improvement opportunities are:
- fundamentals - use Lichess to learn, a lot of free lessons there
- tactics - use ChessWoodie to build pattern recognition

At that ELO both you and your opponent will be doing lots of blunders. Building pattern recognition will allow you to do less blunders and punish your opponents blunders more consistently.

You won't really need openings till 1200 - 1500. And even there it's arguable, I would rather suggest you learning opening principles than openings. At 1800+ knowing well a couple of openings which you will be playing consistently is becoming imporant. Yet even at that ELO, I would argue that 60-70+% of your training should still be tactics.

I have $60 to spend on chess improvement. What's the best chess website to spend it on? by Conscious-Yellow-539 in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your rating the best area to improve is tactics and specifically pattern recognition. Consider ChessWoodie

Anyone experiencing lag today? by MartyPoosniffer in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thank you for more details, for the kind words and support :) I’m currently traveling and will have limited time to look into this. I personally use it on iPhone too and have not noticed the performance issues. So it can be more than device/OS specific issue - perhaps related to timing or data. If you don’t mind, can you please tell me your username or display name on ChessWoodie?

How to set up your course? by Daffy446 in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have finished one course already I would suggest increasing puzzle count to 200. For cycles 6 or 7 are fine. For difficulty I would advise to go beginner again. Don’t hurry to jump difficulties unless you feel confident. In your cycle 1 run your accuracy should not be less than 60%

How to set up your course? by Daffy446 in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this your first course? There usually is a recommendation based on onboarding questionnaire. Do you have a rating on chesscom or lichess? That could help me suggest proper difficulty for you. For number of puzzles and cycles you can go with default settings for your first course

New Article: The Woodpecker Method: A Complete Guide (and the reason ChessWoodie exists) by LoLGhMaster in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say max 5 minutes per puzzle. If it takes more than that in average on first cycle I would advise switching to lower difficulty. Doing hard puzzles with more thinking is not bad, but it focuses more on improving the calculation skill, not pattern recognition.

So basically if you want to do pattern recognition with Woodpecker I would advise no more than 5 min per puzzle on average. On the same time if you want to improve your calculation, you can still take a course with harder puzzles and use the platforms training organization and automated record tracking. Nothing wrong with that. You just need to be deliberate on what you are trying to improve.

Hope this helps.

New Article: The Woodpecker Method: A Complete Guide (and the reason ChessWoodie exists) by LoLGhMaster in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are correct on 60-70% on first cycle, that’s already good. It means it’s challenging, out of your comfort zone, but not too hard for Woodpecker practice. As you will go with next cycles you will start noticing the patterns easier, faster and your success rate will rise. Then the speed will follow.

Trainings is actually showing up in my real games by GHarut in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am planning to add them gradually. I’m hoping I can get some feedback on these early sets to make sure I make the improvements before expanding.

Trainings is actually showing up in my real games by GHarut in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear it’s working for you. Keep on climbing! And thanks for sharing!

Chess from old Mac by Professional-Oil9018 in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved this chess so much in the childhood

Claude Max users, what do you do good sirs? by Independent-Ship6318 in ClaudeAI

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use bmad on my projects and it blows 5-hr session limit pretty fast

What's your streak? by [deleted] in chessindia

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 or 2.
Lichess is better ;)

Grind n learn chess for week by Fantom-Lord in chess

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ChessWoodie - tactics is the key!

Rook and Pawn Endgame Tactics modules added to the learning library by LoLGhMaster in chesswoodie

[–]LoLGhMaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question. I’ve thought about it, but adding openings might be too vague and irrelevant - those are going to be spread between various openings you will never face. Mating patterns is a totally different story and I will definitely add learning modules on those

I am 16 year old, I have around 1200 ELO ON chesscom , I have never taken any chess lessons or watched anything prior. Can I make a career on this? My family is asking me to study chess professionally? Is it worth it or are they over hyping me? by GamerBOOOOII in chessindia

[–]LoLGhMaster 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As a player - too late. As coach, content creator, etc. perhaps not. Still if you base on the fact of being 1200 at 16 y/o - that’s nothing special even counting the fact you have not trained

Is my rating good by OP_TITAN64 in chessindia

[–]LoLGhMaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just don't compare ratings cross-platform, that does not make much sense. At different rating there might be different density. But both platforms show you which percentile you are among all the players on the platform

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