Woodpecking
Yesterday I had been busy by investigating a "standard" bishop sacrifice on h7. I wrote down all preconditions. Today I had it on the board. I could tick off all the checkboxes and sacced the cleric. Stockfish showed me that I could have sacced the lancer even one move earlier, which I have to investigate yet. Woodpecking I acquired the Woodpecker method 2 positional play The method seems to be heavily inspired by MDLM. If I understand it right, then both Hans Tikkanen and Axel Smith became grandmaster with the method. Technically, there is nothing wrong with the method. All three are a proof that the method works. I would like to add the following remarks: All 3 authors don't stress enough what is the most important point of their method: understanding of the subject to the highest degree possible. The authors put far too much emphasis on speed. Speed is totally irrelevant, since speed is a result of the training, not a necessity during the training. I have done the fir...