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 first 10 exercises, and I think the quality is quite good. I consider my positional problem set as being ready to train.