Smith/Tikkanen: The Woodpecker Method (hardcover) metadata-enriched Mark Dvoretsky — A Professional

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Sokolov has won against world champions Garry Kasparov

Obodchuk has created an easy-to-handle toolbox for amateur chess players of intermediate level

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His best-seller Timman's Titans won the English Chess Federation's Book of the Year award in 2017

Smith/Tikkanen: The Woodpecker Method (hardcover) metadata-enriched Mark Dvoretsky — A ProfessionalThe Woodpecker Method is the name given by Axel Smith to a training system developed by his compatriot and co author Hans Tikkanen. After training with his method in 2010, Tikkanen achieved three GM norms within a seven week period. The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It's not a lazy shortcut to success hard work is