I wouldn't say that at all, no offense. 'In chess, everything rests on tactics,' as Petrosian said.
Positional understanding is extremely important, primarily: evaluation positions, finding the right move, etc.
i have the woodpecker on chessable, when i started i found the easy exercises to be quite challenging, i have been told the easy puzzles are rated 1500-1600 chess.com rating. either way i found it useful, it has helped a lot. i have now moved on to the intermediate section of the book
Woodpeckers have a special physiology as far as I know. I cannot recommend banging your head to the wall 10.000 times.
No indeed!
My first chess book was Winning Chess: Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld.
I recommend it.
I recommend it.
@Seltie Or perhaps I could be aggro and hateful to just one person. Seems to be your approach.
You have been abusive to hundreds and hundreds of people, many of whom left.
It's destructive and hostile and idiotic, to say the absolute and very least.
It's destructive and hostile and idiotic, to say the absolute and very least.
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