najdf's comments

I'm curious how spaced repetition is applicable to tactics? I don't dispute it, it's been popular since The Woodpecker Method [1], but I never quite got the point. Intuitively, spaced repetition helps memorization, but tactics is about learning patterns and maybe generalizing ideas. What's your take on what it brings to tactics?

[1] https://qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/327/the_woodpecker_met...

If you don't enjoy studying openings, you can get far by just being aware of opening ideas and common traps, and spending the rest of your time on midgame and endgame. Memorizing thousands of opening lines is really only for 2200+ Elo players (global top 20,000), even though Chessable and other marketing teams are doing their best to convince amateurs otherwise.

https://listudy.org is a brilliant open source opening spaced repetition trainer. Another one is https://chessdriller.org, though you need to provide the moves yourself for that one. There's also https://chessmadra.com, but I believe their backend is closed-source.