Learn the eight patterns

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1 Pattern 5 Standard Mostly middlegames · usually a rook move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 2 Pattern 8 Standard Mostly middlegames · usually a rook move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 3 Pattern 7 Standard Mostly middlegames · usually a queen move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 4 Pattern 1 Harder Mostly middlegames · usually a rook move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 5 Pattern 6 Harder Mostly endgames · usually a rook move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 6 Pattern 3 Harder Mostly middlegames · usually a pawn move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 7 Pattern 2 Hardest Mostly middlegames · usually a queen move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill 8 Pattern 4 Hardest Mostly openings · usually a pawn move Not started · 4 to try, then 36 to drill

Each pattern takes about ten minutes: four positions you try cold, the same four with the engine's answers, then 36 fresh ones to drill. How these were found →