All tactics books needed to go from beginner to master level.

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Gray_gogy

I wanted to know what would all the tactics resources be that I would need to get to master level at chess. Currently I'm 1400 rapid in chess.com and 2100 puzzles. I'm planning on perhaps woodpecker methoding all the resources to hammer in the patterns. So like what would be all the patterns that I would need to know? Let's even assume that I'm a complete beginner, which books would suffice me to get to 1000 rating if I completed them and then repeated few times? Which books from 1000 to 1200? 1200 to 1600? 1600 to 1800? 1800 to 2000?
I would like to perhaps start from the 1000 level so that I can make sure to make the basic patterns automatic. But there are so many puzzle books and it's hard to know which is for which level, which to do first, how many to do of the same level etc. So just naming one more tactics book isn't helpful. If I could just have a list of books that with a total of say 5,000 to 10,000 puzzles (or more as I wouldn't really know) that would suffice the tactics portion of my chess study to get to 2000. Like starting with an easy book and then when that book becomes easy I move on to one slightly harder and so on until about 2000 level. I would prefer books because I plan on repeating the puzzles and keeping track of the incorrect ones which would be annoying with an online resource. It's also nice to grow a chess library haha.

Gray_gogy

Oh, I also plan on doing the woodpecker method book itself. How much would that suffice me? Would that collection of 1000 puzzles be all the puzzles I would need up to a certain level, say 1800 if I kept repeating them? 

tygxc

https://www.amazon.com/Chess-5334-Problems-Combinations-Games/dp/1579125549 
It worked for Polgar

Gray_gogy

I just got that book recently, I do believe it falls in the list I need but it only works on mate in 1, 2, and 3. I need a comprehensive list that if I do I won't need any other book until 2000, that I would only need to repeat if I was still weak tactically.

Gray_gogy

Does anyone have any more input?

JamesColeman

It certainly never hurts to drill tactics but you need practical OTB experience as well to reach master level. Tactics are just one piece of the puzzle. If you ONLY do tactics…well - law of diminishing returns and all that.