Correlation between Chess.com Ratings and Tactics Trainer Rating

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The_Brain9

Hey guys, I've noticed I've been struggling with my ELO ratings (1028 Rapid, 763 Blitz) while my Tactics Trainer rating is almost the highest it's ever been (1890). So I'd like to run an informal experiment to test whether "Chess is [actually] 90% tactics." Your response can be as detailed or informal as you want, just try to follow the rules below. So, if you could, please submit to me your tactics trainer score ON CHESS.COM to keep an equal measure across the data, as well as your Live rating or Correspondence ("Daily") rating. If it's your live rating, please specify the time control below. You can find all your info for this under Home --> Stats.

A). Bullet (2 mins or under)

B). Blitz (3-10 mins)

C). Rapid (10 mins or more)

D). Correspondence

ALSO, please include the approximate # of games you've played in that time bracket and # of problems in Tactics Trainer.

**If you'd like to share any thoughts on this subject too you are welcome to do that. Once I collect as much data as possible, I will edit this post and add my results!! Thanks for this opportunity!!

*Here's my example post:

-My tactics trainer score is 1890 with 3,002 attempts.

-I play mostly Blitz score 763 and about 1,500 games played.

-The rest of the time I have a score of 1028 in Rapid with about 250 games.

-My Correspondence/"Daily" rating is 1360 with 170 games played - would probably be around 1550 if I hadn't lost almost 60% of games on running out of time the last 90 days. 

My theory/story: My idea on how much Tactics trainer score relates to Live/correspondence rating is that chess rating is probably around 65% tactics (not the 90% I've often heard from quotes) and 35% intuition, planning, strategy, etc.- however you want to group those. 

My story is a bit weird - I discovered chess about 14 years ago, in 2008, when I was 14 and studied and played it intensely for about 3 years until 2011, which is when I achieved all my highest ratings (~1500 in Rapid, ~1400 in Blitz) and my Tactics Trainer was around 1600 then. I played many longer games then which is a frequent piece of advice for beginners to best improve to develop planning, calculation, concentration, etc. I stopped studying and playing seriously after those 3 years and would come back for maybe 4-8 months at a time every few years- enough to knock the rust off and remember tactical patterns but not enough to regain my planning, strategy, calculation, etc. I'm focused on actual study and commitment picking chess up again this time around for about the last 4 months and slowly increasing my ratings. I've probably played enough over the years to retain my tactical pattern recognition but not enough to remember all the other stuff I've mentioned, which is why I think my Tactics Trainer rating is almost the highest it's ever been yet my ratings in live chess aren't close to my all-time highs when I first studied and read chess books, learned master games, etc.  That also explains why my Correspondence/”Daily” rating is pretty high compared to my live ratings because during it I have a lot more time to think about planning, calculation, and strategy instead of quick, live games that depend on your first instinct a lot more.

OpenSquirrel
Tactics 2400 around 5000 puzzles done
Daily 1390 185 games
Problem is in a puzzle I know there’s a solution in chess I’m trying to find one that may not be there plus I need to learn how to get to these good positions in a game that would be the starting point of a tactical position. 🐿
danjd90

Peak puzzle rating was around 2250 in December, currently floating around 2100, but tends to vary from 1950-2250 depending on how much I play/practice.

Rapid rating is 1150 or so. Blitz is right below 1000. Those are close enough to the peaks and current rating to be accurate I think.

Lower level puzzles seem to hinge on finding hanging pieces and clever checkmates... sometimes decoys or distracting dominant pieces. But as you jump over 2000 they seem to become a lot more positional. There will be some forced sacrifice or something, but the "forced line with best play" is a lot harder to find. They'll have a lot of plans that are just winning but it's hard to find optimum play.

 

If someone has seen a database recording this data, I'm interested in getting my hands on it for a statistics class I am helping to teach in university. I've seen the one comparing chess.com, lichess, uscf, and fide ratings (I have some recent version on my computer I think).