Difference between puzzle rating and live chess

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JockeQ
brasileirosim skrev:
JockeQ wrote:

I'm 1100 rapid and I managed to get up to 2300+ puzzle rating. But it took me on average ten minutes per puzzle which I did not find optimal for training. And not that fun either. 

Now I spend average 1-2 minutes per puzzle but rating dropped to 2000.

It seems that the 10 minutes were more productive: you was forced to calculate further, something that we should do when playing chess. I am surprised to see that your rapid rating is so slow, perhaps you are regularly missing something in the opening, or your defensive skills are underdeveloped. What do you see when you analyze your games?

I am really bad playing fast chess. My ratings are approx 1400 (daily), 1100 (rapid), 700 (blitz) and 400 (bullit). I started playing chess a little over a year ago, beeing in my 50's maybe my brain is just too slow? 😁 When I have long enough time too think I can play some decent chess but with any sort of time control I start to make a lot of mistakes.

 

And I also find it easier to think methodological when solving a puzzle. I know there is a solution giving me a winning position and I go through the different options. In a real game I don't really know what to look for.

JuhoNieminen
JockeQ wrote:

I am really bad playing fast chess. My ratings are approx 1400 (daily), 1100 (rapid), 700 (blitz) and 400 (bullit). I started playing chess a little over a year ago, beeing in my 50's maybe my brain is just too slow? 😁 When I have long enough time too think I can play some decent chess...

Your blitz rating will get closer to rapid rating in time, I'm sure. Bullet is a waste of time mostly. My Daily is 1900+, because I think every move carefully, and my blitz abilities are slowly improving to 1300. Puzzle rush is getting better also. Slow chess will slowly improve tactical understanding that reflect to fast chess after some years of active playing.

Mr_Trouble

I posted a couple of years back. Then I had 2034 puzzles, and 834 blitz.  Now it’s 2357 and 850. So maybe every 16 points blitz is worth 323 puzzles?

1kbro1

my disparity is high too, my peak blitz was 1005 (some days ago) and now my puzzle rating is 2116, idk why this happens to me. maybe i get some bad positions from openings

brasileirosim

Perhaps. In some days I can solve puzzles as they would be incredible simple. Just now I solved 10 in a row. The same can happen in rapid, but very very rarely. In these days I ask myself why these 1500 players are playing like beginners. In most days however I often blunder first. 

brasileirosim
1kbro1 wrote:

my disparity is high too, my peak blitz was 1005 (some days ago) and now my puzzle rating is 2116, idk why this happens to me. maybe i get some bad positions from openings

I saw your last game. You began well, but soon missed the win of a pawn twice. It was not the opening, but simply tactics. In the games you have to check if you can win material. A pawn can decide the game, especially a central pawn. Another think I noted: bring new pieces into the game. You took too long to develop your second rook, for example.

Bheeshmaparva

I have blitz rating of 1650+ right now and puzzle rating of 2700. I don't see any relationship between these ratings. When you solve puzzles, you are very sure that there's some tactic here and I am here to find it. But, that's not the case in implementing the same in live chess. You have to find the pattern within certain time. This becomes challenging for most of the people at intermediate level. That's why these two things are quite different. Mere puzzle solving and spotting the puzzle in real chess. 

1kbro1
brasileirosim escreveu:
1kbro1 wrote:

my disparity is high too, my peak blitz was 1005 (some days ago) and now my puzzle rating is 2116, idk why this happens to me. maybe i get some bad positions from openings

I saw your last game. You began well, but soon missed the win of a pawn twice. It was not the opening, but simply tactics. In the games you have to check if you can win material. A pawn can decide the game, especially a central pawn. Another think I noted: bring new pieces into the game. You took too long to develop your second rook, for example.

Yeah, just saw it. That central pawn was free to take multiple times, i think that sometimes i get a tunnel vision to the opponent's attack and don't see some tactics or free pieces on the board.

1webd3v

not really sure whats going on with me.

2078 puzzle rating spanning 4303 puzzles attempted at a little over 30 hous of solid puzzles,

and its not like i spend minutes and days on 1 puzzle to get that score. i tend to beat the puzzle in half of the suggested time including many 1800-2400 puzzles solved in :05 vs a :30 - :45 suggested solved time. the quick solve time suggests i should fare rather well in bullet rapid and blitz but its the opposite

daily at 1220

rapid at 900

blitz at 700

what gives

brasileirosim
1kbro1 wrote:
brasileirosim escreveu:
1kbro1 wrote:

my disparity is high too, my peak blitz was 1005 (some days ago) and now my puzzle rating is 2116, idk why this happens to me. maybe i get some bad positions from openings

I saw your last game. You began well, but soon missed the win of a pawn twice. It was not the opening, but simply tactics. In the games you have to check if you can win material. A pawn can decide the game, especially a central pawn. Another think I noted: bring new pieces into the game. You took too long to develop your second rook, for example.

Yeah, just saw it. That central pawn was free to take multiple times, i think that sometimes i get a tunnel vision to the opponent's attack and don't see some tactics or free pieces on the board.

As we all! There are cases where taking a central pawn is dangerous, especially when we didn’t castle. 

checkmate_kate

My current chess.com stats today:

Games
708


Puzzles
835

Ratings:


Daily
838

Rapid
501

Daily 960
866

Blitz
191

Bullet
160

Puzzles
1353!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

and I don't think it's just a delay because games take more time, because I'm still losing to other 500 rapid players.

Please: What does it mean???

FrostHex13

I am 1400 in rapid and 200 ish in puzzels

FrostHex13

@checkmate_kate, do u lose to 500 rated rapid player by time? Or by checkmate?

checkmate_kate
JoelGM2013 wrote:

@checkmate_kate, do u lose to 500 rated rapid player by time? Or by checkmate?

both. it's maybe half and half or so

checkmate_kate
JoelGM2013 wrote:

I am 1400 in rapid and 200 ish in puzzels

that's interesting, we have the opposite problem

FrostHex13

if u lose by time try playing classical games with lower rated players

FrostHex13

and also play with bots to sharpen your skills

FrostHex13

since you are a diamond member u will have access to all bots

checkmate_kate

ok i will try both those things. thank you

 

what are you going to do?

FrostHex13

I play rapid games, and also use bots.