Tactics +2000 but blitz bellow 1500

It is said that chess is 99% tactics. That if you want to reach 2000 the fastest way is to master tactics. That games under 2000 rating are usually decided because of the tactics..

I have reached 2000 elo in tactics on chess.com and I just even did 10 correct puzzles in a row. But my blitz and rapid rating is still below 1500. Either I somehow cannot utilize my tactics skills during my games or what they say about importance of tactics at this level is not true at all.

I just tried puzzles on lichess and I got easily rating 2000 there as well. But I played rapid OTB tournament today and scored peformance 1400 only. This is really strange

Tactics ratings are not equivalent to playing ratings. Also in general I would say lichess tactics rating is 500 points inflated compared to here and tempo

Yes but if you consider that there are basically 5 parts of the game (openings, middle game, strategy, endings and tactics) and people with 1500 or even less tactics rating regularly beat me I must be like 1000 elo in openings,middlegame, strategy or endings. If I am so superior to them in tactics I must be really bad in some other part of the game. So that would mean that tactics are not so important after all at this level

You have to remember that there is a difference in doing a tactic when you know there is a tactic and doing one when you don't know there is a tactic.

That's weird. My tactic ratings here is 2400s while my lichess tactic rating is in the 2100s.

I went thru your losses and I thought you played well. Your biggest issue seems to be time management and not thinking about what you're opponent might threaten. 

I don't think it's too odd.  I just started doing Lichess puzzles, and I am 2000 there.  Yet here on chess.com by Blitz rating is 1500.  (I play exclusively 10/0 games.)

Thank you very much breaker90 and WhatDidIMiss. This is very helpful. I have just realized that all of the puzzles I have been solving are from point of the view of attacking side. I have improved a lot at this, but I still struggle when it comes to awareness of opponents intentions and how to defend tactical threats. I am going to train defensive puzzles now, I believe this can really help me. I will also play longer games. Blitz games are just not for me. 

 i have 2000 in tactics but im  1848 in blitz, chess is not only tactics, of strategy too is important .... im very poor player in tactics, but see im 1925 fide... becouse there are others factors importants, psichology, estrategy ,defend , opennings  etc.

True. My advice is to focus less on tactics when this is happening. For myself, I easily hit 2000 tactics last year, but was only about 1200 USCF, and 1300 chess.com blitz. Now, my tactics rating is roughly the same, but my USCF rating is up to 1606, and my chess.com blitz is over 1700. I switched my focus more to Silman's books than tactics trainer. I also believe that there is no harm to playing blitz. It really helps in OTB play to be a good blitz player when time gets low. You can pull off a lot of swindles.

 anywhere to practice defensive tactics? those are more difficult to handle

Cos chess.com tactics are bogus! Play tactics in other sites, you will see so your real tactic rating!!

 I have chess.com tactics- 2400+, but in other sites, my tactics rating are 2300 and 1800 only. XD

So, chess.com tactics is about +400 bogus to me!!

@OP I'm on the same page. obviously its bogus as I already wrote many times. Strategy is probably the key. not 100% since nobody checked my games.

a tactic problem you Know there is a solution, usually of interest. in a game of 30 moves you've got 30 positions to eval in 3,5,10 min. total.

I believe with the easy availability of tactics trainers online, many (and I mean many) players from total patzers to experts, have gotten good in tactics and therefore, overall, the blitz (or bullet) rating keeps increasing. I notice many 1600+ players are already up to speed on most of the basic tactics in very fast games, even though their own tactics could only be 1900 or around 2000...and the "overall" level keeps increasing. What this means is that if anyone enters chess these days and plays fast games, they get hammered. 10 years ago, blitz of <1000 was considered rare. Nowadays it's common and taken as normal. So your blitz is a normal level. FYI, my Li__ss tactics is 2400+ which is probably top 0.05% there (even better than many titled players), yet my bullet rating is not anywhere near that although you get to execute tactics a lot in these games. There is a lot more to chess like studying openings and endgames which takes up A LOT of time.

there is a lot more to a chess game than just tactics. tactics is an indication of how much you can see and calculate but there is another more difficult aspect, when there are no tactics. As the saying goes, 'tactics is what to do when there is something to do, strategy is what to do when there is nothing to do.'