tactics rating vs actual rating

I'm a little puzzled: when I solve problems my rating is at around 1800-2000, when I'm playng my rating is 1300-1400 why such a descrepancy?  What should I do to get my playing rating up to my problem rating?

Thanks

Chess.com doesn't try to make the ratings similar.  Your tactics rating has nothing to do with your game ratings.

- - - - I would guess that there is the way - - - that one' s rating is calculated but - - - I would think that a more accurate and precise - - - measurement would be to take the ratings of all the games you have WON ( ignor the games you have lost ) and then average the ratings of all the players you have won against 

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- no logical or factual basis  --  just my opinion

Dalephilly, thank you for the time you took to actually look at my games, I'm truly impressed with your willingness to help.  I have to admit, I've never analyzed my own games.  In trying to improve my game, how do you recommend I allocate my time  per each activity:

tactics trainer       %

chess mentor         %

playing games        %

analyzing games     %

study openings        %

I can only devote ~7-10 hrs/week to chess at this time.

Thanks everyone, your input is much appreciated.

tactics trainer  25     %

chess mentor   25      %

playing games   35     %

analyzing games  15   %

study openings   0     %

About the openings, just learn the main moves for one opening with black and one with white. e4/e5 would be a good choise, or maby the french with black. About the queens gambit, all you need to know is the two first moves (1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6). That should'nt take more than 10 minutes.

You should get an endgame book, and study that.

Playing 30%

Analysis 30%

Tactics 10%

Opening 20%

Chess mentor 10%

Analysis = Strategy+Tactics

Playing not more than 2 games a day(long)

Chess mentor is new for me and not much idea about it.

Opening-minimum 1 as white and 2 as black

Trolling 45%

Kibitzing 23%

Tactics Trainer 10%

Mentor 10%

Endless Quiz 8%

Beer 4%

One notable difference is that with Tactics Trainer you know that you are supposed to look for decisive tactics whereas in an actual game you don't know it.

I have a 2610 tactics trainer rating, but I'm only about 2000 rated at online chess. My rating has been going up though.

Its funny I dont even think tactics trainer is the best way to practice tactics lol. Makes you try to guess too much because of the time limit. You should work at a puzzle book where you have to calculate and see the variations before giving the solution.

Tactics trainer is better at finding how good you are at tactics, not making you better.

well my tactics trainer is about 100 below my CC right now, which is pretty close considering how quickly ratings change on chess.com..... It's probably because you're looking at the puzzle as if it's a puzzle whereas when you play you don't look at it as if it's a puzzle.

I'd spend time on opening THEORY as opposed to opening lines. Since a lot of players at lower levels will go out of book relatively quick, its better to just intuitively know where your pieces belong to start the game. Aside from that I wouldn't spend that much time studying, I'd just try to continuously play players that are slightly better than myself.

Thank you for input everyone.  I seems like most of you placed high value on analyzing your own games.  I analyzed my last game through Chess.com computer analysis.  It took me much longer to analyse it then just to actually play it! 

1.  Do you guys feel chess.com analyser is all I need or do you recommend other ways?

2. As I was analysing the game I did not understand the rational for some computer recommended moves.  Blunders I get,  "mistakes" sometimes, and "inacuracies" did not always make sense.  How conserned should I be with those at this time?

I find it the opposite. My game rating is near 1750, but training rating is around 1500. I'm pretty sure this is because

a) I spend at least an hour, sometimes a day on most moves, yet have a minute for the trainer

b) I have an idea of what my plan is and most pitfalls. Being dropped in to a training game, esp the 1500+ examples, you have to first work out what the objective is (capture a piece, trap the king, escape, fork etc) which takes a few seconds, and then devise the best plan. Lost count the number of times thinking up a complicated series of moves to capture a queen, only for the answer to be a simple move to checkmate.

Find these both infuriating and fascinating.

I cant believe that some peoples tactic ratings are so high - amazing and good for you - 'Phelon' posted a tactics rating of 2610!!!!!!, I am well impressed I struggle to get to 1200

As said earlyer: Tactics is just one part of the game.

Think of it this way:

Tactics only work when you have a won position, in many normal games you have that puzzle in only one of your moves, in an actuall game you "never" know when that moment is, when you should take your time and search for tactics.

All books/articles on strategy will help you.

(After learning more abut strategy and how to assess a positon you develop a better intiution and you know when you should calculate tactical blows and when it's time out the window! Solwing puzzles allso gives you a better intuition on tactics)

Generally when I look at a position I can just see the tactics right off the bat. Pattern recognition will do that for you.

Tactics and positional play are intermixed. One of the best uses of tactics is to improve your position, and to deteriorate your opponents.