tactics trainer correlation

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jurassicmark

How does your tactics trainer rating correlate to your play?  I've been playing horrible chess for a few weeks now, but I have my highest ever tactics trainer rating.  Converesly, when I was playing some of my best chess about a month ago I specifically remember struggling with the tactics trainer.  Any thoughts?  FYI, I play live standard chess with fairly long controls.

TrachemySScripta

I remember when I drew against you in live chess standard, and I gained +4 points. When we played chess, you were 1517, and I was 1507. Now, I am 1651, and you are 1454!?

TrachemySScripta

I believe you lost nearly 80 rating points for live standard. That is bad. I however, I can help you. Play chess only before the sun sets, while it is daytime. Play chess in a completely quiet location with plenty of sunlight around you. Be scared of losing. Never get too arrogant. Hold your head like Kasparov and Ivanchuk. (Remember, you are in a completely silent, isolated environment, so no one can see you).

TrachemySScripta

Spend time to think about each of your moves during a 30-minute chess game. Once, in a 30-minute chess game which began as a Ruy Lopez, I spent about 3-minutes per move in the opening, and I got an extremely favorable position in the middlegame in which I had an advanced e-pawn, and my opponent's knight on c6 was pinned to his bishop on b7.

jurassicmark

Thanks for the comments.  Specifically, I was asking if anybody found a correlation between their tactics training rating and their live chess rating.  

TrachemySScripta

Well, I currently have a tactics trainer rating of exactly 1600, and my live chess standard rating is 1651, so there may be a rough relationship.

TrachemySScripta

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ChessOfPlayer

Live chess rating are different to Standard chess ratings (about 200 points in difference) .  Tactic trainer rating are again very different. 

mkkuhner

General observation:  if you study hard and learn some new concepts, your gameplay rating will go DOWN first.  Eventually it will go up.  I proved this to myself several times as a teenager.  So I'm not surprised if there TT rating and gameplay rating fail to correlate.

I believe this happens because it takes time to digest new material and incorporate it into your game.  With TT it can also happen because TT pushes for snap sacrifices and combinations, and if you develop the habit of playing sacks before analyzing "because it must be there" you will lose a lot of games.  I am embarrassed to say I lost a 10-minute game by snapping off a perfectly TT-like, but unsound, queen sack....

ChessOfPlayer
mkkuhner wrote:

  I am embarrassed to say I lost a 10-minute game by snapping off a perfectly TT-like, but unsound, queen sack....

lol why would you sac your queen if you had not calculated?  You need to calculate in TT every time aswell,  not just because the solution probably is a dramatic sac.

D-mate19
Agreed. I have a rating of about 1250 on chess.com, while I have a 850 tactics rating