What constitutes a tactician?

Hello!

I wanted to start a discussion on what we might mean when we call ourselves or other chess players tacticians. I know this has been discussed before, but, given that new people have undoubtably joined chess.com since the older discussions were made, I wanted to get the views of everyone I could on this topic. When you say you played a tactical game, how many types of games might you include in this statement? What is a "tactical" masterpiece? I will omit my own views at this time for lack of a better reason than my views are not well-formed. Perhaps that could change 

Thanks,

chessman

A tactician is just a nice way of saying a person has no positional understanding. 

A typical example.

Larry Christiansen and Garry Kasparov have no positional understanding? That's good to know.

Well, not necessarily. For an extreme example, Garry Kasparov was often referred to as a great tactician, but he had enough positional understanding to topple Karpov. Of course, when I refer to tacticians, I don't mean to talk about players who devote themselves to one area of the game while neglecting others. My real question can be phrased as "When one refers to a tactician in chess, what skill set does said tactician have?

I think he was just using hyperbole to take a stab at some arrogant chess.com players who post games filled with egregious errors and pretend like they won by their great playing.

Mosai, you have chosen the very worst example! Just saying, we are talking about tacticians.

In the past a pure Tactician disdained positional considerations they employed hit and run tacticis usually had a very keen eye for the  combinative side of Chess like Frank Marshall and Joseph Henry Blackburne they could bloody their opponents and played aggressive Chess but had big problems when they came up against defensive players 

Nevertheless, if I didn't know that it was Carlsen I would have guessed black was <1300

Plus Carlsen only had 30 seconds while Gates had two minutes. Carlsen couldn't take his time to play positionally and so he had to play quicker. He knew what would work on a beginner.

Tacticians dislike positional play as "too slow" or "not active enough" they strive for the adrenaline rush of a well executed tactical attack, even if they are unsure of the outcome their tactical abilities are at a level much higher than their rating, so a person who studies just tactics at say 1500 OTB would be able to kill anyone up to a 2100 in a Traxler as black.

a 12 sec blitz game does not constitute a good example.

Tactics.