I don't think so as my USCF rating is 2158 yet I'm 2527 with the tactic trainer.
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Right- it also depends on how good at tactics you are. I don't think the TT ratings are as much of a Gaussian-looking curve as the spread in a standard rating system- the graph looks a bit fatter and rougher on the sides. But to make a crude comparison with it to chess.com's rating system for echess:
center of e-chess's player spread graph is about 1300
center of the TT graph is about 1100
So for the average player here their TT rating will be about 200 points lower. This rule wouldn't be expected to hold very strongly though
I bet the TT will overrate the best players and underrate the worst ones too.
It is good for tracking your own personal ups and downs over time.
Thanks. That makes me feel better about my terrible TT rating.
I would like to see a 1000 point improvement within two years. Even with hard work, that's a pipe dream, isn't it?
Tactic trainer is funny. If you see a tactic that you cannot solve, just close the window and open it again. Then it will show you another tactic. Repeat it again and again until you can solve the problem. So your rating will never decrease.
It is a trick way and I'm not encourage you to do that. I just use that way when I want to solve more tactics (I just have 3 tactics/day).
Hahaha! I suppose you could do that, but it would take much longer and you'd learn less. Usually I learn the most if I get one wrong, think about what I did incorrectly without looking at the solution, try it again unrated, and then view the solution if I still can't get it from there.
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A better explanation for the earlier part of the thread on why the TT graph is a different shape and scale- if you look at the e-chess graph, it represents a pool of players where everyone is playing other people from that pool and where 'rating points are not created or destroyed.' Because of this conservation it'll look like it does. With the TT graph it's players playing against problems, outside the pool, with static ratings (well, the ratings are adjusted if necessary). So you can match them up by the peaks and take the difference but it's only meaningful in a very rough sense. One's like two people playing catch, one's like bouncing a ball against a wall.
Seems obvious once it's stated, but I thought I'd put it in case what I said earlier was unclear.
Does the Tactics Trainer rating correspond to a FIDE Elo rating? If so, what's the relation?
Thanks in advance, mynameinc.
P.S. What's a reasonable gain for a novice in two years, with a lot of effort put into it?