Difference between puzzle rating and live chess

Ok, in this 600 is the difference. I began to make tactics here again and went from 1300 to 1800, but I am still improving. I guess I can reach 1900 or even 2000 in a couple of days.

1800 blitz 2300 puzzle rating

500 points difference.  I guess that when the difference is something like 800+ this is an indication that a player should invest more in the opening, strategy or endgame to improve. 

How about those having a tactics rating above 10 000? (If you check the top lists)

Their difference in rating is definitely more than 7000.

I'm sure there is a minority whose puzzle rating is below their game rating.

Okay, I was thinking about people who train in the usual way. I know that players who do huge amounts of tactics for a long time will at a certain point know the puzzle in chess.com and get therefore incredible ratings. 

Can be that you get bad positions out of the opening? Or that are not very good in strategy?

I am expecting the vast majority of players here to have a puzzle rating of somewhere between 400 and 800 rating points above their game rating.

My tactics rating, on average, is about 450-550 rating points above my blitz rating and 600-700 rating points above my rapid rating (on this site).

This would happen if people did some puzzles at the beginning and stopped,  but when on improving by playing and analysing. Or they do puzzles somewhere else.  This was my case. I do tactics in Chessable. 

Try sitting for 15min+ with each puzzle, analyse it thoroughly, take notes if you have to and then play the solution. Your puzzle rating will skyrocket, but in blitz, that's impossible.

Some people have puzzle ratings several hundred points higher. It mostly boils down to the fact that a puzzle is a static position, in which the solver knows there is a BEST MOVE.

Games are pretty organic, since after every move, the board position changes.  (Obviously there are scenarios of dead draws in which is matters little if the board position changes, or draws by 3 fold repetition.)

So it boils down to the fact that humans, in  a timed game, don't have the luxury of looking for the best most every turn.  Even Stockfish reportedly had to spend 5 to 8 hours looking at a single position to find the move that Google's Alpha Zero Chess played against it, and most likely, it was a newer version of Stockfish that looked at the position.

Yes, in a real game you don’t have anybody telling you “white to play and win in three moves”.

1600 blitz and 2500 puzzle rating

1300 rapid 1600 puzzles

wish i had1600 rapid

2034 puzzles, 834 blitz. Reviving a dead thread, just trying to figure out why I suck at playing games. Might stick to the puzzles. 

• Huge difference between both. I would like to have a look at your games later to see what you are doing.  You should be already 1200 or stronger. 

I'm in the same boat as mr_trouble. 850 blitz, 2000 puzzles. Though my rapid is 1200. My rapid should preferably be higher, but my blitz is just sad.