How can I bridge the gap between my puzzle rating and my classical chess rating?

I actually do get influenced by usernames.

When there's offensive usernames I find it hard to ignore it completely during the whole game :(

And, quite funny, I have played against users like 1Nf3 or h-pawn-wins or latviangambit, and then no 1.Nf3, nor the h pawn was pushed, nor the Latvian Gambit was ever played, which confused me a little bit, yes, really :)

LOL .
what does your username mean btw, @achja?

Anyway, to your questions:
I play chess from around the end of May
I'm sorry, I do not have chess books. Suggestions?
I do analyze most of my games (here on stockfish) ... especially the kind you mentioned.

I do feel a lot more comfortable with more time control, and believe that I make better moves too.(That helps in puzzles I guess)
I'm terrible at bullet.

Thanks for all the replies :)

@kleynah #12

"ach ja" has by coincidence the same meaning in dutch and in german language, but it has more than 1 meaning.

Maybe "Oh yes" is the english version.

In real life, one can sigh "Ach ja" after some setback, shrug shoulders, and make some funny remark to try to make the setback feel less worse.

If your foreign guests are gone, and finished your complete wine cellar collection of ancient and exotic wine, and left a mess in your house, you can e.g. say "Oh yes ... luckily there's always the sun and new grapes are still growing in France and Italy and Portugal".

"Ach ja" can also be said in dutch at a moment of "aha erlebniss", the "Eureka effect". A sudden mental thunder strike of insight.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Aha-Erlebnis

... "Everything is relative" :-)

p.s.
"Terrible at bullet" is not a problem at all.
I don't understand why lots of people here find bullet rating apparently important.
1 0 and 0 1 bullet is partially about premove skills, dirty tricks, a good "game" computer mouse, good internet connection, and really not so much about chess skills.

By the way, if you (plural, everyone) want to improve your bullet rating, then play 2 0 instead.

... just saying :-)

Playing puzzle its kinda tricky; because when you play puzzle you know than there is one good move and you spend your time looking for it. When you are playing normal games, you don't know when this magic move can be; maybe it exists maybe not; so you don't spend the same time you would be spending in puzzle.

I did one full month of trainement which actually helped me a lot, to make this bridge between puzles and normal games; I recommend you to play puzles like if you would be playing normal chess. I mean: "Don't look for the solution, look for the best 1st, 2on move you can do" Probably you'll lose some puzles you could solve by other way, but eventually you'll improve in puzles and normal games.

So, change the vision you have in puzzles and start with that: "find the best move, and not the best solution". Then, if you made a good move, you can decide the second one according to your opponent moves. If you fail, you can play against computer from position to see if actually your move was good or if it wasnt check the why.

Something than helped me a lot it's to know how many time I need to solve one puzle: My average is to find the solution of the puzle in 1-2 min, and my initial good move in 10-30 seconds (if I spend 5 min or more, I solve it for fun, but I feel like if I actually failed, because in normal games I'm never spending that time);
so when I'm playing normal games, I know what is my "thinking average time" so if I can, I minimus spend 10-30 seconds to make my move and in hard positions or when I feel something its going on, I spend 1-2 min.

@ JustTraining: I agree with what you said, especially with the time thing. What I was actually doing is the alternative thing, playing classical with longer time, pretending if the position were a puzzle.

A good and simple way to bridge your ratings is to blunder puzzles on purpose.

"A good and simple way to bridge your ratings is to blunder puzzles on purpose." #16

Excellent logical answer!! Really the greatest so far!

Hi friends, readings all these comments are the greatest jokes of all. I once read that Peter Seller the actor comedian is a genius because he can see the funny sides of ordinary people. LOL

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Something is obviously wrong with your positional understanding of the game..

I think the way puzzles help in your game is that over time you start to see patterns. It's the patterns that make you better, not treating each move a "puzzle".