THE best training ratio?

@tpr said ^

"not all games will be tactics"

• incorrect, most games contain several tactical opportunities.
  Most may go unnoticed prior to analysis. The winner of a game is often the player who spots a tactic.

"The winner of a game is often the player who spots a tactic."

In the past, maybe. But not that frequently.
In high level play, even that of 2000's are decided by strategy, commonly such as: bad openings, space, bad exchanges,piece play etc (atleast for me)

"Most may go unnoticed prior to analysis"

I don't believe so. All tactical ideas are just the same basic ideas- pin,fork,skewer,deflection etc. but some require combining of multiple moves. And the harder ones are those including a quiet move.

On lichess, the puzzles can be simple, from the <2000's. But on a website called tactics.chessbase.com you get tactics from GM games. It is basically the same as finding those games, but here you can do 50 a day, in half an hour. It doesn't require searching.

I'm not saying that game analysis is useless, I believe its the most important aspect of chess, but I don't think it can be used for tactics. GM game analysis depends on what topic you want, if you want attacking chess, view Alekhine. If you want complicated positions, maybe Anand,Shirov or Kasparov. If you want universal play, Spassky (I think?) grinding endgames? Magnus, Capablanca etc.

It also helps you find your own weaknesses, like mine are usually failing to convert advantages, because of either giving counterplay, or exchanging the wrong pieces, or sometimes playing a move too fast.

But for tactics, there are better ways than game analysis.

"for tactics, there are better ways than game analysis"

• I do not think so. See what tactics you and your opponent missed in your games.
  See what tactics grandmasters missed, one of them or even both.
  Here is the game that made Gukesh world champion, because Ding Liren missed a tactic.
  https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2811859
  Here is a game Carlsen lost for missing a tactic, that Gukesh spotted.
  https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2905674

Also, to what I remember, your format was 50% self-game analysis. 30% gm game analysis and 20% endgame studies?
That will get you completely smashed in modern chess, like this is a game where I beat a 2000 with opening preparation (not before the round, I had studies it before)

I knew 21 moves of theory, and got a +2 against a strong player.
Yes, I made some slips like 26.Rcg3, 28.Be3 etc, but I never let go of my advantage, and the positions were very hard to handle with black. So by studying Winawer Poisoned Pawn theory, I got my highest rated OTB win.

@tpr said ^

"for tactics, there are better ways than game analysis"

• I do not think so. See what tactics you and your opponent missed in your games.
  See what tactics grandmasters missed, one of them or even both.
  Here is the game that made Gukesh world champion, because Ding Liren missed a tactic.
  https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2811859
  Here is a game Carlsen lost for missing a tactic, that Gu...

Or, use tactics.chessbase.com, which gives you all of these tactics from top level games and an ELO system?

Black should capture 10...dxc3

@tpr said ^

Black should capture 10...dxc3

https://lichess.org/byB1bd7e#19

Not necessarily.
Both computers & games show that Nbc6 is preferred.
Also, this is the line that Ponomariov recommends in my files.