How do you improve your chess ?

well the case is, if u dont get better through what u do, u got to do something else. if u r getting better, whatever the others suggest u, it shall not matter. well honestly people suck, when the complicated gets into a routine for u, u r able to understand more complicated variation and hence the better player u r.

the better player u become*

Im working really hard learning programming and web dev and thats exactly what Im need and fighting to achieve : making the complicated become a routine.. but man does it hurt at first and still is too much still

i just saw you broke 2000 ! its my dream Ill try that in the next tourney by the end Ill reach it !!!!! roar! iknow its just a number but....

May be chessprophecy is burnout and that is why he got better after a rest.

I was once burnout, fighting just to eat, more than that and was already out of breath... forget chess or anything else, hope no one gets burnout its too close to stop on living :(

but we are drifting away from subject hehehe. I will try chess with pomodoro technique the 28th for the 24h tourney.. 25 minutes and 5 minutes break... 25 +5

1)Chess Books :-

As a sub-1500 player, I read 'Beginning Chess' by Bruce Pandolfini. Great book if you know nothing about chess. Later on, I picked up 'My System' (a classic.), 'Chess Fundamentals' by Capablanca, and 'How to reassess your chess' by Silman. For endgames, I read 'Silman's Complete Endgame course'. Right now, I'm reading 'From amateur to IM' by Jonathan Hawkins. Amazing book so far. Insightful and great annotation of instructive games as well.

2)Chess Improvement :-

I am a kinesthetic learner. If I see an interesting position, or a position where I'm curious about a particular variation or alternative, I'm gonna run straight to my board, set it up, and play it out. In this way, I'm able to apply concepts and etc. A hands-on experience is usually best for me.
Other than that, I like going to my local chess club, playing a game or two, and analyzing those games, regardless of whether it was a win/loss/draw.
I like going through databases, if I want to know more about a particular opening.
I like going over the occasional grandmaster game, if I find it intriguing enough.

3) Study Plans?

I don't follow any vigorous or strict study plan anymore. I just don't have time for it anymore.

4) Chess Coaches :-

I had a chess coach briefly for around half a year, when I was 14 or 15. It wasn't particularly a good experience. :/ I don't know if it was just the coach or whether I was a bad student or whatever.

5) Tourneys.

Not much anymore. I like strolling down to my chess club on the weekends sometimes, but I don't play serious OTB anymore.

6) Chess Training Softwares.

Nahhhhhhh. Nothing other than my engine. xD

interesting, thnx for sharing man! o, man, that thing you say about the coach, that hurts everytime I hear the " bad student" I promise you the "bad student " is just a myth that help the bad teachers get by and the struggling student in denial of the sad truth : your teacher has failed you and the blame is on you. All together, in education, they actually end up convincing us. A teacher is there to teach and teach how to learn, the student cant be bad at what he is learning, just a simple paradox if you ge4t my drift. Its a tough one, since it usually means the parents fail their child also, ouch. A real good teacher stands out by adapting to the student in all ways necessary to get results. The "bad student" just gets rammed in by one method or two, one perspective or two, till a teacher or parent just gives up trying different things to help and end up saying : " hey man, your just not cut out for this, bad student, idiot, whatever.... " reegarding chess, i cant believe how little of those great sounding ways to learn that u share with us that i know how to do. Ive got my puzzles here at lichess the rest are crazy blitz games. I tried getting some databases but I wasted so much time just figuring out what to use and how to use them I never got to the chess part before I fell into serious case of vegetative state. I will have to learn more tools to get better I guess but I am also struggling with the simple fact that i am addicted, ya, seriously addicted to binge blitz instinctive craze fun chess.

@leolo, I really wasn't enthusiastic about the idea of a 'coach' anyway. But I figured I needed something to do on those boring summer evenings, as a teenager. Maybe the lack of dedication and the 'just-for-timepass' approach was a factor that led to the failure. It's alright though, sometimes things just aren't for you.