Improving at chess

Hello, I am solving nowadays 100 chess puzzles a day on chess tempo. I am rated arround 2200 on lichess at the moment. I read 2 books in my entire chess carreer. I am sure that I became much better because of these books. I read my first book when I was a beginner. Here is my book: amzn.to/3KqkFZt.
I read my other book when I was already a good chess player. This book is more about calculation and tactic. The book helped imroving me a lot. Here is the lick of my book. This one is the best chessbook that I have ever seen. amzn.to/3qFL7GC

It would be really nice if everybody post here how they got better at chess

I read two chess books: My System by Nimzo and My Best Games by Alekhine. In spite of these books, I became good by many speed games.

Endgame books :)

Chessable has nice opening courses as well, but I should invest the time instead of playing blitz :)

@TheKingClash said in #4:
> How I Studied/Played Chess During 2021
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> 1. Read 'John Nunn's Chess Course' by John Nunn
> 2. Read 'My System' by Aron Nimzowitsch
> 3. Joined lichess.org and played some online chess games there
> 4. Read the endgame and pawn structure section and looked at the master games on the last chapter of 'The Chess Player's Bible' by James Eade and Al Lawrence (the first half I read many years ago to learn how to play chess)
> 4. Read 'Batsford Chess Endings' by John Tisdall
> 5. Read 'The Making of a Champion' by Tibor Károlyi
> 6. Watched 'Saint Louis Chess Club' videos on YouTube

Number 3 you should edit something,maybe "3. Joined "Example" lichess.org and played some online chess games there" (JK Dont get Mad Thibault)

I am a relatively low rated player compared to most so when I say 'improve' I mean around 1600 (I am here now).
Until 1200- Learned a proper opening and played the first few moves.
1200-1400- Watching Saint Louis, Jim's Chess Channel, Gothamchess, Hanging Pawns, etc. Doing lichess practice and chess basic sections (anonymously).
1400-1600- Quitting ultra and hyper and playing bullet or variants on an extremely rare basis. Focusing on longer time controls. Read a few lichess forums (especially tpr posts, and many others who I don't want to ping), and spending more time on moves.
1600 onwards: I have not done this yet hoping to improve by:
Doing a few puzzles
Playing casual correspondence for training and practice
Analyzing the games
Note: I am talking entirely about my classical rating. It is and will be my favourite time control.
If you are below 1600 I hope this helped :)
If you are above then if you have any tips please share :)
Thx for reading

The most important thing of all is analyzing your own games--especially losses (and only in slower time controls).

@simonbullet234
Puzzles and books don't help if one doesn't play games.
And remember that 'bullet' is fun chess not literal chess.

"... Sure, fast games are fine for practicing openings (not the most important part of the game for most players) and possibly developing decent board vision and tactical 'shots', but the kind of thinking it takes to plan, evaluate, play long endgames, and find deep combinations is just not possible in quick chess. ... for serious improvement ... consistently play many slow games to practice good thinking habits. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2002)
web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
"... Review each of your games, identifying opening (and other) mistakes with the goal of not repeatedly making the same mistake. ... It is especially critical not to continually fall into opening traps – or even lines that result in difficult positions ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2007)
web.archive.org/web/20140627062646/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman81.pdf
"... Logical Chess [(Batsford edition by Chernev)] ... a collection of 33 games ... is definitely for beginners and players who are just starting to learn about development, weak squares, the centre, standard attacking ideas, and the like. In many ways, it would [be] a wonderful 'first' book (or first 'serious' book, after the ones which teach the rules and elementary mates, for example), and a nice gift for a young player just taking up chess. ..." - IM John Watson (1999)
theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/assorted-recent-books
www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1004861