Easy yet effective tips?

I have been saying watch Youtube Chessbrah Good Habits. Anybody bellow 500 Elo is going to have 2 whole series of this to watch as they progress and implement the good habits into their games. It is free, it feels like coaching as you watch along and guess the habitual moves, you play the moves in your own games, you get better results and improve your understanding as you gradually start seeing why these work and what exceptions to avoid. Also, they are great fun to watch. Can't think of any simpler way to learn a solid chess foundation for free.

It goes from sub 500 all the way to 2000.

Experience is the best teacher. You can look at all the videos, lessons, books, etc. about how to play the game well, but until you actually start playing you're going to get nowhere.

Now, for a few things:

1. Understand you're not always going to win. 

Pretty self-explanatory.

2. Don't play when you're angry or otherwise very emotional. 

The easiest solution to avoid tilting is to not tilt at all. Get off of the game and come back when you're normal again.

3. Remember that your opponent is trying to win as well.

Watch their moves and figure out the plans behind them. Also, check to see if the move they just played is a mistake in some way.

3.1 Related to the above: not all mistakes are simply hanging pieces or checkmates.

Sometimes they can be positional. For example, your opponent may move a pawn away from defending a square that would be a really nice location for a knight, or they might make an "equal" trade of pieces that's not really equal at all (that is, trading a very active and useful piece for a piece of the same value that's not doing much, and is therefore technically worth less).

4. Checks, captures, attacks.

These are the moves you should look for at all times. Can you attack the king (or something else), or can you remove something from the board? And is it a good idea?

5. The better your position is, the more careful you should be. Never get complacent when you're winning. Remember, all it takes is one bad move to make the game do a complete 180.

There's definitely more, but these are the primary ideas you will have to learn if you really want to get better.

Yes, Boris have many tips. Just none for you.

Learn exactly how to think in the opening, middlegame and endgame — this is what I teach.
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

Do puzzles, and don't get demoralized if you can't see it. Keep looking, be persistent and enjoy the hunt.

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again

I recommend opening principles like the blog post I linked above and learning theoretical endgames and common checkmating patters well, so you have an idea of positions you want to steer the middlegame stage towards:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTXwNMbhsy4vGA5qB0WfF5kL6OkaOd2IN

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

Dear Armando73,

My name is Gabor Balazs. I’m a Hungarian FIDE Master and a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one given way to learn and improve.

First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analyzing your own games. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is so good or bad.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main areas (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and if you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students enjoy the lessons because they cover multiple aspects of chess in an engaging and dynamic way, keeping the learning process both stimulating and efficient. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). There are around 39 hours of educational videos uploaded already (some of them are available with a FREE subscription) and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games!