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Plenty of lessons on here and on the internet. I found John Bartholomew's Chess Fundamentals Series on you tube helpful. Stop if you get tired and play long time controls to improve Fast is fun, butvslow down to improve, say G30, 45|45, even Daily. If you like fast chess then try alternating days and on your study day play one 45|45 analyse and annotate it, then do some puzzles and study. Just a suggestion but you get the idea. Also Chess improvement takes time and is better measured in months rather than weeks, particularly as you start to climb the rating ladder.

I had and I still have my own schedule on chess training. For me it is important so I  have something to follow. For example If play online first, after that I do not have energy to read chess books. So I solve and read first no matter what as warm-up. Then playing is last. Repeat for several days, weeks, months. And years. 

My channel, Chess Boot Camp, is dedicated to helping players to improve to 1000 and then beyond. Perhaps start with this video on how to improve your rating.

Here are some general tips for you:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement

As for playing too much, well of course, you should take a break probably for a few days and then come back, but play in moderation. You can't improve only by playing games. You need to do other things I've mentioned in that article, essentially you need to study the game and to play it for practice.

By the way, I would suggest playing longer games. I see that you are playing 10 minutes per side. It is tough to improve optimally that way as you don't have the time to think about the position long enough. 15|10 is probably the shortest time control you should play.

I agree with nklristic. However much time you have for chess, you will improve faster by spending half of that time on lessons, tactics & puzzles, and no more than 50% for playing.

Dear 3O1AD,

I am 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 general way to learn. 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 analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

So, the question you asked is not so easy to answer, but I can tell you one thing for sure. In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). 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 really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

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