In which order do I need to learn chess to improve my rating

Tactics
Strategy/Positional play
End games
Openings

Right now my rating is around 1100 in chess.com

Try using chess.com lessons. U can try a free week and see if u fancy it. Why do I recommend it? Because with lessons, puzzles and playing a lot I went from 1200 to 2000 in 8 months. But if u want something different then...

For openings u can try London system. It is very simple, it doesn't have a lot of lines and gives a pleasant middle game position and if opponent isn't familiar with it u can get a nice attack. But for black there is no easy way, but Stafford gambit is an easy and quick way to win with lower rated players, and if your opponents knows how to defend u get at least 2 bishop endgame.

For tactics u just have to do a lot of puzzles, u can use lichess because it is free. 

For strategy I would recommend finding a player with your style and analyse his/her games, watch YT videos with that person or follow some streamers. 

Hope I helped, 

Good luck!

thanks a lot

1. Tactics - you need this the most in games as many pieces are won in the middlegame at your level.

2. Endgames - you need this to checkmate your opponents who refuse to resign in king and queen/rook versus king endgames.

3. Strategy and positional - occupy centre, critical squares etc AND watching over your hanging pieces

4. Openings - are usually the last you should look at, but you can study the most basic ones at your level and you should stick to a comfortable opening

I disagree with You when it comes to the openings, I believe that u should start with them. I think that in order to get a nice and pleasant position that is easy to play or sometimes even winning u need to have a good opening preparation with idea how to exploit opening errors. Moreover there are tactics associated with particular openings and plans for middle game that u can. study. Also mind that I just hope we can have a discussion and it is not a personal attack on You.

While it is true that some openings do help a lot and there are tactical opportunities from good openings, I notice that a lot of the 1100-1200 players who have some foundation in the openings suddenly do not know what to do in the middlegame. These players tend to have the "just before I gain a positional advantage, I will win the game" mentality.

Remember that in many games of lower rated players, there will be a blunderfest of pieces in the middlegame even if the opening stages are solid.

While opening preparation is important, I feel that the tactics and endgames are the most important to look at.

True u convinced me, there is no point to focus on getting a winning position with positional advantage if You do not know how to convert. But learning opening principles like "control the central squares " or "activate your pieces" might be useful.

Actually I classified this under positional/strategical...

I think that comment is very interesting especially the one with watch players that have your style, I have one question though, as a *SPICY* player, should I watch Morozevitch, because I've heard that he is very creative and when he wins he looks brilliant but when he loses... he gets crushed. Should I watch Nimzovitch rather, I'm also not sure about him because he's from an old era and maybe they were not as advanced as today in chess at that time.

Sorry, @Naguesh_Gun, because I asked a question about how I can improve while the topic is how you can improve hopefully you wouldn't mind and you'll understand that I also want to improve as 1300, and I hope you get to learn from the answer of this comment. Otherwise I;m ready to delete it if you want

It's a discussion, so everything is welcome. He will also learn from what you will learn.

For me, I have stopped learning (I play only for fun), And yes, I still hang pieces even at my level and still get walloped in the openings as usual, but it does not matter. I am playing for the fun of it,

That's interesting, I wouldn't expect this from a 2000, should I?

Should You enjoy chess? Hell yeah!!! It is all about the fun that u have during playing and meeting new people. But studying can be fun as well. Just garb a cup of coffee and discus a game or positional ideas behind a game with your friends.

Well, I am a human after all...

I occasionally study some positional ideas with one of my regular local club sparring player (who also plays with me on this site and another site). But in recent days due to continual working (before the virus situation came), I could hardly play. In fact, I played again on this site because of the virus situation. I would not have played again otherwise...

There are lots of ideas going on in a specific game. Seizing and controlling of diagonals. Open files. Knight outposts. Checkmating threats that are effective.

For me, I am personally poor in openings and poor in strategical ideas. But somehow in my games, I like to defy the principles of chess just to get my opponents off guard. And with some luck, I somehow manage to hit 2000. If you can get past even 1500, you are probably among the top 80% of the players on this site already,

Very good info! 

Improve your calculation.

thanks a lot

An interesting line of thought is that we "learn" chess in a way that may not optimize our potential.  We learn the "rules" and "how the pieces move" and maybe the "point values of pieces/pawns."  But we don't learn the deeper "rules" or how and WHEN to break them (think "doubled pawns" or "knight on the rim" and how these are considered unfavorable ... but watch Fischer and Capablanca games and you'll see many instances of accepting doubled pawns or placing knights on the edge).  We learn how the pieces move, but not how they CAN and conversely CAN'T move in certain positions, and we certainly don't learn the relative value of the pieces.  The point is, one path to improvement is to UNLEARN faulty understandings of the game.  Another is to UNLEARN tendencies that lead to blunders or unproductive lines of play.  

On the tactics front, try a book titled Secrets of the Russian (chess) Masters.  It contains techniques outlined in other works, but the examples what make it an excellent read.  

And then yet another excellent idea is to watch the "What I Learned from a Pro" videos where a NM explains what she sees and compares it to a GM and what he sees.  Fascinating.

I have returned to chess from a long exodus and hope to build my rating back -- my highest was 1627 back in the early 90's.  So I too am on a "learn how to learn" expedition.

this comment has so much positive energy ... and it's true.

Hey - I've actually written an article on learning chess from scratch to a rating of ~1100 on Rapid -https://medium.com/better-humans/chess-ultralearning-best-way-to-learn-chess-in-under-100-hours-bf58abce6569.

Really hope you find this useful!

In which order do I need to learn chess to improve my rating?

To clarify, the rating is the consequence of results and not necessarily of understanding. There are thousands of players who get results in blitz and bullet because they've worked in opening theory and tactics, but can't replicate the results in OTB.

Why not? Because relying on opening and tactics preparation works when the rival isn't prepared or up to the task. This may happen even between strong players when just a few seconds to solve the problems. However, if time is not an issue, most can see through and find accurate solutions to evident and concrete problems.

There are two main roads to overcome the issue of the rival seeing through anything you throw at him: Really complicated problems (usually referred to as tactical play), and long term problems (usually referred to as positional play). Whatever the case, both are based on the balance of activity for both sides, which in turn depends on coordination (working as a unit when attacking or defending) and harmonious disposition of pieces and pawns (working as a unit that both attacks and defends).

In the end, it's all about making your pieces better than the rivals. And this is critical in endings. Then, if you want to increase your ratings as soon as possible, then a mix of tactics and openings will do. But if you want to increase your understanding of the game, and the ratings following as a consequence, then you should study endings, with attention to how the masters try to place their pieces to break or hold the balance of activity.