You need to get a positional understanding, and you will improve much.
Read this book and you will become MUCH better: http://blog.chess.com/view/review-the-middlegame-book-one---static-features-by-m-euwe-and-h-kramar
I believe you need to become better in the endgame to, this can be done with the book Fundamental Chess Endings.
Look around for cheap (yeah, right) used copies of these books, obviously you don't need all of 'em at once but a few will certainly help for starters:
Common Sense in Chess by Dr Lasker
Chess Fundamentals and My Chess Career by Capablanca
My System (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) by Nimzovitch
1001 Checkmates and 1001 Combinations by Fred Reinfeld
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played and Logical Chess Move by Move by Irving Chernev
Practical Chess Endings by Chernev (or the same title by GM Keres)
Hi, i learned to play chess a long time ago but i recently fell inlove with the game. id love to become a competitive player but i'm having serious problems improving my gaming, i know there is no mastery of something without hard work and practice along with dedication.
i would like to get some advices from you guys.
in the actuality my gamestyle is at a very low level. I play aggresive as white, trying to to get the checkmate asap, i play based in how i think the other player is going to respond to my moves. as black i play to defend trying to just wait til the other one makes a mistake i can use to take adventage of the game.
I'd been looking around and found some interesting openings, i found them really usefull but then i have no idea how to respond in a lot of the cases when a player does something, i haven't see openings for black yet so i stick to my "defense" mode lol.
How can i improve? am i going the right path by "guessing" what the other is thinking and wait till that develops through several games or do i memorize strategies to apply them in midgames?
I'm not really sure what to do. The other question is that when you play what is the best thing to do? try to get as many pieces you can from the other player or gain positioning? i've been watching some games of high levels games and i've seen some moves i seriously do not understand, id think "he is gonna eat there" and even if it looks safe to do so, he doesn't do it. i don't understand that.
Can you please give me some advices and what am i doing wrong, or good and how to improve faster?
Thank you in advance for the advices :)