How did you improved?

I found my solutions

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-did-you-improve-your-strategic-positioning

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-do-i-improve-i-am-utterly-stuck

Thanks for posting.

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Tactics problems and vote chess.

Re your home page quote...in life there are no classes (which makes the whole business a bit tougher). 

I didn't.

 liar, you went from 900 to 1300+ what do you called that ?

I looked around and seen that everyone recomends learning tactics. This is what changed your whole mind set and made your brain bigger at chess?

not just tactic alone, but is it part of the learning thing. 

Statistical abnormality.

Yes, tactics practice and playing a lot will certainly help you improve.

Not much difference at that level. 

you see it as half empty and I see it as half full.

I see it as completely woodshover.

1)did lots of chess tactics

2)read lots of chess books on various topics

3)studied all the wins of Emmanuel Lasker

4)do chess daily

5)played correspondence chess very seriously spending lots of analysis time on each move.

6)did chess mentor on chess.com

7)chess.com videos

8)try to formulate intelligent answers on chess.com forums (seems it can help cement knowledge to try to teach it to someone else). 

--that's how I've managed some improvement. Your results may vary. 

I've actually heard this before with the vote chess but just how exactly does vote chess help one improve.

 Everybody is supposed to discuss why the moves are made.

Yeah, I think it was pretty useful to read all the good players' explanations of the moves.

Here is an article on how I gained 434 USCF rating points in one year.

http://weaksquare.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-i-gained-434-points-in-one-year.html

Hey that's a nice write up -- and you and Godspawn both recommend playing up sections in tournaments, which strikes me as a really improvement first/ego second attitude.  The section I quote below strikes me as very insightful: 

I read and completed "The Amatuer's Mind".  I learned a vast amount of new chess knowledge in regards to middlegame and positional play.  Armed with my new knowledge my rating promptly went from 1483 to 1457 in the next two months.  The reason for the decline in my rating was my rethinking of chess.  I was relying on new methods instead of the methods that got me to 1500.  I still felt like I was playing better chess even if it was not showing in my actual rating.

It would have been very easy to say -- oh this positional stuff is crap and doesn't help -- but you could feel the difference. I think that's awesome. Obviously it pays off in the end. 

play stronger players