How do I Improve? What's the Next Step?

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GoranRC

What's up Chess.com Community! So, I have been playing chess for quite a while, and am pretty good at it. - I recently got into Chess.com . 

 

So, I am good at intuition, thinking what way to go with my moves, however, my game is U-n-o-r-g-a-n-i-z-e-d.

I don't have a system made, I don't know the certain "correct" responses after a certain move. That is becaues I have never actually "Studied" chess, and put time into creating/implementing a system into my game.

 

I'm trying to advance my game from knowing how to play, and being good at it, to having set up systems, and knowing what I'm doing at any moment during my game. 

 

What's the next step? Learning End-Game? Developing a Starting System? How do I do that? 

Read a book about chess? Which one? - What Do I Do?

 

Thank you guys for all the help! 

 

 

jambyvedar

Get the book, Idiot's Guide To Chess. Don't let the tittle trick you as it is a nice book appropriate for you.

kindaspongey

Possibly helpful:

Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf

Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/

Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf

Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf

Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)

http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html

Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/

A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf