How does someone improve in chess?

How do you improve in chess? Should i study more tactics,openings, etc...? idk im always studying openings and finding which ones i should use and im starting to practice tactics more but i think one of my main problems is middlegame/endgame i think. Im not so sure but i will post my last two games i have lost in for you people to take a look also if anyone is willing to play a game with me and tell me what i need to improve i dont mind, just send me an invite :D 

The main problem young players have these days, are they don't focus on 1 opening enough. They try and learn every variation of every opening possible, but it isn't possible. 

 1. Study 1 opening, learn some basic lines of it. When you have a decent understanding of it, start looking for games played by masters of your opening. This'll help you a lot. 

 2. Don't play too much blitz, trust me, it'll negatively effect you. Play more standard than anything. 

 3. Study positional chess and tactics, make sure you don't do one more than the other. Keep the balanced, this will make you an all around strong player.

 4. Don't get caught up in theory lines of popular openings, just learn the fundamentals of openings. 

 Good luck. 

Thanks for the great advice! i will start working on this now. but should i study 1 opening for white and black? or just study one opening for white then an opening for black?

I will work on this too! thanks!

I think i will study the Kings Gambit for white, and the Nimzo Indian defense for Black. Thanks for the great advice guys!

This might be helpful:  http://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-for-beginners-the-opening2

Take a look at the openings listed under 3. 

Study the endgame.  

"A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position.  In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance." -Paul Keres

"In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else.  For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the endgame."-Jose Capablanca

Daniel Rensch gave the best advice I've heard in one of his videos. It was simply "Don't blunder". If you just don't blunder, your chess will improve vastly- my game is still pretty bad but has come a long way since I started thinking through each move more carefully.

Another good pointer is to look ahead at least two moves, and try and locate pieces that are hanging- both yours and your opponent's.

Just some things that have helped me. Good luck!

The key to improve your game is too study endgames, tactics and strategy. You can study these things from good chess books. When you are studying, you need to  keep repeating/re study what you have read.

Problem is you can't always get the opening you want, how are you going to play a King's Gambit if the game starts 1.e4 d6 or 1.e4 e6? Unfortunately there aren't any short cuts you have to be prepared for a few different replies to 1.e4

The Nimzo is a very good choice to study as black but you also need a line in the Queens Indian or Bogo-Indian for when White goes 3.Nf3 instead of 3.Nc3. Also what will you play if the game goes 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5? Its hard to reduce everything down in the openings, you just have to be prepared for the most likely moves.

http://www.chess.com/blog/hicetnunc/chess-maturity

Don't give away your pieces/pawns for free. Concentrate on that first. Studying tactics helps you see potential problems earlier, in time to fix them. Make sure each move you're not giving the game away, then go on to strategy and such.

Yes, Botvinnik recommended to submit your analysis to 'public scrutiny'

Okay, in the first game I noticed you allowed your opponent to occupy the hole on d3. After that you were done.  The sixth is a very powerful place for a knight as it controls many squares in your camp and cramps you.  People even give up rooks to get rid of them. 

Things I like:

1. Your transposition into the Van Geet from the Scandinavian.  So you at least can steer the game into openings you like that the opponent may have less experience in.

You need to work on:

1. Not handing your opponent outpost.

2. Don’t weaken the kingside unnecessarily with f3. Ng3 was correct.

3. When you played c3 it was too slow, develop the bishop or a knight.  Maybe play d4 there.

4. 6.b4 just wastes time and black hasn't committed a pawn to c6 yet, if ever.  So the minority attack is a dream.  I remember a game I played against granddad recently that went 1.e4,c5 2.c4,Nc6 3.Nf3,d6 and he played 4.h4?! And I think it was because he knows I usually play g6 in such positions, but I haven't committed to ...g6 yet, so I played ...e6.  He then played Ng5-h6-Nh3 unnecessarily weakened the light squares with g3, I played a break with d5 eventually, he ignored, and I got a royal fork in on him and was two bishops and many pawns up in an endgame. 

My point is that planning against something they didn't play yet is premature.

When he played 7.Nxc1+?? it made me sick, he traded his spectacular knight for your terrible bishop with no hopes of freeing itself.

You neglected to at least equalize with 6.d4! denying black his dream of a strong knight on the sixth, also defeating the purpose of your c3 thrust in the first place!

7.Bxd3 was called for, even though getting rid of your lightsquared bishop with weak queenside light squares and a queen on the sixth isn't pleasant.

11.Ne2 oh boy, blocking in your bishop by placing your knight on its not so optimal square.  Yeah, you need a lot of improvement.  Then again all of us non-Morphys/Capablancas were in your position once. 

I'll agree with the Nimzo-Indian suggestion (and if 3.Nf3 then Queen's Indian) but the King's Gambit is too advanced for you.  You really have to know what you're doing to not get crushed and some book moves neglect queenside development for quite some time.  Try the 2.Nf3-Bc4 systems against the open games, and 2.d4 against any third rank pawn move by black.  If 1...Nf6 then 2.e5,Nd5 3.d4,d6 4.Nf3 simply developing, don't go for the four pawns attack.

Once every week richie_and_oprah is completely and wholly correct. This is that moment.

Thanks for all your advice guys but what should i open with when playing white if the kings gambit is too advance for me?

King's Gambit is a good opening for forcing you to learn tactics.

Former World Champion Max Euwe states that an individual chess player's growth follows the same pattern as chess history itself (Development of Chess Style). That view would seem to advocate the Italian Opening and the King's Gambit as the openings you should start with as White.

I don't think the Kings Gambit is too 'advanced', its just that there are a lot of forced lines you need to remember to avoid disaster in the first 20 moves! You could go for something more positional like the Ruy Lopez after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, people will say that is too strategically advanced but most of the time you will be trying to get a kingside attack up anyway..and you don't have to give up a pawn

In my opinion you shouldnt focus your efforts in the opening. After a dozen moves your playing in the dark. Studying openings is for the more advanced of players. You should check out some videos on space, time, force, and pawn structure. The elements that direct a game! Hope this helps