NM Dan Heisman has written a lot about this. I suggest you read some of his articles: http://danheisman.home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Articles/subject.htm
Here are a few on the subject of improvement to get started:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman54.pdf
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman19.pdf
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman68.pdf
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman98.pdf
rating below 1500: only tactics and opening basics
rating below 2000: strategical books and master games, advanced tactics, endgame basics, advanced opening lines
rating above 2000: complete opening repertoire, good endgame knowledge, strategical books (!!!), high level tactics and mating nets
what about rating below 500?
Practice finding hanging pieces and preventing hanging your pieces.
hanging pieces being unprotected pieces? or pieces that commtited suicide, by hanging?
hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha ...... not funny
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Like Nakamura, play a lot of games against the computer!
nichts
das war! ich bin nicht langweilig. ich bie einer kuschelig Person
thats right. im learning German!
whops. 'bie' was meant to be 'bin'. typo!
start from tactic training and then to chess mentor
Danke schon (two dots on top of 'o')(i think...)
I dont know how to study chess