You can improve by:
1) Pick a couple of openings that interest you. Find out which Master players play (or used to play) those openings. Collect several of their games. Play over the complete games, from move one to the end. This will teach you far more than memorizing a few opening lines.
2) Play over all your lost games. Try to figure out WHY you lost each one. Analyze them yourself, with your own mind and eye. Don't use the computer... the engine already KNOWS how to play chess. We are trying to teach YOU, not the computer.
3) Read my posts on the first couple of pages of this thread, PARTICULARLY posts # 4, 7 to 10 and most of all post 12. Then play over my three sample games on those first few pages.
GM Larry Evans' method of static analysis - Chess Forums - Chess.com
I noticed that lately I haven't been playing chess too often since a month ago, because of that I'm stuck on 1200 elo and haven't been improving lately. I want to get better at the game but I cannot stick to any routines to do so. Can anyone tell me about what I should do?
I am trying to reach around 1600 by January next year but I am lost on what to do.
(It's not like I do not enjoy the game anymore or is bored of it. It's that I just can't seem to
take the steps forward to improve as a player.)