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Learning the rules this year is a good start and the hours of videos might expose yourself with different ideas, but chess takes lots of time and patience to learn. When first learning chess, the best ways to improve are probably by doing chess tactics and by learning basic endgames/checkmates. As for what to do during the games (especially the beginning), there are a few guidelines (opening principles) that are useful to employ. 

1) Develop your pieces: this is probably the biggest obstacle for beginners. It is tempting to bring your Queen out early, or "attack" with a Knight, but unless something can tangibly come out of this instantly, then it is usually better to just continue developing your other pieces. Pieces are stronger when coordinated together and the best players usually find ways to involve all of their pieces; you have an entire army at your disposal - not just one or two pieces. Get your pieces out and active; improve your worst pieces; you will find yourself in more playable positions more often.

2) Connected to development, castle early: castling does a few things. Most obviously, it gets your King behind a pawn shelter and out of harms way; the center is usually not a safe place for your King early in the game. Castling also develops your Rook out of the corner. Rooks (and the Queen) are usually developed last. Until more pieces (yours and your opponent's pieces) take their positions, it isn't always so clear where your heavy pieces (Queen and Rooks) will be best situated. This is one reason they tend to be developed last (another reason is that they are often harassed by the pawns and pieces of lesser value if they are prematurely developed).

3) A third guideline can be to try and control the center. The central squares e4, d4, e5, and d5 are important squares to influence. Not only for pawns to control (not the same as having a pawn occupy those squares), but also for your other pieces to influence from afar. The reason that the central squares are important is connected to piece activity. You want to get your pieces active and mobile (while preventing the same from the opponent). The center is simply a nice place to do that from. If you don't control the center, then usually the correct counter measure is either launch a flank attack or directly challenging the center (the second much more common). When first learning chess, it isn't important to yet grasp complex topics - but I think it doesn't hurt to be aware of their existence and you will learn them in due time. One of these is referred to as a "hypermodern approach" (I only mention because it talks about controlling the center) which is just a fancy way way describing openings that willingly allow the opponent to grab the center (risky idea for sure) just so you can attack/undermine that center in the hopes that it becomes more of a target and liability to them than an asset. It isn't recommended to take up these openings (Grunfeld Defense is an example of one hypermodern opening) when first learning, but I think it is important to know that exceptions to general principles do exist.

This seems like a good time to point out that with every single "rule" someone may tell you in chess, there are always rare exceptions it seems. This is why I prefer to call these principles "guidelines" rather than "rules." Whenever someone claims that a chess player should always play x, or never play y (and so on) these pieces of advice aren't usually best - even if they have noble intentions. Follow these many chess principles/guidelines you will hear and know that rare exceptions probably exist.

Keep trying to improve and have fun. Chess is just a game after all

p.s. If you would like, we can play some unrated chess games sometime and I could offer my advice tailored to the specific positions, but the generic chess principles will probably be most beneficial at first.

"... for those that want to be as good as they can be, they'll have to work hard.
Play opponents who are better than you … . Learn basic endgames. Create a simple opening repertoire (understanding the moves are far more important than memorizing them). Study tactics. And pick up tons of patterns. That’s the drumbeat of success. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (December 27, 2018)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/little-things-that-help-your-game
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-start-out-in-chess

https://www.chess.com/blog/michechess89/8-tips-to-increase-your-online-rating

https://www.chess.com/news/view/rapid-chess-improvement
https://www.chess.com/news/view/a-new-years-resolution-improve-your-chess-with-new-lessons

https://www.chess.com/article/view/mastery-chess-lessons-are-here
"... In order to maximize the benefits of [theory and practice], these two should be approached in a balanced manner. ... Play as many slow games (60 5 or preferably slower) as possible, ... The other side of improvement is theory. ... This can be reading books, taking lessons, watching videos, doing problems on software, etc. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627084053/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman19.pdf
"... If it’s instruction, you look for an author that addresses players at your level (buying something that’s too advanced won’t help you at all). This means that a classic book that is revered by many people might not be useful for you. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (2015)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever
Here are some reading possibilities that I often mention:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
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 (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-back-to-basics-tactics
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5856bd64ff7c50433c3803db/t/5895fc0ca5790af7895297e4/1486224396755/btbtactics2excerpt.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
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/

https://www.chess.com/blog/ForwardChess/book-of-the-week-openings-for-amateurs
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis (2009)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090448/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review750.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090229/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review492.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf

https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-openings

https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf

I didn't read what the others wrote. I'm sure you got a lot of good advice.

I was just going to say videos may or may not be useful to a real beginner. The biggest impact for a player in the beginning is learning the opening principals and basic tactics like forks and discovered attacks.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-principles-of-the-opening

(And you can google "chess fork" and "chess discovered attack")