Now I want to ask, How do you go from Intermediate to Advanced level?

This 1 I know people want to know, so why not give suggestions, Anyone?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/any-tips-58

hello?

I guess:

• Study many different openings, especially the popular ones. Have some opening tricks and traps you can use. Know when your opponent is trying to play a common trick against you.
• Play puzzles regulary to improve tactics skill.
• Endgame studies: know at least the most common endgame checkmates, king&pawn endgames, and so on. Chesscom has some endgame studies (premium only?)
• Play your favorite game mode regularly to put your openings and tactical skills to the test.
• Analyze your games to see what could have been player better.

But I'm just 1600 rapid, and I don't do even half of these

This is super interesting

I have next to no chess experience,  so take this with a grain of salt.

I think there are fundamental pillars that hold up any skill.   Going from "intermediate" to "advanced" might rely on identifying what is important to,  in this case,  chess and then navigating games with those important bits in mind.   It could be things like patterns,  timing,  space.  it's probably NOT things like methodology out of context,  Ie cheese or cheapos.

Put another way,  I think NOT being advanced (or more) in some game or skill simply means you're doing it wrong and the fix is to learn about it then start doing the right way.   probably on the other side of effort,  practice / training and time.  

To add to Smugwib's point, consistency is a large difference between rating levels. 1200s can be expected to play beautifully one game and blunder everything the next, but a 1600 will not (or at least, swing so drastically much less often). 

Moving away from gambits and understanding the game plan (e.g. I'm taking control of the center and then attacking, I'm developed and they aren't so I'm going to open diagonals for my bishops/files for my rooks, I have an isolated QCP so I'm going to play around that) have been much more beneficial to my rating than studying the 17 lines that may happen on move 4 of the Vienna Gambit.

I would heavily advise watching ChessBrah's series that involves rules to dictate your play.

In esports you can recognize a good player by intent.   This could be a MobA players clicks and camera control,  a RTS players flowchart / preconditions or a poker player's EV.  There is lots of room to flounder an execution or get unlucky in many games,  and the better player isn't always the one who turns up the best clip or example.   

It's the skillset that good things are to be derived from.   

There are also barriers to entry in some games,  like physical team sports.  You can't play soccer if you can't run from one side of the field to the other,  maybe that could be like board vision in chess,  lol.   

I hate to tell you, but you're still a beginner. I'm rated higher than you and I'm a beginner. They say Chess doesn't become Chess until you you are up to the 1700 level, Tournament or FIDE, probably. Then you can call yourself an Intermediate. I think the formal Chess world uses different terms. The average Tournament player is 1500 and the average FIDE player 1550. The only way to advance is to study.

   BTW, I'm "intermediate" with a rapid rating roller coaster that usually peaks in the mid-1800s and then falls to 1700 and sometimes below before climbing again. Endgames help a lot.

Owning books is not the same as reading them, of course. I have spent a lot of time with some in the photo, and very little with others. Most helpful has been Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual and a book not pictured, Jacob Aagaard, Excelling at Technical Chess.

I advise you don't always play daily games, you should play 3 or 5 minute games to see if you are really good. Also my rapid is 1000, that's intermediate level.

Lol