What is the best way to improve in chess?

I am a uscf rated 2038 player/FIDE 2180 and I study tactics almost every day... I am getting better, but I wondered what other people did to improve their chess games.|||You really want to get better?





1) Play many slow games against stronger players who are tough as hell to beat at a Chess Club you'll lose lots of them but your losses will show you what areas of your game need improvement and work no matter how many times you lose keep coming back for more.





2) Play lots of Correspondence Chess I highly recommend Correspondence League of America they are a credible organization





http://www.chessbymail.com/





You play against real People not engines or Computers





3) Study the Games of Grandmasters if you get a book like 500 Master Games of Chess by Tartakower and constantly go over and over the games of greatest matches you will definitely improve





Study the Endgame and Middle Game





1) Silman's Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman





2) Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Shereshevsky





3) Dvorertsky's Endgame Manual by Mark Dvoretsky





4) Ruben Fines Basic Chess Endgames By Ruben Fine





5) The Middlegame - Book I : Static Features (Algebraic Edition) (Bk. 1) (Paperback)





6) The Middlegame, Book 2: Dynamic %26amp; Subjective Features (Algebraic Edition) (Bk. 2) (Paperback)





For the Openings you can't go wrong with John Watsons Book Mastering the Opening series.





Keep working on Tactics every day! Good luck in your road to improvement!|||well I'm only high 1600's for uscf. I suggest getting a good chess coach, if you don't have one already. Buy books on Kasparov, Tal, etc (whichever one plays your opening), and when you are going over their games you could cover up the game and do guess the move.|||Up there? I'm afraid you are on your own. A higher rated might know the answer for you, but see you as competition and not tell you.|||Puzzles do lots if them and study End games.