Well there is one sure fire way to improve - study tactics. Forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, double attacks, etc... And always check for your opponents (and your own) undefended pieces everytime before you move. Eventually you'll learn to spot them and more importantly you'll learn not to fall into tactical traps yourself.
There's tons of info on the web that can help you. Just do a search in google for chess lessons, or chess tactics, or something similiar and you'll get hundreds of hits.
The worst thing you can do is to just keep playing chess and not studying or trying to learn anything new. Just playing won't improve your game unless you combine playing with studying.
Good luck!
Play less games concurrently as well, and concentrate on each move to ensure that you are not losing material. It's easy to spend a minute (or 5, if that is what it takes) to check that there is nothing that can be immediately taken, especially here where you can play the moves on a baord.
Until you do that, and start to see very basic tactics naturally, any other advice will be superfluous.
Originally posted by knight77If you want some basic lessons (you'll not get more than basic from me) then send me a game, unrated, 7 day time out, 14 day timebank. Chose white for you and I advise you start with 1.e4 (if you understand that, if not move the pawn in front of your king 2 spaces forward). I'll talk you through what we're doing and why we're doing it, th eonly rule is that you concentrate on the game and the moves.
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a correct thinking process is the number 1 factor in improving, if you are missing threats, mates, elementary tactics etc. i've played several people rated over 2000 who have never read a chess book or studied the game at all but play awesome chess because they know how to think about the position and their moves. Forcing yourself to analyse every capture, check and threat of your opponent can be tiresome,but is vital if you want to improve drastically. And has been said, time devoted to studying tactics will pay dividends.
I think playing 90+ concurrent games is a bit ott, can you really remember your long term plans for each of these games or are you playing 1 move reaction chess?
Dan Heiseman covers this topic extremely well in his chesscafe.com articles. get over there and read his articles.