Any Tips to Improve and trying to get to 1600+?

I've been trying for about a year or more, getting stuck, I don't understand what I'm lacking to 1600+. A couple weeks ago I almost got there, but still no more luck. Any advice or ideas?

why would I give for free?

Give what? I just want advice or something at least :/

St. Louis chess club videos on youtube were what helped me get to 1600. They have a ton of videos on things like endgames or middlegame attacking.

https://support.chess.com/article/437-how-do-i-get-better-at-chess

Maybe try doing lessons, drills, puzzles etc. Enjoy 

I am not past 1600 yet but you should definitely be focusing on building your opening repertoire, and Tactics-Tactics-Tactics.

Look at your games and try to recognize how games were won and how games slipped away and learn from there. I will share my own observation here.

The main difference I found about playing 1500-1550 rated players and 1600-1650 rated player is that against 1600 players its rare to get a really good position out of the opening. Against 1500-1550 players I often got dominant position or at least an equal position.

I also noticed a difference in how they improve their position during middle game. 1500-1550 players tend to look more for tactical positions while 1600-1650 players were better at building up positional pressure 

I didn't notice that much of a difference with endgame, games were already over in the middlegame.

The 1600 barrier is where I ended up stuck a very long time and its not until recently I got the necessary improvement to feel competitive against 1600 players.

Dear Yuann,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you.  Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals. 

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career. 

I hope this is helpful for you.  Good luck for your chess games! 

1600 was about the rating that I began to better investigate positional points of chess. These are patterns and themes such as infiltrating with Rooks on open files, blockading enemy isolated pawns, pawn structure pawn breaks, weak squares, weak color-complexes due to a lost Bishop and so on. 

Keep in mind that I "started" really investigating these things around 1600 rating, but I'm more or less in the same situation circa 1900 chess.com rating. It is similar to how a sub-1000 chess.com player learns about opening principles, but usually takes until about 1200 or 1300 rating before they are more fully utilizing opening principles...same thing here with a more positional mindset for 1600+ rating.

The good news is that to reach your chess.com rating, it probably means you have a solid grasp on tactics/patterns and theoretical endgames. If this is where you got in about a year, then this is a great learning pace! You've come a long ways already

Tactics/chess puzzles are useful at all ratings, but surprisingly - you don't need much of an "opening repertoire" by 1600 rating. By 1600 rating, I'd expect that player to typically have a "loose repertoire" of knowing what openings they play by name and key variations perhaps 5-10 moves deep (depending on the exact line of course). 

"Real" opening repertoire is something I see really being constructed more commonly at 2000+ rating. By "real" opening repertoire, I mean opening study into deeper variations and choosing their preferred lines based on evaluations and databases for all openings they expect to encounter. I know many chess.com friends over 2000 rating who still haven't really formally built an opening repertoire (at least two friends as highly rated as about 2400 chess.com without a formal repertoire! Of course, I'm always still impressed at how they find the "book moves" in their games by reasoning and positional awareness rather than memory for a preselected approach).

when ever i see a loong paragraph in a "help me to get better" topics i take a wild guess and think that is a coaching offer and %75 of them i win

Maybe closer to 50%, but I know what you mean lol

I guess I'm in the half that isn't offering formal chess coaching - just being helpful in the forums

I have no opening repertoire. Suggest tactics, calculation, positional awareness, finding reasonable moves fairly consistently and being aware of your opponents intentions and threats. Importantly, rarely blundering material, not even a pawn.

Do tactics, read a good chess book, and play against stronger players and find out why you lost.

Greatly explained.

I tell you how I got to almost 2000 rapid rating:

yeah, tell us

1. I practiced a lot of tactics 2. I played long time control games and I analyzeed them 3. I learned basic things about openings and I found some openings for both colors that suited my play style 4. I trained a lot more than I played