um... why don't you play me? i can try to help...
How can you get good, fast?
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Play with a friend which is a strong player and get advice from him. And play competitive chess. That's the best way.
yeah lorna....play with me. i'll teach you
to play fast and very fast take ferrari
lol...
There is no way you can get good in chess fast... except if you have a genious mind which can predict your opponents next move -_-...
It took me . . .half a year to get to 1400+...( I started playing chess half a year ago :D)
There are something to just keep you on track though...
- Pawns are very powerful~ (Very strong defence and offence) So take care of your pawns and take out your opponents~ Don't let your opponent seperate your pawns, pawns are most powerful when they are together~ GO TEAM~
- Look for the the weakness of your move. Meaning, always think about how your opponent will to response to your move.
- Look at the whole board before you move. Sometimes, bishops and knights are very tricky and sneaky. Also, thereare times where it seems like you are about to lose, but look carefully, you may find a way to strike back~
- Sometimes, sacrificing is the key to success~
All I can think of. . . I still make these mistakes though LOLZ, but after all, the more you lose the stronger you get~
Good luck~
One more point, play turn base chess before live, you can see more when you have time.
If you have spare time, play live chess with 2+ people at the same time, to maximize your thinking skill but it might crash your brain LOLZ
Good answer by EndingPride.
I improved by spending some time on basic openings (Scotch + Sicilian), and spending a lot of time on Chess Mentor and Tactics Trainer (although other things in my life have stopped me from doing this as much), and playing more live chess and OTB chess. Over the course of the last year I've achieved quite a lot in terms of my game. I know I still play on autopilot sometimes and just don't concentrate a lot, but that's my next effort.
One way I found to improve my chess game quite rapidly (from about 1300-1400) was to give myself an understanding of the strengths of the various pieces. While it's a more advanced book than I should have been reading, Reassess Your Chess really helped with this, and combined with spending some time going through master games myself on a board, I really got a much better understanding of what I should be doing with my moves, and why I should be making certain moves.
There are many books to read.
I have used the following with good results
Chess tactics by Paul Little
Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca
Understanding Chess Openings by Ruben Fines
A great book too is Pawn Power by Kmoch
Use the Mentor system here. It is pretty good.
As others have mentioned, study some good books.
Study LOTS OF TACTICS. I think you'll get your most bang for your buck by familiarizing yourself with as many tactical themes as possible, and then practicing them over the board. And then practice. A lot.
Balance your chess play by playing a mix of slow chess and speed chess. Slow chess helps you to hone your strategic thinking. Speed chess can help you improve the speed of your calculation.
Thanks everyone! Eh dunno if I'd be ready for speed chess just yet!
But will do on the book front! Anything is better than nothing!
there are two ways to play a good move,
1) build a supercomputer which will calculate the massive number a possabilities from every position that arises is chess, which is impossible if you want to build the computer within the universe and from matereal in this universe so they say...
2) study chess like crazy untill you reach a conclusive conclution (might take several thousands of generations or more, maybe it cannot be done, maybe chess cannot have conclusive rules which can be taght to a human being and can be applied in any position...).
you just have to decide what's quicker...
"Good" and "Fast" are such relative terms. When I was ten years old and probably about an 800 player, 1200 looked really "good," and I wanted to get there "fast," like in a month. When I got to about 1200 (many months later), it didn't look so "good" anymore, and it took years for me to get to an actual 1500+ USCF rating--mostly going about it the wrong way.
If you can swing a Diamond membership here at Chess.com (maybe for your July birthday?), you'll have unlimited use of four great trainers: Tactics Trainer, Game Explorer / Book Openings, Computer Workout, and--saving the best for last--Chess Mentor. These tools produce big improvement painlessly.
Simple--just be born with Paul Morphy's talent. 
Other than that, it's going to take two things--work and time.
Why don't you just take a look at the board, see what moves you can make to pressure your opponent, and what move he will generally try and do after, etc etc. Ive been playing for about a half a year now and I can see about 9 moves fairly easy.
Just keep playing. dont give up. learn Openings.. ( opening books work well for that) fine tune the openings you like.
Also.. try studying a Grandmaster.. i study fischer capablanca and kasparov.
learn from them.. from their victories to their defeats. :D
I'm one of the more younger players and I am only rated 850... (Been told I could be somewhere between 1000-1400) but that is playing schoolastic... My way is play a lot and look at a book here and there, making sure you study the position...
It might be easier to improve your rating if you stick to as few openings as you can. That way, you only have to learn the tactical themes that usually arise from those openings.
Get a chess engine, and analyze your games with it, sticking to your opening. If the computer suggests a move that you don't understand, play out the computer's line until you reach a point that you do understand it, and then go back to the original position in the game and play out the line in your head until you think you could calculate the correct move in an actual game instantly. Eventually, after learning from enough mistakes, you will master your game.
Remember, it doesn't matter how far ahead you can calculate; all that matters is if you can find the best move. So if you realize that only one move in a position would make sense, don't waste any time and just play it.
Blitz chess is very useful for improving; it teaches you not to waste time while thinking. This is how grandmasters think; in many positions, they look at it and simply due to pattern recognition, the best move pops in their head without consideration of any other moves.
Two words TACTICS+PLAYING
These have been key to me improveing exceedingly fast.I do tactical themes constantly to recognize them in my games to start.I play to see how well I understand these themes and apply them.
All the stratagy and positional play can wait and should be studied lightly due to most of your mistakes being made by tactical decisions.after a while you will start seeing moves ahead and start setting up these tactics to win.when you get a little further you will start seeing that tactics are just a means to a strategic goal.
This from personal expierence
I suck big time haha. No really!