Have you ever joined any chess clubs before?

That's right. Thing that you need to do is just play a lot more chess games. People said, "Practice makes perfect"

I agree that lots of practice is one of the keys to improvement in chess or in any sports. That is why one key to being good in one sport is having the passion for that sport, because that is the only way you could give more time and effort to master that craft and get to greater heights.

Just skill is surely not enough. You'll need to give great efforts as well..

In my case, I used to be highly active in tournaments online and offline when I was younger so that is how I got to the level I am now and become an online chess coach. When I play online before in ICC where there are a lot of titled players like grandmaster, beating one of these grandmasters sometimes is really a great high but now I'm in a point that I could beat them quite regularly but I would say if you add up the wins and losses against these titled players, they would still have a big edge of wins over me.

That could be easily understood, since they play chess regularly, and they take chess into the higher level: as their career. Why don't you take chess as your career as well? I found lots of people who love to turn their hobby as their career as they're loving it..

I agree with your observation, but I am almost 50 years old and I really have other plans instead of that. It could have been possible if I decided to pursue it as a career about 20 years ago but now I didn't have the dedication and the passion for chess like I used to have. I'm just happy to earn extra income from it for being a chess coach online.

Tons of welcome, subjojit. I agree that coaches could help a lot in improving the student's chess talents, and I am proud to say that I am currently an online chess coach/teacher for those who wanted to learn chess from beginner to intermediate. I used to have a lot of students in chess, but when I got into English lessons online I focused more on that and have neglected my chess lessons. Now I'm planning to go back to giving chess lessons online and would be willing to start with a lower fee than what I ask before which was $8 an hour. I now use a free site which is chess.com, but before I used a paid site called ICC or Internet Chess Club. Anyway, for now I don't join chess clubs anymore neither do I join chess tournaments too. I can see you're from India and I know Viswanathan Anand is from India. Is he still the world champion and have you met him? He used to live in our country the Philippines and studied here. I think he knows a little of Tagalog which is our native language.

Yes, I think for most people chess becomes an exciting sports in their younger days and later on is put in the sideline and was seldom played, except if you become a professional chess player. When I was young, being in a club makes playing more interesting and you have a lot of opportunities to play different types of players with different styles. This is where your natural talent develops as you develop ways and means to win whatever styles of play you face.

Agree. Chess game is not only mentally exhausting but physically draining especially during a very competitive match game. Also during our younger years we have more spare time to play the game unlike now we have tighter time schedule to follow.