[xiphias2]

Thanks, great advices, I will follow them.

Yes, I'm through the trivial things that's why I feel that I've got stuck.

Probably I spent too much time playing and not enough practicing.

What you write makes a lot of sense, I know the very basics of end game play, but not on my level for example, and just playing against people doesn't give me the consistency I need to get better faster.

The same with tactics, I can spend many hours playing with other people and I'm getting better with tactics, but again it's not enough to get consistent with pattern recognition.