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The best way to learn chess?
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I learn by analyzing the games I play.İyi oyuncuların oyunlarını analiz ediyorum.
I look at book moves. I solve a lot of puzzles.
Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.
Books are arguably the best way to learn how to play chess well ...but they require that you actually study them.....and that is work......just owning them won't work. A really good chess coach would be extremely helpful as well, especially in terms of accelerating the learning process, but of course that could very quickly become much more expensive than purchasing books....
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Internet resources can be good for tips and suggestions for improving your play, and for brief,, immediate exposure to a wide variety of chess topics and concepts...but they generally can't compete with books in terms of depth of instruction and learning. The following article offers many instructive online resources on a variety of important chess topics....
Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
The following article provides some good resources for learning the King's Gambit.....including a couple of excellent book recommendations on that opening (search 'book')...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/the-kings-gambit
Dear Addi,
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 analyzing 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 is that it can't explain to you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why it is 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 with your games!
Does anybody know the best way to learn chess? Should we still use chess books? Or only online stuff? I wanted to learn the kings gambit on the internet. Then I discovered a book about it. And there is obviously much more things to say about it, because there are so many variations. So, what do you think?