Definetly,plus I think a lot of chess players overestimate how hard it is to reach 1700-1900 if you put the hours in,I'm willing to bet most of the under 1000 people haven't done all the hours of puzzles and games he's put in,but keep complaining
its not true, delibirate practise while only focusing on the most important things, allowed Tyler1 to get better. If he spent 2 hours a day he would still have gotten really good just might have taken a lot longer.
@@IsaakVedel i think the intensity of the work changes your brain far better. The one that plays 8 hours a day will probably sleep thinking of chess whilst the one that plays 2 hours a day is slighty improving and at a certain level simply maintaining.
No, its a combination of hard work and talent. If he didnt have talent for chess, he wouldnt be close to his present rating. His puzzle rating is a pretty good predictor of his talent in the sense of quick calculation/visualization skills. Reaced 3100 puzzle rating in 3 months, thats absolutely insane.
This is my summary on tyler: - Practice and learn as few opening as possible at the same time. - Stop wasting time looking for the best way of doing things and looking at multiple source of informations: choose one and just put in the hard work. - Believe you are good enough to learn and imagine yourself a winner. - Be conscious and aware during your games. - Let chess be a central thing in your life, think about it when you are not playing, and practice in your head also. - Do both a lot of puzzles and a lot of games.
@@mitigamespro8757 I mean a comprehensive repertoire more specifically. Openings, when studied correctly, expose you to so many different themes and ideas that you can manifest in your playing outside of theory. I think it’s a good idea to have a few different styles of openings to expose you to as many opening patterns as possible whilst being manageable. Naturally, I don’t think a beginner should spend too much time on learning openings without studying other concepts, but openings tend to be the place where beginners can capitalise the most against their opponents.
@@simpletakes7091 You'll get that attitude as good LoL gamer. Games takes at usually over 35 min and as a teamgame u might lose to your teammates mistakes or just some unlucky coinflip fights after you tried your best for 30-40 min. And youll lose almost 50% of your games. You have to learn to not let the last loss frustrate you and to optimise your own gameolay. Also I see many tactical similarities when it comes to chess and to lol. You develope yourself, put yourself in a favourable position by targeting certain objectives until you can finish your opponent off. You have to learn a looot of theory to even properly play the game. I am not surprised a top lol player already has the correct attitude developed to get good at chess, which doesnt have a "mechanical" skill cap. (aiming your mouse and pressing the correct buttoms at the correct time)
@@SmartDumbNerdyCool Hard to believe. A GM (Kramnik excluded) wouldn’t be such a child when someone does well in chess and made such improvements in just a year.
About this "only one opening" strategy, it makes a lot of sense that LOL players would do that. In League, we have a lot of players that calls themselves OTP(One Trick Poney) which means only playing with the same character. Tyler1 used to be a Draven OTP. This way you can have a more intricate and profound knowledge of one specific game state, which is all you need. I used to try to broaden my openings, but this is a changw that can make you improve significantly HOWEVER, this might be good for online chess, because the platform randomly matches you with someone, but it is flawed for tournaments. Since you become predictable and people can study your moves to find flaws and always start with an advantage, which is a huge thing in chess (of course there is countless problems in midgames and it is mot so easy to convert a win, but definetly helps)
Not much into chess, but stumbled on this video during a pivotal moment (mentally). The stick to it advice (albeit something I've heard, and even professed, elsewhere) is what I needed to hear right now. It's weird where you'll find that last piece. Max love brother.
One point you touched lightly on, but didn't emphasize enough is his extensive experience on strategy games like LoL at the highest levels. This experience has developed his strategic thinking, as well as thoroughly exercised his pattern recognition and memory which all translate well to chess. He didn't start from scratch.
@@uotafak8479 I mean I was top 0.2% in EUW when I played, care to tell me where you are or were ? it's low level strategy, i'd give both my hands you're low IQ or have less than a thousand hours in the game if you truly mean that
@@conormil1268 You've just said that you don't know how it happens, then just said it's no ones fault. If you don't know how it happens, then you don't know if it's anyone's fault or not, so saying that it's not someone's fault is you making an assumption based on something you don't know. I'd suggest that you not do that.
@@AmariLindsey-l5p Except miscarriages literally are, most of the time, not anyones fault. According to my 2 seconds of googling, miscarriages happen due to abnormal chromosomes in the baby. Idk how true that is, but I know damn well that you can't blame anyone for a miscarriage
@@AmariLindsey-l5p bruh im not saying i dont know how it happens im saying i dint know how their miscarriage happened. Its not any of our business, its not even our business to know that it happened at all. All i k ow is they wanted a baby, they had a miscarriage, and they were incredibly upset about it. Then his wife got pregnant again and they had a child. You can use some logical thinking and realize they didnt do anything to purposefully have a miscarriage. Instead of being a dipshit on a comment section, maybe YOU should just look up medical reasons people have miscarriages. Its not my responsibility to teach you that.
Not buying another book until you've read the one you're on is good advice. I feel like I buy too many "books" in my life and thats why I have surface level knowledge of many things as opposed to in depth knowledge of a few topics
This^ I would rather have great depth about 10 openings, and opposing 10 openings, than have a mountain of widespread knowledge without depth in any of them. That is basically what schools do, they teach you everything at a low depth and you remember only 30% of it.
Being able to grind and completely dedicate yourself to something is a talent in itself. People call that hard work but to be able to tolerate it is pure talent.
Playing lots of games is not just going to make you better. Learning with intent to get better is what makes you better. I play lots of games, but haven’t changed much because I have no plan or strategy I’m using. Just playing for fun. If I spend months learning strategies and tactics, I would dramatically improve.
This video was randomly suggested to me in my home feed. Really nice and sober take on things. Have a subscription, you deserve more! Hoping for more content
Honestly, he changed my approach too and it's starting to work. I try to do 100 puzzles every 2 days, usually shooting for more than that. I can literally feel it now when I sense a tactic is hidden. Then, I choose the wrong move but with the correct idea, or I get it right. Very rarely am I not able to see the idea. I am just not as good at calculating perfectly yet. Too bad I have a crippling fear of playing rated games! That's the next hill to climb. This might help me feel more confident at least
It's interesting to consider that Bobby Fischer had a similar approach to openings, he stick to the same openings and barely changed his repertoire until he had to in order to face stronger oponents.
my peak OTB uscf elo was in the 1700s, playing almost exclusively the english as white, and KID / sicilian as black. there really is a lot to be said about playing the same opening over and over at club elos. like you said, his opening is objectively bad, but if he's played it 3000 times, and an opponent who is objectively better has only played against that opening 15 times, he has a clear advantage despite being an "inferior" player. its like being a 1400 and someone who is rated 2200 decides to play the scandinavian. its an objectively bad opening, but they have a much better understanding of it and will probably win. also, as you said, the dude has the ability to sit there and grind for 14 hours a day. GM aman hambleton lost to an FM in title tuesday a while back, but that "FM" has a 2500+ elo FIDE, he just doesnt have the time to get IM or GM norms. although we can sit here and be annoyed that someone like tyler has a higher elo than us, if he sat there and played that many games of the same opening and didnt raise his elo, that would probably raise more questions than him hitting 1900 does. if you play the same opening over and over, you can spot the errors an opponent makes rather easy. i lost count of how many times i played the english against some kid in blitz or rapid otb, only for them to get their bishop trapped by c4-c5 because they werent used to a pawn being on c4 when they tried to pin my knight with their bishop
To get better in League of Legends you have to Master one Role and one, or at maximum a few champions in that specific role. Because if you master this one champion and role (Bottom Lane, Mid Lane, Top Lane, what ever), after that you can focus on the next important things like, map awareness etc. which is a huge part of success in LoL. If you play 10-20 different champions at the beginning you have constantly focus how to play him and you will have less attention for other things. I think the same rules are for chess.
I am following Tyler and I will tell you what is number one factor why he is improving quickly. He is not getting tilted. He is screaming etc but he plays and plays and without tilt. I was playing like that blitz which is the rating I dont care about and I have much higher success because I simply dont care. Even if he is losing he plays forward, because he is not tilted
Intention is the key factor over time and volume of games, if you have an intention on improving then you will pay more attention and actively commit more things to memory that count as improvement
Ya this is facts. He broke every rule but that's because most advice comes from titled players, and to be titled you need to do a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't matter on online speed chess I was stuck in the 1900s for a while, and watching tyler1 inspired me a lot. I hit 2k recently following his strategy completely. Specifically, I stopped playing 2-4 games a day where I carefully decided on my moves and technique. Instead, I jammed 10-20 games a day where I put my opponents under extreme time pressure and thought as hard as I could which tactical opportunities might exist Good luck getting 2k, you absolutely should copy t1 to get there
It's the indent on his head from wearing headphones since he was out of the womb. Makes for an enlarged brain with the skull forcing pressure on the brain
After i heard of this story a month ago I switched to only doing one type of opening like tyler and after being stuck at 600 elo for a year I just about pushed into 800 a few times in a matter of a few weeks. As soon as i hit 780ish elo i get nervous and start hanging pieces. Hard realization while doing this that i was playing whats technically supposed to be the best responses I actually had very low understanding of the openings meaning for mid game shenanigans.
I once heard he plays 40 games in one day. I may get 40 games in 2-4 months. He’s doing 2-4 months of work in one day (compared to me) so it’s not surprising to me that he’s climbed the elo latter so quickly
Obsession, obsession in the purest form. He simply can't help himself but to be the best at anything he does. He NEEDS and WANTS to be up there. He doesn't let the "complexity" of the game determine anything he does. He sees pieces moving and the base rules. He simply just isn't overcomplicating things.
Very good video, excellent points! I have about 50 chess books, but only read like 2 and never finished others, some never opened. Of course, like everyone else, I can spend like few hours a week, but all said in the video sounds very correct.
The reason Tyler has done so well is learning from mistakes. He plays one opening, get punished and says: 'well why did that happen, what can i do to prevent it'. This mindset lets you prepare for future games until you have a winning formula. If you see something new against your move order, you can utilise that for later games - to the point you have unlimited adaptability with your opening. If you know all the variations of your opening you can eliminate the bad ones and keep the good ones - forcing your opponent who may have less experience with that opening and playstyle to constantly be on the back foot or think on the fly. Someone thinking on the fly will always lose to someone who has planned ahead. Simply: His opponents have to figure out how to beat him, whilst Tyler knows how to beat them.
The only reason I am not rated 2200 is because the time/reward ratio wasn’t there. I spend that much time researching, creating and inventing, and sacrificing that for chess is really silly for my particular set of priorities. If you want it, you can get there, you just have to be honest about what you actually desire
I went to 1500 in 40ish days and then i quit chess for a year and recently got back on and im like high 1300s. Its pretty random i would say. Most of the increase was spontaneous and dramatic as i started at 350 and was stuck on 600-700 after like 10 days and then in just two days i went from 700 to 1300 and then the rest was gradual again.
I also didnt focus on chess openings, naturally my endgame is supreme so i could always bounce back from a losibg positiok if it goes as far as endgame but what i did a lot were puzzles, fog of war and 4player chess. Puzzles for pattern recognition, fog of war for tactics and sort of keeping a mental check of where the pieces are on the board, 4player was great to learn how to defend since you sometimes get attackef by two or even three players at the same time, i got to 2200 in 4player and 1900 in fog of war, not sure what my puzzles are.
You know what’s crazy, the reason he can lazer focus for so long it’s probably because he plays so much draven in league, if I ever play draven too much I get a headache, I’m tired of catching every axe 😭🙏 but props to Tyler getting that good while playing draven leveled up his brain
Can we all stop with this "started from 200 elo" bullshit? That rating is heavily tanked because he played those games while in champ select for league and just straight up left soo many of them. His actual starting rating was ~900 i believe. He himself has made this point several times but every content creator seems to keep ignoring it. I'm not trying to undermine his achievement whatsoever, love the guy BigBrother 2000 QueueUp
The opening is not important at lower levels. It is, however, important when it comes to very top level. This is because the players will know how to punish sub-par openings and when you reach the middl-game, you will already be at a disadvantage.
He said once on stream he has photographic memory, and nobody cared, but now idk... I mean good memory is essential for chess, I think some noruegian player would agree.
Good food for thought. I tend to get tired of playing the same opening and took a year off of chess and dropped 400 points. One day when I have some disposable cash I'm going to get diamond and do a bunch of puzzles. Still won't have an eighth of time in the day as Tyler1 but that's okay.
Tyler1 was never mechanically gifted, certainly not compared to those around him at higher elos. The reason he was able to do what he did in LoL is he had a great understanding of the macro game and strategies, something that probably helps us understand why he has taken to chess so well.
tyler1 is a league player that got to challenger maining every lane. thats his secret, playing videogames specially competitive real time games at high level gives him a trained patter recognition mind and learning ability, him picking rapidchess also was a smart move he probably can think or react faster than your average player because of the nature of league of legends, giving him a natural advantage in rapid.
Ofc openings matter.. u want to play a long game for a draw or in a lost position from move 5-10 for hours? So learn openings . Unless you are going to play 10+0, but then this is nothing like tournaments
Theres some truth to this, but there are lots of people who do the same thing over and over and don't get good at it. There has to be some focus on improvement. practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice does
Tyler 1 is kinda like me in a sense and it pays off most of the time.. Usually when i play games with my friends they are so heavily focused on min maxing stuff, being super efficient with every material, exploring every single nook and cranny on the map that is usually a waste of time, Stockpiling all the items JUST IN CASE they might need it 15 years from now down the line... Knowing the descriptions and importance of every item in the game, How can you efficiently earn 15 million credits / Gold etc in 10 years time. Tyler 1 on the otherhand doesnt care about this stuff, He doesnt care about the most efficent way, the best way. he even invests 10 million right upfront if it makes him get 15 million in 6 years.. he isnt a wikipedia page but a player. he probably picked the cow opening because its the easiest opening for him to learn chess and because he is just focused on learning he will climb 100x faster then everyone else. And while i cant comment on wether Tyler 1 is talented or not since i dont watch him that much at all, sheer willpower alone will beat out 90% of people because they usually are more focused on finding an excuse for why he is successful rather then putting time into the game themself and since most people are wikipedia pages, they feel like they know more then him.
Tyler spends most of his time playing league and also has gym and family/girlfriend obligations. I think the "elephant in the room" isn't as big as implied. As a religious gym member, he definitely has the doer mindset you brought up but there's one thing that I think is the real fuel behind his climb: he takes losses very seriously. This is something we see from Hikaru and Mag but that difference makes him analyze each loss, something he did in league. I also think his lack of chess education/opening theory etc is a blessing as that's mainly useful in fast chess, in familiar positions and at high accuracy chess in other words, those aren't true fundamentals. The true fundamentals of chess are tactical vision and calculaton.
Even the pros show that against normal players, the opening isn't as important. Look at the games with hikaru or Magnus pushing their rook pawns first etc. and still winning against 3000+ rated players. I agree the opening is important, but also as you said the tactics and knowledge of the rest of the game tend to be the deciding factor for who wins.
My main takeaway from Tyler’s accomplishment is that if you can do what you enjoy with concentrated effort for 12 hours a day, you will get good.
Attention spans 📉📉📉
Definetly,plus I think a lot of chess players overestimate how hard it is to reach 1700-1900 if you put the hours in,I'm willing to bet most of the under 1000 people haven't done all the hours of puzzles and games he's put in,but keep complaining
its not true, delibirate practise while only focusing on the most important things, allowed Tyler1 to get better. If he spent 2 hours a day he would still have gotten really good just might have taken a lot longer.
@@IsaakVedel i think the intensity of the work changes your brain far better. The one that plays 8 hours a day will probably sleep thinking of chess whilst the one that plays 2 hours a day is slighty improving and at a certain level simply maintaining.
No, its a combination of hard work and talent. If he didnt have talent for chess, he wouldnt be close to his present rating. His puzzle rating is a pretty good predictor of his talent in the sense of quick calculation/visualization skills. Reaced 3100 puzzle rating in 3 months, thats absolutely insane.
This is my summary on tyler:
- Practice and learn as few opening as possible at the same time.
- Stop wasting time looking for the best way of doing things and looking at multiple source of informations: choose one and just put in the hard work.
- Believe you are good enough to learn and imagine yourself a winner.
- Be conscious and aware during your games.
- Let chess be a central thing in your life, think about it when you are not playing, and practice in your head also.
- Do both a lot of puzzles and a lot of games.
Great summary
As much as your elo will suffer, having a proper repertoire is much more beneficial for your general chess skills than spamming one opening every time
@@lewisjones284 Except the whole point is for you to have a repertoire of answers to different openings, not you playing multiple openings.
@@mitigamespro8757 I mean a comprehensive repertoire more specifically. Openings, when studied correctly, expose you to so many different themes and ideas that you can manifest in your playing outside of theory. I think it’s a good idea to have a few different styles of openings to expose you to as many opening patterns as possible whilst being manageable. Naturally, I don’t think a beginner should spend too much time on learning openings without studying other concepts, but openings tend to be the place where beginners can capitalise the most against their opponents.
The strategy is really just that you can brute force yourself into the top 10% of anything by time, effort and consistency.
I think his greatest positive for him his ability to not tilt after playing many games for several hours straight
Facts. Key because you’ll lose like 50% of your games, it’s better to just accept that.
League has prepared him well for that.
@@simpletakes7091 You'll get that attitude as good LoL gamer. Games takes at usually over 35 min and as a teamgame u might lose to your teammates mistakes or just some unlucky coinflip fights after you tried your best for 30-40 min. And youll lose almost 50% of your games. You have to learn to not let the last loss frustrate you and to optimise your own gameolay. Also I see many tactical similarities when it comes to chess and to lol. You develope yourself, put yourself in a favourable position by targeting certain objectives until you can finish your opponent off. You have to learn a looot of theory to even properly play the game.
I am not surprised a top lol player already has the correct attitude developed to get good at chess, which doesnt have a "mechanical" skill cap. (aiming your mouse and pressing the correct buttoms at the correct time)
we can learn that autism and asperger syndrome are capable of anything just high motivation ;
Non league player just can't understand the pure pain of playing 4games in a row. This guy easily does 15-20
He grinds out 40 games a day playing the same opening.
That’s literally one of the long established formulas for improving.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee
One trick pony
@@SmartDumbNerdyCoolOne trick money that would destroy you
@@starmorpheus I'm a GM so not really
@@SmartDumbNerdyCool Hard to believe. A GM (Kramnik excluded) wouldn’t be such a child when someone does well in chess and made such improvements in just a year.
About this "only one opening" strategy, it makes a lot of sense that LOL players would do that. In League, we have a lot of players that calls themselves OTP(One Trick Poney) which means only playing with the same character.
Tyler1 used to be a Draven OTP. This way you can have a more intricate and profound knowledge of one specific game state, which is all you need.
I used to try to broaden my openings, but this is a changw that can make you improve significantly
HOWEVER, this might be good for online chess, because the platform randomly matches you with someone, but it is flawed for tournaments. Since you become predictable and people can study your moves to find flaws and always start with an advantage, which is a huge thing in chess (of course there is countless problems in midgames and it is mot so easy to convert a win, but definetly helps)
Not much into chess, but stumbled on this video during a pivotal moment (mentally). The stick to it advice (albeit something I've heard, and even professed, elsewhere) is what I needed to hear right now. It's weird where you'll find that last piece. Max love brother.
Max love, we just gotta keep rolling!
One point you touched lightly on, but didn't emphasize enough is his extensive experience on strategy games like LoL at the highest levels. This experience has developed his strategic thinking, as well as thoroughly exercised his pattern recognition and memory which all translate well to chess. He didn't start from scratch.
There's no such thing as "exercising pattern recognition".
League is very low level strategy tho. And yes IK how the game works
@@maximusd26 You are, with 100% certainty, low elo. I'd give both my hands on that, if you truly mean that lol
@@uotafak8479 I mean I was top 0.2% in EUW when I played, care to tell me where you are or were ? it's low level strategy, i'd give both my hands you're low IQ or have less than a thousand hours in the game if you truly mean that
@@redblue51401 google search and you'll see that "exercising pattern recognition" is a very real thing
He also came out and said he started putting in insane time to the game to distract himself from him and his wife's miscarriage
Why'd his wife have a miscarraige?
@@AmariLindsey-l5p idk it happens sometimes unfortunately. No ones fault
@@conormil1268 You've just said that you don't know how it happens, then just said it's no ones fault. If you don't know how it happens, then you don't know if it's anyone's fault or not, so saying that it's not someone's fault is you making an assumption based on something you don't know. I'd suggest that you not do that.
@@AmariLindsey-l5p Except miscarriages literally are, most of the time, not anyones fault. According to my 2 seconds of googling, miscarriages happen due to abnormal chromosomes in the baby. Idk how true that is, but I know damn well that you can't blame anyone for a miscarriage
@@AmariLindsey-l5p bruh im not saying i dont know how it happens im saying i dint know how their miscarriage happened. Its not any of our business, its not even our business to know that it happened at all. All i k ow is they wanted a baby, they had a miscarriage, and they were incredibly upset about it. Then his wife got pregnant again and they had a child. You can use some logical thinking and realize they didnt do anything to purposefully have a miscarriage. Instead of being a dipshit on a comment section, maybe YOU should just look up medical reasons people have miscarriages. Its not my responsibility to teach you that.
The Cow opening is not that bad If your opponents don't punish it within the first 10 moves. Still works at 2000+ level
That’s a big if! But agreed.
@@simpletakes7091 i play the hippo at 1850 rapid and win where the computer calls me -1
it took me a year to go from 218 to 1850 in 9 months my name is KingPa9da
@@KingPanda-lp5ir A year in 9 months?
@@themorosov7 Weird things happen when you play at the speed of light
One day, "Big Tonka T" will be written next to Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
Not buying another book until you've read the one you're on is good advice. I feel like I buy too many "books" in my life and thats why I have surface level knowledge of many things as opposed to in depth knowledge of a few topics
This^
I would rather have great depth about 10 openings, and opposing 10 openings, than have a mountain of widespread knowledge without depth in any of them. That is basically what schools do, they teach you everything at a low depth and you remember only 30% of it.
Good thoughts, thank you, and I hope your channel grows fast ...
waiting for more content
Being able to grind and completely dedicate yourself to something is a talent in itself. People call that hard work but to be able to tolerate it is pure talent.
Dude your channel is under rated.
Playing lots of games is not just going to make you better. Learning with intent to get better is what makes you better. I play lots of games, but haven’t changed much because I have no plan or strategy I’m using. Just playing for fun.
If I spend months learning strategies and tactics, I would dramatically improve.
Great video, dude. Well made and succinctly delivered.
AWESOME ASSESSMENT AND TEACHING VIDEO! Thank you.
Don't worry, he passed me too XD
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
Bro when you said how he was determined to not go through tutorial hell was so GOATED, got me hyped. Subbed!
leggo!
As the wise Ron Swanson said: “never half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing.”
Man! What a great breakdown!
Thank you brother ❤
so good, thanks for the share...puzzles here we come...
Super good video, your explanations are fantastic. Underrated channel 🤝
I loved the way you go straight to the point. Subscribed!
This video was randomly suggested to me in my home feed. Really nice and sober take on things. Have a subscription, you deserve more! Hoping for more content
Appreciate this comment! And will do!
Chess is hard, but solo grinding league is CANCER
Incredible, Incredible, Incredible Video! So underrated for only having 400 subs 🙌
Wow, thank you!
0:27 whats that site or app?
Honestly, he changed my approach too and it's starting to work. I try to do 100 puzzles every 2 days, usually shooting for more than that. I can literally feel it now when I sense a tactic is hidden.
Then, I choose the wrong move but with the correct idea, or I get it right. Very rarely am I not able to see the idea. I am just not as good at calculating perfectly yet.
Too bad I have a crippling fear of playing rated games! That's the next hill to climb. This might help me feel more confident at least
Sticking to 1 opening in chess is somewhat analogous to the concept of 1-tricking in League of Legends. Smooth move, Tyler.
It's interesting to consider that Bobby Fischer had a similar approach to openings, he stick to the same openings and barely changed his repertoire until he had to in order to face stronger oponents.
Didn’t know that, amazing.
Wow tyler1 is the next Bobby Fischer
If you spend 15 minutes a day on one thing. In 1 year you will be better than 90% of the population at that thing.
I think 2k elo IS more than 90%
True, I am now master wanker
@@vittocraziTyler1 also played way more than 15 minutes though
@@dvh6298 i know
@@dvh6298 yeah a little bit more lmfao
0:27 Where is this interactive opening map from?
blog.ebemunk.com/a-visual-look-at-2-million-chess-games/
@@simpletakes7091 Thank you!
keep up the great work
Really accurate assessment on improving anything in general 👌
Great breakdown man I love breaking stuff like this down glad to hear your thoughts on it!
my peak OTB uscf elo was in the 1700s, playing almost exclusively the english as white, and KID / sicilian as black. there really is a lot to be said about playing the same opening over and over at club elos. like you said, his opening is objectively bad, but if he's played it 3000 times, and an opponent who is objectively better has only played against that opening 15 times, he has a clear advantage despite being an "inferior" player. its like being a 1400 and someone who is rated 2200 decides to play the scandinavian. its an objectively bad opening, but they have a much better understanding of it and will probably win.
also, as you said, the dude has the ability to sit there and grind for 14 hours a day. GM aman hambleton lost to an FM in title tuesday a while back, but that "FM" has a 2500+ elo FIDE, he just doesnt have the time to get IM or GM norms. although we can sit here and be annoyed that someone like tyler has a higher elo than us, if he sat there and played that many games of the same opening and didnt raise his elo, that would probably raise more questions than him hitting 1900 does. if you play the same opening over and over, you can spot the errors an opponent makes rather easy. i lost count of how many times i played the english against some kid in blitz or rapid otb, only for them to get their bishop trapped by c4-c5 because they werent used to a pawn being on c4 when they tried to pin my knight with their bishop
Got inspired by that man, I went from 1180 in march to 1440 now, I’m still climbing and my goal is 2000 for now.
I started in mid april and my initial rating was 400 and today , I reached 1400
Now, aim to reach 1500 by this month
To get better in League of Legends you have to Master one Role and one, or at maximum a few champions in that specific role. Because if you master this one champion and role (Bottom Lane, Mid Lane, Top Lane, what ever), after that you can focus on the next important things like, map awareness etc. which is a huge part of success in LoL. If you play 10-20 different champions at the beginning you have constantly focus how to play him and you will have less attention for other things. I think the same rules are for chess.
Came to learn about his success, ended up with motivation for studying.
I am following Tyler and I will tell you what is number one factor why he is improving quickly. He is not getting tilted. He is screaming etc but he plays and plays and without tilt.
I was playing like that blitz which is the rating I dont care about and I have much higher success because I simply dont care. Even if he is losing he plays forward, because he is not tilted
Intention is the key factor over time and volume of games, if you have an intention on improving then you will pay more attention and actively commit more things to memory that count as improvement
Its not just about practise its about perfect practising well and effecient
Ya this is facts. He broke every rule but that's because most advice comes from titled players, and to be titled you need to do a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't matter on online speed chess
I was stuck in the 1900s for a while, and watching tyler1 inspired me a lot. I hit 2k recently following his strategy completely.
Specifically, I stopped playing 2-4 games a day where I carefully decided on my moves and technique. Instead, I jammed 10-20 games a day where I put my opponents under extreme time pressure and thought as hard as I could which tactical opportunities might exist
Good luck getting 2k, you absolutely should copy t1 to get there
Good video, interesting and to the point. Your channel is well named thanks and peace and positivity to everyone.
Great video!! Keep up the good work!
I liked the way you explained this bro, nice video!
Good advice
Just bought a book and will actually try to stick this one through
It's the indent on his head from wearing headphones since he was out of the womb. Makes for an enlarged brain with the skull forcing pressure on the brain
quality content from an unknown youtuber. keep it up man!
After i heard of this story a month ago I switched to only doing one type of opening like tyler and after being stuck at 600 elo for a year I just about pushed into 800 a few times in a matter of a few weeks. As soon as i hit 780ish elo i get nervous and start hanging pieces. Hard realization while doing this that i was playing whats technically supposed to be the best responses I actually had very low understanding of the openings meaning for mid game shenanigans.
I am patiently waiting for him tor return and surpass 2000 xD
Lmao same.
Great video!
Thanks!
I wish i would have the same endurance for learning stuff.
I once heard he plays 40 games in one day. I may get 40 games in 2-4 months. He’s doing 2-4 months of work in one day (compared to me) so it’s not surprising to me that he’s climbed the elo latter so quickly
This was really well done video thanks MKBHD of chess
The perfect blend of time, talent, and discipline.
0:27 I NEED the url to whatever website this is lmao
Obsession, obsession in the purest form. He simply can't help himself but to be the best at anything he does. He NEEDS and WANTS to be up there. He doesn't let the "complexity" of the game determine anything he does. He sees pieces moving and the base rules. He simply just isn't overcomplicating things.
Very good video, excellent points! I have about 50 chess books, but only read like 2 and never finished others, some never opened. Of course, like everyone else, I can spend like few hours a week, but all said in the video sounds very correct.
The reason Tyler has done so well is learning from mistakes.
He plays one opening, get punished and says: 'well why did that happen, what can i do to prevent it'.
This mindset lets you prepare for future games until you have a winning formula.
If you see something new against your move order, you can utilise that for later games - to the point you have unlimited adaptability with your opening.
If you know all the variations of your opening you can eliminate the bad ones and keep the good ones - forcing your opponent who may have less experience with that opening and playstyle to constantly be on the back foot or think on the fly.
Someone thinking on the fly will always lose to someone who has planned ahead.
Simply: His opponents have to figure out how to beat him, whilst Tyler knows how to beat them.
In terms of focus Tyler has the most solid mental of any streamer I've seen
Bro has unlocked something we haven't yet
In the right hand panel, RUclips has a video titled, "I Made Tyler1 A Chess Prodigy in 30 Days by Anna Cramling". Funny that.
solid video, keep it up man
I didn't see it mentioned, what time control were all his games?
Thanks Daniel (10 + 0)
The only reason I am not rated 2200 is because the time/reward ratio wasn’t there. I spend that much time researching, creating and inventing, and sacrificing that for chess is really silly for my particular set of priorities. If you want it, you can get there, you just have to be honest about what you actually desire
Very valid.
I'd like to see Tyler attempt OTB games.
does anyone know what that pie chart with openings was called and where i can access it?
I fear not the man who has practiced 1000 openings one time, but the man who has practiced 1 opening 1000 times
Whats that program called used in 0:30 ?
If you're an esports level player, you can learn any game given enough time and effort
I went to 1500 in 40ish days and then i quit chess for a year and recently got back on and im like high 1300s. Its pretty random i would say. Most of the increase was spontaneous and dramatic as i started at 350 and was stuck on 600-700 after like 10 days and then in just two days i went from 700 to 1300 and then the rest was gradual again.
I also didnt focus on chess openings, naturally my endgame is supreme so i could always bounce back from a losibg positiok if it goes as far as endgame but what i did a lot were puzzles, fog of war and 4player chess. Puzzles for pattern recognition, fog of war for tactics and sort of keeping a mental check of where the pieces are on the board, 4player was great to learn how to defend since you sometimes get attackef by two or even three players at the same time, i got to 2200 in 4player and 1900 in fog of war, not sure what my puzzles are.
'I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.' - Bruce Lee
Waryaaaa…. I’m so pleased to have stumbled across your channel.
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You know what’s crazy, the reason he can lazer focus for so long it’s probably because he plays so much draven in league, if I ever play draven too much I get a headache, I’m tired of catching every axe 😭🙏 but props to Tyler getting that good while playing draven leveled up his brain
Can we all stop with this "started from 200 elo" bullshit? That rating is heavily tanked because he played those games while in champ select for league and just straight up left soo many of them. His actual starting rating was ~900 i believe. He himself has made this point several times but every content creator seems to keep ignoring it. I'm not trying to undermine his achievement whatsoever, love the guy BigBrother 2000 QueueUp
he was completely new to the game wasn’t he? 900 rating as a complete beginner? If I remember right he didn’t even know how the pieces moved
@@chaniibak7702right? I think it just maybe 400 elo, that’s where I started, but you can go down to 200 if you loose to much.
@@chaniibak7702the climb to one thousand is mostly just understanding the game. 900 is pretty high for a newbie, but 200 is crazy low
BigBrother running it down 8th rank
The opening is not important at lower levels. It is, however, important when it comes to very top level. This is because the players will know how to punish sub-par openings and when you reach the middl-game, you will already be at a disadvantage.
You have prepared a nice video based on the problems of people in daily life, it is a really useful video, congratulations.
He said once on stream he has photographic memory, and nobody cared, but now idk... I mean good memory is essential for chess, I think some noruegian player would agree.
Good food for thought. I tend to get tired of playing the same opening and took a year off of chess and dropped 400 points. One day when I have some disposable cash I'm going to get diamond and do a bunch of puzzles. Still won't have an eighth of time in the day as Tyler1 but that's okay.
Tyler1 was never mechanically gifted, certainly not compared to those around him at higher elos. The reason he was able to do what he did in LoL is he had a great understanding of the macro game and strategies, something that probably helps us understand why he has taken to chess so well.
His puzzle score is INSANE. I'm only between 3000 and 3100 and I've been doing it for many years
my peak was 2700 but I hover around 2500, and that's after 126 hours and a year. His score blew my mind
tyler1 is a league player that got to challenger maining every lane.
thats his secret, playing videogames specially competitive real time games at high level gives him a trained patter recognition mind and learning ability,
him picking rapidchess also was a smart move he probably can think or react faster than your average player because of the nature of league of legends, giving him a natural advantage in rapid.
This. I think people don’t realize how complex high level league is and how fast you have to make a choice and act
If you survive League until Challenger more than one time, you survive everything. He is immune to burn outs
Ofc openings matter.. u want to play a long game for a draw or in a lost position from move 5-10 for hours? So learn openings . Unless you are going to play 10+0, but then this is nothing like tournaments
A off-beat opening works well especially in faster time control chess, I guess. Thoughts on Reverse Benko Gambit for white?
Tyler1 is insane. He is a genius and a 7 feet tall 500 lb beast. Also he totally doesn't have a dent in his head from his headphones.
🙌
what is that website at 0:28
That if you have infinite time and just keep doing "the thing" you will eventually get good.
Theres some truth to this, but there are lots of people who do the same thing over and over and don't get good at it. There has to be some focus on improvement. practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice does
Dude what is that pie chart looking opening chart?
I can’t seem to find it anymore, it’s some lichess millions of openings visualized. Found it on Reddit.
Tyler 1 is kinda like me in a sense and it pays off most of the time.. Usually when i play games with my friends they are so heavily focused on min maxing stuff, being super efficient with every material, exploring every single nook and cranny on the map that is usually a waste of time, Stockpiling all the items JUST IN CASE they might need it 15 years from now down the line... Knowing the descriptions and importance of every item in the game, How can you efficiently earn 15 million credits / Gold etc in 10 years time. Tyler 1 on the otherhand doesnt care about this stuff, He doesnt care about the most efficent way, the best way. he even invests 10 million right upfront if it makes him get 15 million in 6 years.. he isnt a wikipedia page but a player. he probably picked the cow opening because its the easiest opening for him to learn chess and because he is just focused on learning he will climb 100x faster then everyone else. And while i cant comment on wether Tyler 1 is talented or not since i dont watch him that much at all, sheer willpower alone will beat out 90% of people because they usually are more focused on finding an excuse for why he is successful rather then putting time into the game themself and since most people are wikipedia pages, they feel like they know more then him.
I think the takeaway is do not buy openings book too early.
Tyler spends most of his time playing league and also has gym and family/girlfriend obligations.
I think the "elephant in the room" isn't as big as implied.
As a religious gym member, he definitely has the doer mindset you brought up but there's one thing that I think is the real fuel behind his climb: he takes losses very seriously. This is something we see from Hikaru and Mag but that difference makes him analyze each loss, something he did in league.
I also think his lack of chess education/opening theory etc is a blessing as that's mainly useful in fast chess, in familiar positions and at high accuracy chess in other words, those aren't true fundamentals. The true fundamentals of chess are tactical vision and calculaton.
Plain and simple, play longer games. Pick a good book… and read it! With friends or other players if possible.
He's now not played any games since early May...
Tyler is the GOAT
his rating didnt change between november and march
Even the pros show that against normal players, the opening isn't as important. Look at the games with hikaru or Magnus pushing their rook pawns first etc. and still winning against 3000+ rated players. I agree the opening is important, but also as you said the tactics and knowledge of the rest of the game tend to be the deciding factor for who wins.