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Andrew Tate quotes about chess
50 quotes by Andrew Tate on chess from 32 videos, dated 2022–2026. The top line: “One, I think a lot of it came from chess, because chess is the most ruthless game on the planet, and what chess will teach you.” (DUBAI UNFILTERED WITH TATE, 25 Nov 2022, at 1:03:54).
Andrew Tate is a keen chess player and often uses chess to talk about strategy. Here are his words on the game, verbatim and linked to the second they are said.
“One, I think a lot of it came from chess, because chess is the most ruthless game on the planet, and what chess will teach you.”
DUBAI UNFILTERED WITH TATE “Chess teaches you everything you need to know about life.”
Chadcast Ep. 18 - Andrew Tate “There's certainly a lot you can attribute to chess from everyday life to the chess board.”
Andrew Tate is BACK The MOST BASED Podcast | Fresh and Fit (Dec 6, 2021) “I think that the world would be a better place if we threw all modern education out the window and just focused on chess instead.”
The Tim Dillon Show - Andrew Tate (Bucharest, Romania) “People think chess guys are nerds.”
DUBAI UNFILTERED WITH TATE “When we left, not only is there no chess scene in England, like there's in America.”
Andrew Tate Tells His Life Story - Anything Goes With James English “The way he fought, the way he boxed, was all down to the way he played chess.”
Piers Morgan Takes On Andrew Tate AGAIN! The Full Interview “Never forget that there was once a time when chess computers played against flesh and blood humans.”
EMERGENCY MEETING EPISODE 83 - WILD RIDE “If you're going to make a chess move, you need to look at the board.”
Andrew Tate x Frankie Lee - Part 1 “That's how good the best chess players in the world are.”
Andrew Tate is BACK The MOST BASED Podcast | Fresh and Fit (Dec 6, 2021) “Chess, when you understand it at the level that I was being trained to understand it and my dad understand it, is absolute brutality.”
Andrew Tate - PTW #13 (Rich Cooper Podcast) “In America, in schools and stuff, in England, there was no chess.”
The Official Podcast #46 - With Top G Andrew Tate “I definitely wouldn't say I was traumatized by it, but it did alter my life trajectory because I lost my chess coach.”
Andrew Tate Tells His Life Story - Anything Goes With James English “Up until then, I played chess three, four hours a day.”
Andrew Tate Tells His Life Story - Anything Goes With James English “My father's one of the best chess players in the world.”
Andrew Tate and Dave Portnoy go toe to toe — Bffs Ep. 88 “When I started with chess very young, to me, it was very easy to transition into something like fighting where it's one-on-one.”
Interview with Kickboxing Champion Andrew Tate (27 May, 2018) “Going back a little bit further than that, though, growing up, you were a chess player.”
Andrew Tate - The Grand-Master Of All Trades “My father was the highest rated black chess player in history.”
Andrew Tate Is The New Alex Jones - Anthony Pompliano Podcast “I look at the world like a chess board because I'm a chess player.”
Troy Francis Interviews Andrew Tate in London “Chess is a fantastic game because in the game of chess, there's no luck.”
She's not special - Andrew Tate Heartbreak Motivational Speech “Chess and fighting are very similar and they teach you a lot about life.”
A Psychologist Reacts to Andrew Tate March 21, 2021 “I'd go to chess tournaments when I was a kid and everybody there would be a world level chess player and everyone was a bit strange.”
Candace Owens x Andrew Tate Interview 2023 “I was thinking, you know, a long time ago, I used to play chess with a guy just just fun game.”
Interview with Kickboxing Champion Andrew Tate (27 May, 2018) “I grew up and I was a chess player from the age of four to the age of 13.”
Andrew Tate and Dave Portnoy go toe to toe — Bffs Ep. 88 “I was a professional chess player on my route to being a grandmaster.”
Andrew Tate and Dave Portnoy go toe to toe — Bffs Ep. 88 “The hardest sport in the world is world level chess.”
Andrew Tate Is The New Alex Jones - Anthony Pompliano Podcast “My dad could play chess without looking at a board.”
Andrew Tate Explains Free Speech, Masculinity, Money & Modern Culture | Mark Shapiro “I don't think I have the capacity for chess at world level.”
Chadcast Ep. 18 - Andrew Tate “If you play an amateur at chess... They'll just randomly move something.”
Andrew Tate x Frankie Lee - Part 1 “I used to have really bad brain fog, and I know this because I play chess every day.”
Andrew Tate (Cobra Tate) McLaren 720S - Andy Popescu “Once he said, you know, to get good at chess, you really have to want to win.”
Interview with Kickboxing Champion Andrew Tate “Perhaps one's physical, one's mental, but I would still argue that chess is harder.”
Andrew Tate Explains Free Speech, Masculinity, Money & Modern Culture | Mark Shapiro “America had a chess infrastructure in the lower income schools.”
Andrew Tate Interview with Patrick Bet-David (Madrid, Spain) “Our father was a professional chess player driving from chess tournament to chess tournament in a Pontiac Sunbird.”
EMERGENCY MEETING - Ep.11 “Had a couple thousand here maybe, but then he had to play chess with it for the next three or four months.”
EMERGENCY MEETING - Ep.11 “Driving across America from California to New York and it busted up Pontiac Sunbird, playing chess and winning games.”
EMERGENCY MEETING - Ep.11 “I don't read. But I play lots and lots of chess.”
Chadcast Ep. 18 - Andrew Tate “I used to play chess three, four hours a day.”
Andrew Tate - Full Season Reality Series “Everything I'm telling you now about corona and multiple passports and needing money is because I'm a perspicacious individual. I played chess when I was very, very young.”
Andrew Tate's first Appearance on Fresh & Fit (May 21, 2021) “I think he read three chess books and ended up being one of the best players in the world.”
Candace Owens x Andrew Tate Interview 2023 “I use chess a lot because I'm a chess player.”
Andrew Tate - The Truth about Women - Rollo Podcast “My elo for anyone who knows chess ratings is like 1800, which is, it's, it's all right.”
DUBAI UNFILTERED WITH TATE “Is this something, because you were a chess champion as a child, and chess is quite, you're trying to manipulate the other player into making mistakes and losing their right, etc.”
Depression isn't real with Andrew Tate (2017) “The chess program, you need to understand why chess must be mastered.”
The MINDSET You MUST Have To Achieve Anything | Tate Speech Ep. 71 (January 1, 2019) “Chess is not about hiding your intention.”
Andrew Tate's first Appearance on Fresh & Fit (May 21, 2021) “He'd walk into a chess club and he'd say, you get his last money in the world, 20 bucks.”
Feared Opponent in any Realm of Human Endeavor | Tate Speech Ep. 112 (May 2, 2019) “I think it's actually very interesting to think about chess strategy in terms of war strategy.”
Andrew Tate on chess — EmoryaTate, Dec 2025 “We're going to have a game of chess in a minute after the break, because you are a very good chess player.”
Piers Morgan Takes On Andrew Tate AGAIN! The Full Interview “I still play chess for hours a day, but, It's risk versus reward.”
BEFORE HE WAS FAMOUS - Andrew Tate (FULL interview) “Chess is no longer about trying to win, it's about trying not to lose.”
Andrew Tate Speaks Up After Jail | #ABtalks with Andrew Tate 2026
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