Andrew Tate on Chess — every quote, timestamped

…too upset by it. You know, I was still, my father was very realistic with me and he said, look, I'm still going to see you, but you're going to England. It is what it is. So I don't think I was particularly upset by it. I definitely wouldn'…

Let's talk about the personal experience, right? So my father, my father was a chess player. My father's one of the best chess players in the world. It was actually the highest ranked black chess player in history at the time. I grew up and…

Then we moved into a council house. Mother was on the dole. She ended up getting a job as a dinner lady one time. That was it. We were raised on $300 a month. Our father was a professional chess player driving from chess tournament to chess…

…they don't have this stuff over themselves. Because we need to talk more about this kind of shit, and critical thinking as well. We'll get into that next. - Completely, you're totally right. I think there's two answers to the question. One,…

Then we moved into a council house. Mother was on the dole. She ended up getting a job as a dinner lady one time. That was it. We were raised on $300 a month. Our father was a professional chess player driving from chess tournament to chess…

So I didn't play chess properly for a while. There's no real chess program in British schools. There's a big chess program. Yeah, there's a big chess program in American schools. I went to school in Indiana. There's a big chess program. But…

…drinking gambling pimping like he's just out here he was just that guy right so he was like that to the end so he was a hero and um and you ended up you know taking after your father and playing chess at a high level as well correct what dr…

Then we moved into a council house. Mother was on the dole. She ended up getting a job as a dinner lady one time. That was it. We were raised on $300 a month. Our father was a professional chess player driving from chess tournament to chess…

All right. Yeah. No one's heard of it. It's not a party town. Okay. So yeah, I grew up in Goshen, Indiana. Um, my father was a chess grandmaster. I was on track to become a chess grandmaster. So he was a legitimate chess grandmaster. My fat…

Yeah, so I still want, when I moved from America to England, there was no chess infrastructure like there was in America. In America, there's chess in the schools and there's these big programs and blah, blah, blah. When I went to England,…

“Because my father was also a professional wrestler and had physicality. So you have like a bunch of dorks. Then you have my dad, this big black dude. And he's like competing in the chess world. So I grew up in a very kind of strange world.”

And it's very brutal. It's a brutal game. So when I moved to England, my chess career kind of ended because my father was most of the time still in America coming back and forth. I didn't have a coach anymore. Also, chess is not very big in…

So my dad would be in the kitchen, fucking around the kitchen, cooking dinner. I'd be in front of a chess board in the living room, and I'd say E4, he'd say C6. Knight F3, Knight C3. And he'd smoke me without looking at the board. That's ho…

Yeah, all in all, I don't really even believe in if it's a good year or a bad year. I'm a chess player. My father was a chess grandmaster. I was raised as a chess player. when you're in the middle of a chess game, even if you're losing, You…

Sometimes he had some crushing victories because of that. So he was a world-level chess player. I was raised playing chess. I was on track to be a grandmaster myself until my mother and father broke up. They divorced, and I left America whe…

…it's so easy in theory, but people, if you know what, I put everything down to chess because I'm a chess player. My dad was a chess player professional. I still play chess for hours a day, but, It's risk versus reward. So I had a guy, I'm g…

…and he needed money, he'd walk into a chess club. Back then there was chess clubs everywhere because the internet hadn't taken off. There wasn't internet chess. He'd walk into a chess club and he'd say, you get his last money in the world,…

And before anyone in the chat says the name Maurice Ashley to me, and Maurice Ashley has become a friend of mine and my brother since my father's passing. Maurice Ashley was the first chess black, the first black chess grandmaster. My dad p…

…okay okay okay that's how it all started you said the beginning my friend so here's we are no you're right but but maybe maybe this is a fast track but how the fuck you turn this into like man you're a fucking magnet for the bitches yeah be…

Sure. Because that's self-explanatory. We're going to have a game of chess in a minute after the break, because you are a very good chess player. I can hold my own in the chess pool. Your father was a chess international master. in fact, an…

“And you cannot be happy and strong in your mind if you are weak in your body. You need to have a strong body to have a strong mind as a man. There's no way to escape it. And that's one of the reasons why I preach so much about training.”

Confidence is a side effect to competence. If you get good at things, you'll naturally be confident. The reason you're not confident is because you're nothing to be confident in. I'm not fat, but I'm not skinny either. I don't like the so…

The Brokies are trying to get on the rich team. Now, primarily what the government will do is it will say, "Ah, Brokie, if you do XYZ, you'll end up on the rich team." But that's a lie. And they'll only do that to benefit the government. An…