Social Has anyone been following Tyler1's chess career?

[HOLA]

Any chess fans here?

I'm not familiar with Tyler1 outside of chess. Apparently, he's a big deal in the League Of Legends community. Also has some popular memes made of him, I think. Whatever.

More importantly, he just started playing chess 1 year ago. His rating was 199 1 year ago, which is impressively bad. He only plays The Cow opening, both for white and black, which is a pretty shitty opening. But the man just kept on going full steam ahead. He's now rated 1921, which places him in the 99.5% percentile on Chess.com. And he took a 3 month break at one point. He's also taken a break since May. So, really, he accomplished this in only a few months of play time. Here's his profile on Chess.com:

BIG_TONKA_T Blitz Chess Stats and Rating

www.chess.com

He's even defeated someone ranked 2139. He's completly obliterated what people thought was possible with chess progression.

Because he's a professional streamer, he has time on his hands, and he's played 8700 games, which definitely helps (he even once binged for 24 hours straight playing games), but still, there are many people on that site with that many games who haven't come close to his rating. It's impressive as hell.

 

[HOLA]

Also of interest to Sherdoggers, here is

Mark Hunt's Chess.com profile: https://www.chess.com/member/1markhunt

Lennox Lewis has one too. He's rated like 1100. I forget the name. He mentioned it on Rogaine's podcast, I'll see if I can track it down.

 

[Fedorgasm]

That's pretty impressive but like you said, he has lots of free time to dedicate to playing.

I always go through the same cycle. I start playing, get my rating up to 1300 or so, then lose interest and stop playing for years. Then pick it up again and get smoked until my rating goes down to 900ish, then I improve back to to 1300 and lose interest again

 

[Sweater of AV]

Never heard of him. Lol at he only plays the cow opening. He’s probably trying to date Pia’s daughter.

 

[HOLA]

Never heard of him. Lol at he only plays the cow opening. He’s probably trying to date Pia’s daughter.

Yeah, she claims she invented it, but other people claim she just helped popularize it.

Her mom, who is an actual grandmaster, doesn't seem too impressed by it, either.

 

[HOLA]

Here is Lennox Lewis' Chess account: https://www.chess.com/member/inter2000

 

[KaNesDeath]

I'm not familiar with Tyler1 outside of chess. Apparently, he's a big deal in the League Of Legends community.

Since i watch esports and other streamers on Twitch im familiar with him through association. He's a well known LoL player/streamer within the live streaming gaming community.

Over the past few months ive briefly heard about his achievements in online chess especially with his rating. Dont know how genuine this is. For an odd thing happens when a small influencer community attracts a top one percentile Twitch streamer. They are treated like a well behaved five year old. In hopes their continued interest grows this influencer genre. While all accomplishments are given the most favorable interpretation.

 

[HOLA]

Since i watch esports and other streamers on Twitch im familiar with him through association. He's a well known LoL player/streamer within the live streaming gaming community.

Over the past few months ive briefly heard about his achievements in online chess especially with his rating. Dont know how genuine this is. For an odd thing happens when a small influencer community attracts a top one percentile Twitch streamer. They are treated like a well behaved five year old. In hopes their continued interest grows this influencer genre. While all accomplishments are given the most favorable interpretation.

As someone who is pretty into chess and has no idea who he is outside of it, I can definitely say his achievements in chess are super impressive. Just look at the percentile. He's literally better than 99.5% of the people on Chess.com, less than a year after learning the game. And Chess has a huge worldwide participation, with many people taking the game VERY seriously.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

It's hard to say whats his chess ceiling is. There's probably a much steeper curve the higher you become. I mean just look at the botox sisters (lul).

Tyler1 is the type of a player who can stream for 24-48 hours straight without blinking. He's been doing it for at least over a decade now. It's that type of a personality

 

[KaNesDeath]

He's literally better than 99.5% of the people on Chess.com, less than a year after learning the game.

Saying exists in esport called 'lan proven'.

 

[filthybliss]

Any chess fans here?

I'm not familiar with Tyler1 outside of chess. Apparently, he's a big deal in the League Of Legends community. Also has some popular memes made of him, I think. Whatever.

More importantly, he just started playing chess 1 year ago. His rating was 199 1 year ago, which is impressively bad. He only plays The Cow opening, both for white and black, which is a pretty shitty opening. But the man just kept on going full steam ahead. He's now rated 1921, which places him in the 99.5% percentile on Chess.com. And he took a 3 month break at one point. He's also taken a break since May. So, really, he accomplished this in only a few months of play time. Here's his profile on Chess.com:

BIG_TONKA_T Blitz Chess Stats and Rating

www.chess.com

He's even defeated someone ranked 2139. He's completly obliterated what people thought was possible with chess progression.

Because he's a professional streamer, he has time on his hands, and he's played 8700 games, which definitely helps (he even once binged for 24 hours straight playing games), but still, there are many people on that site with that many games who haven't come close to his rating. It's impressive as hell.

You might be the oldest Tyler1 fan, I found him insufferable even back in middle school.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

So, are people’s names now just screen names? This guy is known simply as Tyler1?

 

[HOLA]

You might be the oldest Tyler1 fan, I found him insufferable even back in middle school.

I've never actually watched a video of him speaking. I've heard he's prone to fits of rage while playing video games lol. I've just followed his meteoric rise on r/chess on Reddit.

People kept saying he'd plateau at 1300, then 1400, then 1500, and the dude just blasted through.

 

[HOLA]

So, are people’s names now just screen names? This guy is known simply as Tyler1?

I literally have no idea what his actual name is lol. He's always called Tyler1:

 

[no fat chicks]

It's amazing.

 

[Brom Bones]

Didn't know who this guy was. Looked him up and he looks like a bigger version of Mini Me.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Yeah, she claims she invented it, but other people claim she just helped popularize it.

Her mom, who is an actual grandmaster, doesn't seem too impressed by it, either.

It’s been used in the past but she’s the only person to believe in it, or care about it, enough to claim it as her own.

You’d be hard pressed to find any decent player that thinks it has much value. I recall Hikaru destroying it in typical Hikaru fashion.

 

[Red Beard]

The Cow opening is very rudimentary, but those knights cover a lot of area and the bishops prevent flank attacks. His progression is pretty impressive, but the goal of the Cow is to take your opponent out of the book. Imagine though, how bad that will end up once he gets to a point that his opponent knows the whole book. It will work well against the caliber he is playing as we don't study off book nearly enough. That opening has a lot of flaws in terms of development, so he will get exposed soon enough. I was playing three openings religiously (KIA, Caro, Italian) and focused exclusively on the lines associated with them. I got all the way up to a 1604 with those, but ran into some issues as I progressed a little further. The gap between the really good and really great is HUGE! He is quite the personality though and if he learns theory behind that opening and develops a few other options that he can pivot towards (like how the Italian and KIA have alternative lines) he will be a force. Some FMs use three openings and are sound enough in the theories that they are hard to defeat.

 

[Natural Order]

Thinking is for pussies!

 

[HOLA]

This person is also incredible:

Faustino Oro | Top Chess Players

Faustino Oro is an Argentinian chess prodigy who has been nicknamed "The Messi of Chess." Learn more about his chess achievements!

www.chess.com

FaustinoOro Blitz Chess Stats and Rating

www.chess.com

On Chess.com had a rating of 278 in Blitz in 2020. Was 2200 1 year later. Now it's 3102, or 20th in the world.

He already became an FM and is close to getting his IM title. He's 10 years old!