What can WE LEARN From Tyler1's CHESS Climb

Many of us have been pretty surprised to see how fast Tyler1 was able to increase his chess Rating. In this video, I will share some reasons and takeaways from his astronomical improvement.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:10 - Who Is Tyler1
02:13 - Why was he successful
03:45 - What can we learn from Tyler1

[chessyoshi]

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.

[BoonekampGx]

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.

[jefftaylor]

He grinds out 40 games a day playing the same opening.

That’s literally one of the long established formulas for improving.

[conormil]

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

[GodUsoppabc]

I think his greatest positive for him his ability to not tilt after playing many games for several hours straight

[NoisqueVoaProduction]

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)

[solventob]

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.

[DayumTreeStump]

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.

[basedchessmoves]

The Cow opening is not that bad If your opponents don't punish it within the first 10 moves. Still works at 2000+ level

[TheStrongestGoonerOfToday]

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.

[bitcube]

One day, "Big Tonka T" will be written next to Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking

[maxpowers]

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.

[al]

Thanks for this video, completely agree with your takeaways. The tyler1 chess arc inspired me to take up chess seriously for the first time after being intimidated by chess my whole life. Played a few hundred games and almost 1000 puzzles already in a couple weeks with just 1-2 openings and it feels very motivating knowing its possible without starting when youre young or learning endless theory

[AlexPerazaTV]

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.

[itspm]

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

[BenjaIofin]

you are a king you give no chess advice but life advice because the thinks that you mentioned are crucial for life thank you man keep with the chess content

[FireboltJB]

Hey man, I been studying tactics for 4 hours a day and it is decided by that 1 tactic that you spot during the game. I used to rely on my positional understanding more than tactics. I didn't even look for tactics and I would win most games but now I'm switching to e4 just to play tactics. I love them. I spent 35 hours studying them. I am know where near Tyler1's accomplishment but I'll get there eventually. It just takes time. I am working with two puzzle books right now and I'm seeing major improvement. 1700 puzzles to build pattern recognition with. It might take 500 hours for me but it's gonna be worth it.

[MachinesOfDoom]

Bro when you said how he was determined to not go through tutorial hell was so GOATED, got me hyped. Subbed!

[Nurrad]

Good thoughts, thank you, and I hope your channel grows fast ...
waiting for more content

[RoryODonnellIsSoAwesome]

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.