Andrew Tate a Chess Champion?

His house looks like it's just a warehouse on an industrial estate like somewhere you would go to get some waste pipe for your kitchen sink.

That’s the lesson you think he should learn? How about not forcing women to make pornography?

Have you ever seen a bad actor in a movie? So bad that simply by standing a scene they break it because they look out of place?

That's how Tate looks to me... like a really bad actor. I don't know what it is about him... I even looked at a few kickboxing videos, where they're interviewing him before or after a fight, and he  just comes off as goofy.

I'd be interested in hearing an acting coach break down why he comes across like that.

I'm sure he has a lot of lessons to learn, apparently ...

I don't use social media, which is what I understand he's famous from - the first time I ever saw his name was on these chess forums. Most I've seen of him is two YouTube videos of him playing mediocre chess.

I had to Google "Who is Andrew Tate" and "Andrew Tate Greta" just to understand what this whole thread is about ...

Andrew Tate looks like a Walmart version of Pitbull

Yeah, some people become fairly rich and famous for saying dumb and provocative things out loud... hard to imagine a more embarrassing legacy.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, it's such a weird vibe, not what I expected from a kickboxing champion.

This is going to sound so rude but... watching an interview of Tate just now... reminds me of Hikaru from a few years ago

It's sort of like... watching your (much) younger brother, who has low self esteem, trying to act cool. That's the vibe.

Hahahaha... I think getting choked out by Eric simmered Hikaru down a bit. 

That was funny, but nah. That'd calm down a teenager, but Hikaru was like, 30 years old when he got choked out lol. His prickishness was baked in at that point.

I think now that he's rich and has lots of fans (even if they're dumb kids) he's calmed down.

I highly doubt he’s actually 1800. There was a game where he checkmated his opponent, but they played on for a few moves because neither one realized the game was over

Since this thread is no longer about his chess capabilities: 
Anybody who takes Tate seriously is either an incredibly impressionable brainwashable teenager or someone who's actually dumb. 
Hes 100% a character. His whole strat is overblowing his ridiculous opinions to a comically stupid degree to drum up controversy then he says some stupid, obvious, astrology level cookie cutter shet and boom, then he hooks a couple insecure boys who think hes a “misunderstood sigma male” or whatever buzzwords these manosphere influencers are using these days, all because he said we should love and protect children in the middle of a twenty minute sexist rant being dumped on an incredibly uncomfortable woman interviewer. Its classic shock-and-awe marketing. shock people and then switcharoo them with something that’ll awe them and hopefully youll get more eyes and followers than youll lose by doing the shocking stuff. Nothing really too special about Tate, hes like a WWE villain, comically arrogant and terrible, but still just a storyline hes trying to sell. If people really hate him, talking about how much they hate him is kinda the whole point of his scam and helping him.
 
 

Also because he has a cult type fanbase, people will always think all types of accusations (Even if criminal) Are just false. even if its human trafficking, r*pe, domestic abuse, money laundering, his cult fanbase will always think its just haters trying to accuse him. what they don't understand is the amount of times he has actually admitted to many of these crimes because some people cannot contain themselves and love to brag, even if it will negatively affect their reputation or their life xd

he's 1600. 

Believe me its a rabbithole you dont want to fall into. Every year some or the other person goes viral by saying provokative controversial shet and one side will hate him and the other side will love him. Its basically that

When I first saw a video with him, with his cigar and spitting out nonsense in this weird, over-confident way, I thought it was some kind of Sacha Baron Cohen character, like Ali G. But then, when you look at the comments to his videos, it appears that some kids are genuinely impressed by that.

Anyway, since this is a chess site: I'm sure he's better than the vast majority of 'celebrities', and his father was a legend.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll steer clear of that. I tumble into enough rabbit holes as it is.

I'm pretty awful at chess myself, my goal was just to defeat my father in chess, and after I achieved that goal I kind of never played chess again. So I'm probably not the best person to tell if he's good at chess or not, but 1600 isn't exactly "genius", better than most players i guess? But definitely not a grandmaster 
Ironically, the guy gives "life changing motivational" Advices telling people not to take drugs, (because I've seen videos which were like "ANDREW TATE SAVED MY LIFE", and the guy goes on to say andrew tate asked him to stop taking drugs and hit the gym....), and the guy smokes a cigar in every video? Do they not know nicotine is also a drug?
The reason people believe him so much is probably because of the way he conveys his thoughts I think. I mean he's a full on politician basically, saying things with heavy emphasis on words that make you sound "intelligent". All about public speaking I guess?