Apparently Tate was in the chess world as a kid, due to his famous chess playing dad, and was very good.

Someone who knew him back then said that Tate was a "genius", and this was someone who is very left wing and hates everything he stands for today.

I still think his dad's mid-2010s death sent him off the rails, and that produced the obnoxious, scammy alpha caricature we see today.

Some people take the early death of their parents tougher than you'd expect, and it can change or ruin them for life.