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Black = original poster resigns after 6 moves!?

White = original poster plays the opening badly and agrees to a draw in 6 moves!?
@tpr I understand your point but please reword them as they seem aggressive like
@Catastrov If you are weak in the middlegame, you can't be strong in the opening. You can only memorize openings discovered by others, not build them, nor understand them as a 2000.

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@janosopeligroso thank you would you want to join the trap study?

I mostly plathe the Italian so I need to think off a great attack for the piano. (Learning lines is fun and easy for me (if I enjoy something I learn it so so much easier))
Piano is complete garbage play the pianissimo instead.
Do you want to giveaway some equality as white as early as move 8 ?
2.Nf3 requires too much theory. I switched to Vienna recently.

And why do you resign on move 6 ?
@howchessYT We're not intending to insult you, we're just putting your strength into a realistic sense. As with many people, you seem to just simply have a misunderstanding of what opening strength is in the first place. While theory is certainly part of the opening, it only forms a fraction of opening play, and I'd argue that it's a smaller fraction, too. This is because, even though you may know some theory, you may not particularly understand the opening at a 2000 level as you're trying to claim. Opening expertise is mostly characterized by your skill within the middlegame positions. If you're an expert on, say, the accelerated dragon, this would not only mean knowing the theory of the accelerated dragon, but also knowing all of the general ideas for both sides, thematic moves and tactics, and having an excellent intuitive feel for where to put your pieces within the resulting positions. This is what was meant by an earlier post that claimed that you cannot be good in the opening while being weak in the middlegame: if you truly know your openings deeply, you should be able to play the resulting middlegames with great skill as well. This "feel" for the opening generally results not from knowing the theory of the opening, but on going over a large amount of games within it, seeing how masters have handled the positions in hundreds(if not thousands) of games, and seeing what setups worked for them, and what setups failed. Your own experience within your openings greatly improves your knowledge as well, as you'll never make the same mistakes twice. When you play hundreds of games with your opening, analyze them, see what you're doing wrong, and look to correct it in the future, you'll be on your way to opening mastery. This is much more difficult and time-consuming than "I know a lot of theory" or "I found a neat line in this variation." Furthermore, strong players are going to be able to play the opening well even when they are out of book(which will happen even to the best of us). For example, your opponent might whip out 1.Nc3 or 1.b3. These are perfectly sound openings with no direct refutation, but if you're good in the opening, you should be able to handle them well, and equalize(or get an edge, even) without too much work, even though nobody actually has time to prepare lines specifically for the Veresov. I'd recommend you check out TonyRo's channel if you want a good idea of what an openings expert looks like. Of course, the guy knows tons of theory, organizes the theory well, prepares lines thoroughly, and also know the ideas of the lines very well. That may not be particularly how a "2000 strength opening player" would look like per se, as I'm sure his opening knowledge surpasses even that of many masters, but it might give you a better idea of what you're talking about before you greatly overestimate your strength in this part of the game. Again, I don't mean to offend you, I just want to improve your objectivity here. Good luck with your chess!

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