He's a mug who thinks anyone better than him must be cheating

I'm here for a quick one... If youre still about.

His ego can't handle it.

He has played around 10,000 games over six years and has a peak rating of 1234.

He should be well into advance level by now, which is roughly 1800+

Yet he's miles from it, instead if listening to me telling him how to get better, he just theatrically throws his arms in the air and keeps yelling 'cheat', it's embarrassing.

Everything I know is from YouTube, I've never read or seen a chess book before, never played over the board and never had any kind of coach.

Every time I can across an opening I didn't know how to deal with, I simply went to Youtube and searched for 'trap again so and so opening', so at least you have a plan, and if it doesn't work, then you just play chess.

He seems to play the Italian game as white every game, it's the most common opening, so his opponents are well versed in playing against it.

Play something different, learn the Ponziani for example, in Rapid I won 43 games and lost 9 (excluding 3 banned players), doesn't work as well in Blitz, but then again they started my Blitz rating at 2000, after I reached 2000 Rapid, but for Rapid, it seems to work well.

Just go to Youtube and look it up, it's an easy to remember opening, tricky and trappy.

I learned other openings such as how to play against the Vienna game from chessvibes, how to play against the King's Gambit from RemoteChessacademy, Ponziani and Stafford Gambit from Eric Rosen, Alapic Sicilian from Jonathan Schrantz etc etc.

Instead of complaining about how other people are better than you when really it's because they actually put in the hard work, you need to do the same. But you seem to fat and lazy to bother, you'll probably still be here in 5 years calling me a cheat whilst stuck at 1100 FFS.

Kind Regards.

You should have won.

I’ve never played any other opening either!