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You said this in response to someone saying the Berlin was rich.
I quoted the exact sentence to which I replied and my exact reply to it. It can't get any more clear than that.
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When there are GMs who will say it isn't. Zviad Izoria (GM) pans the opening for being boring. IM Marc Esserman also pans it for the same reason. Do you know better than them?
Did you consider the possibility that I do? I am a very strong amateur, if that wasn't obvious already. Not sure why that matters though. Consider the possibility that they don't like the opening, because it's good and they don't know what to do against it.
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They stream and I have heard other GMs utter the same thing over streams. A lot of GMs play it for quick draws like Hikaru was doijng in the candidates, not because it's rich.
Since you like to name drop and quote the top players, I am sure you are interested to hear that Aronian once said he plays the Berlin when he feels inspired and just wants a game.
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If chess was drawish Alireza wouldn't have gotten better than 2600s. There would be a cap. Chess is only drawish at the very top where skill differences aren't that big, and even then it's not really true considering what Nepo did at the candidates. Humans aren't Leela, AlphaZero, or Stockfish. Hence why you still get decisive games even in the WCC. You can go through databases for top players in the past thirty years and there might be some tendencies towards draws, there's also more Ws in favor of one player over another. You can do it with Nepo and Carlsen. You can do it with Anand and Kramnick and so forth. And if you look at the overwhelming majority of players below lets say 2000 FIDE rating, you are gonna see way more decisive games than draws. Quit trying to infer what engines say onto chess when it's still humans playing it.
You seem to purposefully misunderstand what "chess is drawish" means. I have no more time for this nonsense, but all the best for you!