> I usually don't even respond to such drivel. No offense, but you haven't the faintest idea about what you're saying.

This part of the post wasn't needed, and looks unprofessional. Attack the argument, not the person.

I know that I'm off-topic here, but I couldn't let this slide, I want to be on a peaceful forum, so I get annoyed when such things get posted, even if they're not directed at me.

I never claimed that the QID is a forced white win--I instead claimed that the ...Ba6 variation might be a forced white win.  I am quite serious in saying that I would feel more comfortable playing the King's Gambit with white than the ...Ba6 QID with black in centaur play.  The patterns that I have seen have been quite clear: someone finds a line in the opening that looks like it gives black chances, usually in a human tournament, and black might even win due to the far larger instance of mistakes that happens at the 2700 level, then people take it up for a little while, white starts to win most of the games, and then I see it in the engine room with white consistently winning, look at the lines myself, and find nothing apparently better for black.  Obviously I'm not going to provide evidence, or else I'd be giving away much of my analysis; you can, of course, believe whatever you like (and so much the better for me! :-) ).  I certainly haven't found that all lines are forced wins, but in all of the lines I've studied as far as I can recall, black is left struggling for a draw.  I would never dream of playing 4...Ba6 in centaur play, and that is a "red" line in my opening book; for that matter, I stay out of the QID altogether, though I imagine that black has plenty of chances with 4...Bb7 (which is a green line), though these lines tend to be drawish.  The question is what you consider a "normal" opening.  Certain variations of the Poisoned Pawn Sicilian were thought to be "normal" openings, with good, fighting play for both sides, but many of us have found that unless black plays extremely precisely, white has a won game--and after a certain point, if black hasn't played certain critical moves that aren't necessarily obvious, white automatically has a won game.  Now black tends to avoid those lines by playing ...g5.  Ironically, I feel quite comfortable playing on both sides of the QID over-the-board, and I usually play the ...Ba6 variation with black.  However, when we're playing at about 2000 level, the fact that the variations might be lost doesn't bother me one bit, and as a human, I feel more comfortable playing this with black than the King's Gambit with white.