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Subject: Re: Why does Rybka Mutiliate Hiarcs?

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 19:01:58 12/30/05

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On December 30, 2005 at 20:29:18, Roger D Davis wrote:

>I haven't made an official tally, but it seems that in every report I
>see...Rybka mutiliates the latest Hiarcs, even more than other engines at the
>same level as Hiarcs.
>
>Yet, Hiarcs wasn't available to be tuned against...the latest version hadn't
>been released yet...
>
>How can Rybka be so effective against an engine it was never tuned against?
>
>Roger

Because it *is* effective. Because it uses techniques, methods, or whatever,
that, heretofore, have not been used in such combination or as effectively,
or which are altogether new inventions of IM designer.

Stuart



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