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Subject: Re: Fruit distributors correct this lie or will never be trusted (n.t.)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:41:27 01/09/06

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On January 09, 2006 at 15:33:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 09, 2006 at 15:29:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 09, 2006 at 15:14:29, Gabor Szots wrote:
>>
>>>On January 09, 2006 at 14:45:01, Austin A. Biberink wrote:
>>>
>>>When Rybka was first announced the author said "its strength is 90-150 Elo above
>>>Shredder". The rating lists say otherwise, but you never demanded to correct
>>>that lie.
>>
>>
>>The rating list do not say different things
>>
>>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/cegtrating4040all.html
>>
>>2 Rybka 1.0 Beta 64-bit 2857
>>13 Shredder 9 2756
>>
>>You can see 101 elo difference.
>>90<101<150
>
>I guess that .001% of the PCs have 64 bit Windows.  So that measurement is
>probably not too useful for them.

I agree but the claim that rybka is 90-150 elo stronger was not a lie because it
was not claimed specifically about the 32 bit version and people who downloaded
rybka or bought it could see that there is 64 bit version even if they could not
use it.

Uri



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