Just thought I'd ask an absurd question:

When Rybka was trumpeting its superiority on its own website and forum about how it was in the lead on the CCRL, CEGT, and SSDF websites a year ago, was that wrong, since by and large these sites test different engines on the same hardware?

I appreciate ...

From a purely logical standpoint, how can you make an absolute statement about something that you cannot possibly be absolute about? The problem with the whole program X is a clone of Y or that X used cloned code in the design is so complex that the best anyone can do without access to the source ...