- Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great during Persian Empire at Susa, ca 510 BC, excavated by Roland de Mecquenem, 1911, Current location: Louvre, Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 12a, Photo by Jastrow in 2005, Sphinx from Wikipedia↩︎
Sfinks,
a chess program written by William Fink. It was one of the early commercial chess programs for IBM PC's 1 , written in Assembly for 8-bit Z80- and 16-bit 8086 microprocessors subsequently, and participated at the MCC 1980, the CPWTIPC 1981, the ACM 1982 and the WCCC 1983 with the 8-bit version running on an TRS-80 microcomputer. Sfinks was a modern full-width alpha-beta searcher with iterative deepening and small refutation tables with very moderate memory requirements to store two additional moves of a principal variation for each root-move 2.
Despite embedding its authors name, Sfinks is the Polish spelling for Sphinx, the mythological creature of Ancient Egypt and Achaemenid Empire that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head.
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Publications
- William Fink (1981). Sfinks riddles Sargon II. Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 104 » Sargon
- William Fink (1982). An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1
External Links
- Sfinks' ICGA Tournaments
- Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear by Carey, hosted by the Internet Archive 3
- SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink
References
SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink↩︎
William Fink (1982). An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1↩︎
Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC by Dann Corbit, CCC, July 11, 2015↩︎