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'''SMIRF''',<br/>
[[Various Classifications#:Category:Acronym|acronym]] for "Strategiespielprogramm Mit Intelligent Rückkoppelnden Funktionen" (German for ''Strategic Game Program With Intelligent Recursing Facilities''), a chess program by [[Reinhard Scharnagl]] with an own [[GUI]] running under [[Windows]].
Beside orthodox chess, SMIRF focused on [[Chess#Variants|chess variants]] on 8x8 and 10x8 [[Chessboard|boards]], in particular [[Chess960]], [[Gothic Chess]], [[Capablanca Chess]] and Scharnagl's own invention, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_random_chess Capablanca random chess].
A technique dubbed ''adaptive recursive feed-back'' implements a kind of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory closed loop control] to shape the [[Search Tree|tree]]. SMIRF was distributed as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware shareware] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=479262 SMIRF licencing] by Robert Hollay, [[CCC]], January 13, 2006</ref> and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donationware donationware].
