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[[FILE:Sphinx Darius Louvre.jpg|border|right|thumb|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx Sphinx] <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphinx_Darius_Louvre.jpg Winged sphinx] from the palace of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great Darius the Great] during [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire Persian Empire] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa Susa], ca 510 BC, excavated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_de_Mecquenem_%28archaeologist%29 Roland de Mecquenem], 1911, Current location: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre Louvre], Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 12a, Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jastrow Jastrow] in 2005, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx Sphinx from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Sfinks''',<br/>
a chess program written by [[William Fink]]. It was one of the early commercial chess programs for [[IBM PC|IBM PC's]] <ref>[http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/ SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink]</ref> , written in [[Assembly]] for 8-bit [[Z80]]- and 16-bit [[8086]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor microprocessors] subsequently, and participated at the [[MCC 1980]], the [[ACM 1982]] and the [[WCCC 1983]] with the 8-bit version running on an [[TRS-80]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer microcomputer]. Sfinks was a modern full-width [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] searcher with [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] and small [[Refutation Table|refutation tables]] with very moderate memory requirements to store two additional [[Moves|moves]] of a [[Principal variation|principal variation]] for each [[Root|root]]-move <ref>[[William Fink]] ('''1982'''). ''An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure''. [[ICGA Journal#5_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1]]</ref>.
Despite embedding its authors name, [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfinks Sfinks] is the Polish spelling for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx Sphinx], the mythological creature of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire Achaemenid Empire] that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head.
=See also=
* [[Anubis]]
* [[CHEOPS]]
* [[CXG Sphinx]]
* [[Various Classifications#Mythology|Mythology]]
=Publications=
* [[William Fink]] ('''1981'''). ''Sfinks riddles Sargon II''. [[Personal Computing#5_3|Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3]], pp. 104 » [[Sargon]]
* [[William Fink]] ('''1982'''). ''An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure''. [[ICGA Journal#5_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=418 Sfinks' ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221115817/http://classicchess.googlepages.com/Chess.htm Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56938&start=2 Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2015</ref>
* [http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/ SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink]
: [[FILE:sfinks-pc-1.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/]]
=References=
<references />
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[[Category:Mythology]]
[[FILE:Sphinx Darius Louvre.jpg|border|right|thumb|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx Sphinx] <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphinx_Darius_Louvre.jpg Winged sphinx] from the palace of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great Darius the Great] during [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire Persian Empire] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa Susa], ca 510 BC, excavated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_de_Mecquenem_%28archaeologist%29 Roland de Mecquenem], 1911, Current location: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre Louvre], Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 12a, Photo by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jastrow Jastrow] in 2005, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx Sphinx from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Sfinks''',<br/>
a chess program written by [[William Fink]]. It was one of the early commercial chess programs for [[IBM PC|IBM PC's]] <ref>[http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/ SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink]</ref> , written in [[Assembly]] for 8-bit [[Z80]]- and 16-bit [[8086]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor microprocessors] subsequently, and participated at the [[MCC 1980]], the [[ACM 1982]] and the [[WCCC 1983]] with the 8-bit version running on an [[TRS-80]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer microcomputer]. Sfinks was a modern full-width [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] searcher with [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] and small [[Refutation Table|refutation tables]] with very moderate memory requirements to store two additional [[Moves|moves]] of a [[Principal variation|principal variation]] for each [[Root|root]]-move <ref>[[William Fink]] ('''1982'''). ''An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure''. [[ICGA Journal#5_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1]]</ref>.
Despite embedding its authors name, [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfinks Sfinks] is the Polish spelling for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx Sphinx], the mythological creature of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire Achaemenid Empire] that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head.
=See also=
* [[Anubis]]
* [[CHEOPS]]
* [[CXG Sphinx]]
* [[Various Classifications#Mythology|Mythology]]
=Publications=
* [[William Fink]] ('''1981'''). ''Sfinks riddles Sargon II''. [[Personal Computing#5_3|Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3]], pp. 104 » [[Sargon]]
* [[William Fink]] ('''1982'''). ''An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure''. [[ICGA Journal#5_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=418 Sfinks' ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071221115817/http://classicchess.googlepages.com/Chess.htm Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], hosted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56938&start=2 Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2015</ref>
* [http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/ SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink]
: [[FILE:sfinks-pc-1.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/]]
=References=
<references />
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