William Fink

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William A. Fink, an American early microcomputer chess programmer and author of the commercial chess program Sfinks, written in Z80-assembly for a TRS-80 microcomputer, later ported to 8086 for the IBM PC.

=Enhancement= In his 1982 ICCA Newsletter article An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure, William Fink describes the implementation of a small refutation table inside his iterative alpha-beta framework - to keep two moves of the variation for each root move, and to search those moves first accordingly during the next iteration.

=Selected 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=
 * William Fink's ICGA Tournaments
 * SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink

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