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SMIRF, 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 on 8x8 and 10x8 boards, in particular Chess960, Gothic Chess, Capablanca Chess and Scharnagl's own invention, Capablanca random chess. A technique dubbed adaptive recursive feed-back implements a kind of closed loop control to shape the tree. SMIRF was distributed as shareware and donationware.

=Screenshot= SMIRF GUI with 10x8 Board

=Forum Posts=

2004

 * Will Smirf's Source be published? by Reinhard Scharnagl, Winboard Forum, October 08, 2004
 * Re:On SMIRF by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, December 30, 2004

2005 ...

 * Re: SMIRF facing Zugzwang by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, June 05, 2005
 * New Smirf Beta BC-062 by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, June 12, 2005
 * New SMIRF beta free including October by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, September 30, 2005
 * SMIRF licencing by Robert Hollay, CCC, January 13, 2006
 * New SMIRF Beta Version 1.49 by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, February 07, 2006
 * "SMIRF".......Snifff.......Coff coff by fernando, CCC, April 29, 2007
 * New Smirf Engine MS-175e by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, November 09, 2008
 * SMIRF slightly modified by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, May 10, 2009
 * New SMIRF version MS-175w for project supporters by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, December 30, 2009

2010 ...

 * SMIRF donation version downloadable again by Octopus, OpenChess Forum, October 30, 2011
 * SMIRF engine project terminated by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, January 22, 2012
 * Smirf 8x8/10x8 on USB Stick by Octopus, OpenChess Forum, March 16, 2012
 * Non-Hi-End SMIRF 8x8 and 10x8 GUI + Engine 178e by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, June 21, 2013
 * Little progress on SMIRF's successor program by Reinhard Scharnagl, CCC, September 28, 2014
 * Looking for R. Scharnagl FEN editor by Roland Chastain, CCC, May 29, 2019

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * SMIRF hosted by the Wayback Machine
 * SMIRF Chess Program - Unofficial Web site - Fischer Random Chess, Capablanca Chess
 * Smirf-Donate collected by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
 * Smirfoglot by Harm Geert Muller

Misc
=References= Up one level
 * smirf by Fenn Lipkowitz