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Sfinks, a chess program written by William Fink. It was one of the early commercial chess programs for IBM PC's, 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.

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.

=See also=
 * Anubis
 * CHEOPS
 * CXG Sphinx

=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
 * SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink
 * [[FILE:sfinks-pc-1.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=https://archive.org/details/1982-sfinks-pc]]

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