William Fink

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William A. Fink,
an American early microcomputer chess programmer and author of the commercial chess program Sfinks [1], 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 [2], 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

External Links

References

  1. Sfinks' ICGA Tournaments
  2. William Fink (1982). An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1

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