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]. || toc =See also=
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=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

=External Links=

Chess Program

 * [|SMIRF from Wikipedia]
 * [|SMIRF] (German)

Misc
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 * [|Small Multi-Purpose Research Facility (SMiRF)] | [|NASA]
 * [|smirf] by [|Ben Lipkowitz]
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