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|| [[image:175px-Sphinx_Darius_Louvre.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphinx_Darius_Louvre.jpg"]] ||~   || **Sfinks**,
a chess program written by [[William Fink]]. It was one of the early commercial chess programs for [[IBM PC|IBM PC's]] <ref>[[http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/|SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink]]</ref> , written in [[Assembly]] for 8-bit [[Z80]]- and 16-bit [[8086]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor|microprocessors]] subsequently, and participated at the [[MCC 1980]], the [[ACM 1982]] and the [[WCCC 1983]] with the 8-bit version running on an [[TRS-80]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer|microcomputer]]. Sfinks was a modern full-width [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta]] searcher with [[Iterative Deepening|iterative deepening]] and small [[Refutation Table|refutation tables]] with very moderate memory requirements to store two additional [[Moves|moves]] of a [[Principal variation|principal variation]] for each [[Root|root]]-move <ref>[[William Fink]] (**1982**). //An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure//. [[ICGA Journal#5_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1]]</ref>. 

Despite embedding its authors name, [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfinks|Sfinks]] is the Polish spelling for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx|Sphinx]], the mythological creature of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt|Ancient Egypt]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire|Achaemenid Empire]] that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head. ||
|| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx|Sphinx]] <ref>[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sphinx_Darius_Louvre.jpg|Winged sphinx]] from the palace of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great|Darius the Great]] during [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire|Persian Empire]] at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa|Susa]], ca 510 BC, excavated by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_de_Mecquenem_%28archaeologist%29|Roland de Mecquenem]], 1911, Current location: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre|Louvre]], Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 12a, Photo by [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jastrow|Jastrow]]  in 2005, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx|Sphinx from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=See also=
* [[Anubis]]
* [[CHEOPS]]
* [[CXG Sphinx]]
* [[Various Classifications#Mythology|Mythology]]

=Publications=
* [[William Fink]] (**1981**). //Sfinks riddles Sargon II//. [[Personal Computing#5_3|Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3]], pp. 104  » [[Sargon]]
* [[William Fink]] (**1982**). //An Enhancement to the Iterative, Alpha-Beta, Minimax Search Procedure//. [[ICGA Journal#5_1|ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1]]

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=418|Sfinks' ICGA Tournaments]]
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20071221115817/http://classicchess.googlepages.com/Chess.htm|Classic Computer Chess - ... The programs of yesteryear]] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], hosted by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive|Internet Archive]] <ref>[[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56938&start=2|Re: Old programs CHAOS and USC]] by [[Dann Corbit]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2015</ref>
* [[http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/|SFINKS PC: Microcomputer Chess Game written by William Fink]]
> [[image:sfinks-pc-1.jpg width="713" height="942" link="http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/sfinks-pc/"]]
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