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Prodigy,

a chess program written in 1981 by two Ph.D. students from the University of Waterloo, Jonathan Schaeffer and J. Howard Johnson. Johnson wrote the control part of the program, Schaeffer put in the chess knowledge. Prodigy was written in C to ran on a VAX or Honeywell 6600. The code size was 100Kb, data size 10Kb, and it searched 50 Nodes per second [1]. Prodigy entered the ACM 1981 finishing last, and never played again. In 1982 Schaeffer started his new program called Phoenix, which rose from the ashes of Prodigy.

See also#

• Planner
• Phoenix

External Links#

• Prodigy from Wikipedia
• Chess prodigy from Wikipedia
• Child prodigy from Wikipedia
• The Prodigy (band) from Wikipedia

References#

1. ↑ The Twelfth ACM’s North American Computer Chess Championship, pdf from The Computer History Museum
2. ↑ Jonathan Schaeffer (1997, 2009). One Jump Ahead. 1. This Was Going to Be Easy, pp. 8
3. ↑ Chafitz Destiny Prodigy Electronic Chess Computer from The Spacious Mind

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