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'''Prodigy''',<br/>
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 [[Knowledge|chess knowledge]]. Prodigy was written in [[C]] to ran on a [[VAX]] or [[Honeywell 6000|Honeywell 6600]]. The code size was 100Kb, data size 10Kb, and it searched 50 [[Nodes per second]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737 The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1981_ACM_NACCC/1981_ACM_NACCC.sm.062303017.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. 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.
=Quotes=
[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] in ''[http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-0-387-76575-4 One Jump Ahead]'' <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1997, 2009'''). ''[http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-0-387-76575-4 One Jump Ahead]''. 1. This Was Going to Be Easy, pp. 8</ref>:
If I was going to create a world champion chess program I would need help. I advertised around the Department of Computer Science and was fortunate to find Howard Johnson, a fellow Ph.D. student, who was as enthusiastic about computer chess as I was. The summer of 1981 was spent writing a new program that we called Prodigy. Howard wrote the control part of the program, and I put in the chess knowledge. We entered it at in the 1981 North American Computer Chess Championship. Against the best programs in the world, we fared poorly. The program exhibited moments of brilliance, only to come crashed down in every contest. We lost every game and finished dead last. I was bitterly disappointed. My enthusiasm for computer chess disappeared abruptly on the last day of the tournament, and Prodigy never played again. ||
Even if I wanted to, I couldn't use the name Prodigy again. Six months after the North American Championship, I was startled to see an advertisement for a chess computer named Prodigy. I wrote to the manufacturer asserting my prior claim to the name. They wrote back stating that they had done a trademark search on the name and found no matches. Therefore they would appreciate it if I would stop using their name. They left no doubt about the legal implications of their request <ref>[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/destiny_prodigy.html Chafitz Destiny Prodigy Electronic Chess Computer] from [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Planner]]
* [[Phoenix]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy Prodigy from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy Chess prodigy from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy Child prodigy from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prodigy The Prodigy (band) from Wikipedia]
=References=
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'''Prodigy''',<br/>
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 [[Knowledge|chess knowledge]]. Prodigy was written in [[C]] to ran on a [[VAX]] or [[Honeywell 6000|Honeywell 6600]]. The code size was 100Kb, data size 10Kb, and it searched 50 [[Nodes per second]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737 The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3.1981_ACM_NACCC/1981_ACM_NACCC.sm.062303017.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>. 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.
=Quotes=
[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] in ''[http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-0-387-76575-4 One Jump Ahead]'' <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1997, 2009'''). ''[http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-0-387-76575-4 One Jump Ahead]''. 1. This Was Going to Be Easy, pp. 8</ref>:
If I was going to create a world champion chess program I would need help. I advertised around the Department of Computer Science and was fortunate to find Howard Johnson, a fellow Ph.D. student, who was as enthusiastic about computer chess as I was. The summer of 1981 was spent writing a new program that we called Prodigy. Howard wrote the control part of the program, and I put in the chess knowledge. We entered it at in the 1981 North American Computer Chess Championship. Against the best programs in the world, we fared poorly. The program exhibited moments of brilliance, only to come crashed down in every contest. We lost every game and finished dead last. I was bitterly disappointed. My enthusiasm for computer chess disappeared abruptly on the last day of the tournament, and Prodigy never played again. ||
Even if I wanted to, I couldn't use the name Prodigy again. Six months after the North American Championship, I was startled to see an advertisement for a chess computer named Prodigy. I wrote to the manufacturer asserting my prior claim to the name. They wrote back stating that they had done a trademark search on the name and found no matches. Therefore they would appreciate it if I would stop using their name. They left no doubt about the legal implications of their request <ref>[http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/destiny_prodigy.html Chafitz Destiny Prodigy Electronic Chess Computer] from [[The Spacious Mind]]</ref>.
=See also=
* [[Planner]]
* [[Phoenix]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy Prodigy from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_prodigy Chess prodigy from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_prodigy Child prodigy from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prodigy The Prodigy (band) from Wikipedia]
=References=
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