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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|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.