RamJet 0.14 - UCI chess engine by Edoardo Manino (Italy)

So you decided to download my engine. Congratulations! Before you go and play around with it, here is some information you may find useful.

This engine is my first attempt at using some proper Machine Learning techniques on chess. Currently, the evaluation function is a feedforward neural network with sigmoid units. Now, before you get too excited, bear in mind that I am using a single hidden layer with only 3 (three) neurons. Not much, but the results are promising, so stay tuned for future releases.

Due to the experimental nature of this project, the playing strength of this engine is probably on par with the previous version. However, I have found that it has a much more balanced style, which makes it less frustrating to watch. Finally, most of the training has been on Chess 960 (aka Fisher Random Chess) which allows for a wider variety of positions. Hence, I expect it to be stronger at dealing with unusual openings.

Have fun!
