Thanks a lot for your interest and suggestions. Splitting the task
goes in my TODO (tothink) list. SVM stands for support vector
machine? I'll have to look it up. Reading recommendations are
welcomed :)

Meanwhile I pushed some changes that speedup training (hopefully even
more so on more cores), so ...

Despite my interest in AI, I'm not much competent in this area either
for the moment. It was done from curiosity, it seemed to me that this
was not a tried approach. In recent days I saw some discussions in
TalkChess (btw I'm still waiting for confirmation of my registration
there) and understood ...

Hello,
I'd like to present you a couple of meta-engines that use
backpropagation neural networks for evaluation. This is a slightly
refined result of an introductory neural networks course assignment
that I did 2 yeas ago (this is why the first target was Grapefruit).
I slightly modified Grapefruit ...