Interesting claim by the author (from the abstract of the referenced study): The trained evaluation function performs comparably to the evaluation functions of

Interesting claim by the author (from the abstract of the referenced study): The trained evaluation function performs comparably to the evaluation functions of state-of-the-art chess engines - all of which containing thousands of lines of carefully hand-crafted pattern recognizers, tuned over many years by both computer chess experts and human chess masters. Giraffe is the most successful attempt thus far at using end-to-end machine learning to play chess.