Complex Decision Making With Neural Networks: Learning Chess Functional Description

Although mainly a research endeavor, the end goal of this project is to produce a system based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) which will play chess (as the dark side only) effectively against a human opponent. The dark side is chosen simply because it prevents the system from having to make the first move. To meet the objective, research will be centered on artificial neural network (ANN) topology, specifically for the purpose of creating a topology appropriate for complex problem solving. Functionality of the system may be broken into three parts; the learning mode will be a