Seems very interesting, I really think these approaches will work rather well on a variety of games. Very exciting times. Btw, there is another already Open Source Neural Network Chess engine that might be worth exploring for similar ideas. That codebase already has a minmax search based on the network evaluation. Paper is at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549 Code is at: https://bitbucket.org/waterreaction/giraffe