Towards staged evolution of an artificial player for Hex by enlarging the boardsize during training

Although the game of Hex has simple rules it is a challenging task for machine learning and therefore a possible testbed for incremental learning. This article first describes a possibility how to implement a simple learning artificial player for Hex. Some pilot training experiments indicate that evolutionary hill climbing is able to improve the playing strength of the player. However, the strategy to facilitate the process of learning by first using a small sized board and after some training to increase the board size seems not to work.