Morpion Solitaire - List of the site's news added May 30th 2011

• NEW WORLD RECORD by Chris Rosin! 177 moves at the 5T game, 5 more moves than his previous record of August 2010, with two grids.
                   
• Before this new 5T record, Dimitri Tishchenko obtained 172 moves, equalling Rosin's previous record, with a different grid
• Chris Rosin found other grids of 82 moves at the 5D game, equalling his previous record of 2010.
• A few months after his 5T grids of 145 and 146 moves, Haruhiko Akiyama won the Gold Medal with his program playing at Quoridor, at the 15th Computer Olympiad organized by the ICGA. Congratulations!
• Original handwritten grids of C.W. Millington, including the handwritten grid of the first world record, found by Bernard Lemaire in his archives. Thanks Bernard!
• Old proposition of upper bound of 781 moves, 5T game, by Christian Klipfel, obtained in the 70's

• Papers and book:
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  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence to be held in July 2011, Barcelona, Spain, with this prize already announced by the Commitee:
  IJCAI 2011 "distinguished paper award" won by Chris Rosin for his paper describing his new record of 177 moves. Congratulations!
  

• Paper on Pierre Berloquin published in Libération (French newspaper). Go to the links below his photo.
• I discovered a ninth column on Morpion Solitaire published several years ago by Pierre Berloquin in Science & Vie. But no record grid in this paper.
• MKWI 2010 paper by Stefan Edelkamp, Peter Kissmann, Damian Sulewski, Hartmut Messerschmidt
• Book by Erik Demaine and Robert Hearn, Morpion Solitaire among the games presented.

• Added in the links:
• Kreski website, on Morpion Solitaire and variants, by Zbigniew Galias
• Morpion Solitaire app for mobile phones, by Dariusz Gierlotka
   

Not truly on the game of Morpion Solitaire...
...but also added in the website, because on Morpion!

• EIGHT new pages on the word "Morpion" (sorry, pages written in French). For example, we can read:
                     
• The word "Morpion" appeared in a French text in 1532. In Pantagruel, by Rabelais
• The word "Morpion" appeared in an English text in 1597. In The Whole Course of Chirurgerie, by Peter Lowe
           "The Morpions (...) are found chiefly about the privy parts"
• There is a "Morpion" island in the Caribbean
• "Morpion" as an insult in Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. Vladimir and Estragon:
           "-Moron!
           -Vermin!
           -Abortion!
           -Morpion!"
• People play at "Morpion" in Troubled Sleep, by Jean-Paul Sartre:
           "-The return game?
           -What do you play?, asked Mathieu
           -At morpion
           -That can be played by three?
           -No."
• "Morpion", American jazz titles, one by Paul Motian, the other one by Marilyn Crispell
• ..... and a lot of other "Morpions"!

© Christian Boyer, www.morpionsolitaire.com