GNU Go 3.3.23

GNU Go 3.3.23 is now available at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/devel.html

and in the CVS.

This is a release candidate for GNU Go 3.4. Let us test
it for a few days. I hope there will be no changes to the
engine after this before 3.4.

(Go ahead and send in your patches. If they affect the
engine they can go into 3.5.1.)

Doc revision is of course welcome at this point. (New
writing or rewriting but no major reorganizations.) If
you want to submit any documentation and don't want to
write texinfo we can convert ascii documentation.

I don't think there are any changes since 3.3.22 that could
break compilation under OS X and Windows. However we'd
still like to hear if you compile it successfully on
other platforms. (How about solaris?)

If you can run the regressions on other platforms, could
you let us know if there are any changed results?

Did we forget anyone in the file THANKS?

Did we forget anything else?

If you want to do any testing, we're interested in
knowing if the engine is slower than 3.2. I believe that
it is, but perhaps the following is true: that level 9
may be comparable to GNU Go 3.2 and about 2 stones
stronger. 

My justification for the strength claim is that level 9
is the same as level 10 with just the breakin code turned
off. (So it should be between 10 and 15 percent faster than
level 10.) So the level 9 results might be similar to:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-devel/2003-06/msg00155.html

In short, any kind of testing you want to do on this engine
would be welcome.

Dan