                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

    Joseph Heled            David Montgomery        Gary Wong
    Oystein Johansen        Jim Segrave
    Jonathan Kinsey         Joern Thyssen
 
                                   Support by:

     Oystein Johansen (Web Pages)    Nardy Pillards (Web Pages)
     Achim Mueller (Manual)          Albert Silver (Tutorial)

                         Contributors of code include:

    Olivier Baur    Nis Joergensen  Kaoru Takahashi Mike Petch
    Holger Bochnig  Petr Kadlec     Stein Kulseth   Rod Roark

                            Translations by:

     Petr Kadlec (Czech)
     Joern Thyssen (Danish)
     Olivier Baur (French)
     Achim Mueller (German)
     Hlynur Sigurgislason (Icelandic)
     Renzo Campagna (Italian)
     Yoshito Takeuchi (Japanese)
     Akif Dinc (Turkish)
     Dmitri I GOULIAEV (Russian)

             Contributors (of bug reports and suggestions) include:

    Elias Kritikos          Nis Jorgensen           James Rech
    Misja Alma              Neil Kazaross           Jared Riley
    Christian Anthon        Mathias Kegelmann       Klaus Rindholt
    Kazuaki Asai            Matija Kejzar           Oliver Riordan
    Eric Augustine          Bert Van Kerckhove      Hans-Juergen Schaefer
    Erik Barfoed            James F. Kibler         Steve Schreiber
    Ron Barry               Johnny Kirk             Hugh Sconyers
    Steve Baedke            Gerhard Knop            Martin Schrode
    Stefan van den Berg     Robert Konigsberg       Paul Selick
    Chuck Bower             Martin Krainer          Sho Sengoku
    Adrian Bunk             Corrin Lakeland         Ian Shaw
    Nick Bratby             Tim Laursen             Alberta di Silvio
    Craig Campbell          Eli Liang               Peter Sochovsky
    John Chuang             Ege Lundgren            Mark Spencer
    Tristan Colgate         Kevin Maguire           Scott Steiner
    Olivier Croisille       Massimiliano Maini      Maik Stiebler
    Ned Cross               Giulio De Marco         W. Stroop (Rob)
    Ian Curtis              John Marttila           Yoshito Takeuchi
    Bill Davidson           Alix Martin             Jacques Thiriat
    Michael Depreli         William Maslen          Malene Thyssen
    Ian Dunstan             Joachim Matussek        Claes Tornberg
    Max Durbano             Thomas Meyer            Sander van Rijnswou
    Peter Eberhard          Daniel Murphy           Robert-Jan Veldhuizen
    Robert Eberlein         Magnar Naustdalslid     Morten Wang
    Fotis                   Dave Neary              Jeff White
    Kennedy Fraser          Rolf Nielsen            JP White
    Ric Gerace              Mirori Orange           Mike Whitton
    Michel Grimminck        Peter Orum              Chris Wilson
    Eric Groleau            Roy Passfield           Kit Woolsey
    Jeff Haferman           Thomas Patrick          Frank Worrell
    Morten Juul Henriksen   Billie Patterson        Christopher D. Yep
    Alain Henry             Zvezdan Petkovic        Anders Zachrison
    Jens Hoefkens           Petri Pitkanen          Douglas Zare
    Casey Hopkins           Sam Pottle
    Martin Janke            Henrik Ravn


  Credit is also due to those who have published information about backgammon
   playing programs (references will appear here later).  GNU Backgammon has
                              borrowed ideas from:

    Hans Berliner   Rick Janowski   Gerry Tesauro   Douglas Zare
    Chuck Bower     Brian Sheppard  Morten Wang     Michael Zehr

       
    The manual for GNU Backgammon includes a chapter describing the rules of
      backgammon, written by Tom Keith for his Backgammon Galore web site
                             <http://www.bkgm.com/>.


  Library code from the following authors has been included in GNU Backgammon:

     Ulrich Drepper (an implementation of the public domain MD5 algorithm)
             Bob Jenkins (the ISAAC pseudo random number generator)
       Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto (the Mersenne Twister PRNG)
                Gerry Tesauro (the "pubeval" position evaluator)
             Claes Tornberg (the mec match equity table generator)


      If you feel that you're not given credits for your contributions to
         GNU Backgammon please write to one of the developers.


       Please send bug reports for GNU Backgammon to: <bug-gnubg@gnu.org>
