                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

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

     Oeystein 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)
     Kaoru Takahashi (Japanese)
     Akif Dinc (Turkish)
     Dmitri I GOULIAEV (Russian)

             Contributors (of bug reports and suggestions) include:

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