                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

 Joseph Heled   ystein Johansen   David Montgomery   Jrn Thyssen   Gary Wong



        Contributors (of bug reports, suggestions, and patches) include:

    Eric Augustine          Jens Hoefkens           Petri Pitknen
    Steve Baedke            Matija Kejzar           Sam Pottle
    Chuck Bower             Johnny Kirk             Jared Riley
    Nick Bratby             Corrin Lakeland         Oliver Riordan
    Craig Campbell          Tim Laursen             Ian Shaw
    John Chuang             Kevin Maguire           Jacques Thiriat
    Tristan Colgate         Dave Neary              JP White
    Bill Davidson           Peter Orum              Kit Woolsey
    Eric Groleau            Roy Passfield           Frank Worrell
    Jeff Haferman           Thomas Patrick
    Alain Henry             Zvezdan Petkovic


  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
             Chuck Bower     Brian Sheppard  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 (the Mersenne Twister pseudo random number generator)
                Gerry Tesauro (the "pubeval" position evaluator)


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