                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

               Joseph Heled     ystein Johansen     David Montgomery   
                  Jim Segrave     Jrn Thyssen     Gary Wong



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

    Elias Kritikos          Robert Eberlein         Corrin Lakeland
    Misja Alma              Fotis                   Tim Laursen
    Kazuaki Asai            Kennedy Fraser          Eli Liang
    Eric Augustine          Ric Gerace              Ege Lundgren
    Erik Barfoed            Michel Grimminck        Kevin Maguire
    Ron Barry               Eric Groleau            Massimiliano Maini
    Steve Baedke            Jeff Haferman           Giulio De Marco
    Olivier Baur            Morten Juul Henriksen   Alix Martin
    Stefan van den Berg     Alain Henry             William Maslen
    Holger Bochnig          Jens Hoefkens           Thomas Meyer
    Chuck Bower             Martin Janke            Achim Mueller
    Nick Bratby             Nis Jorgensen           Daniel Murphy
    Renzo Campagna          Petr Kadlec             Magnar Naustdalslid
    Craig Campbell          Neil Kazaross           Dave Neary
    John Chuang             Mathias Kegelmann       Rolf Nielsen
    Tristan Colgate         Matija Kejzar           Mirori Orange
    Olivier Croisille       Bert Van Kerckhove      Peter Orum
    Ned Cross               James F. Kibler         Roy Passfield
    Bill Davidson           Jonathan Kinsey         Thomas Patrick
    Michael Depreli         Johnny Kirk             Billie Patterson
    Ian Dunstan             Gerhard Knop            Mike Petch
    Max Durbano             Robert Konigsberg       Zvezdan Petkovic
    Peter Eberhard          Martin Krainer          Nardy Pillards


  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)


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


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