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