GNU Backgammon was written by:
Joseph Heled Jim Segrave Christian Anthon
Oystein Johansen Joern Thyssen Michael Petch
Jonathan Kinsey Gary Wong Philippe Michel
David Montgomery
Support by:
Oystein Johansen (Web Pages) Nardy Pillards (Web Pages)
Achim Mueller (Manual) Albert Silver (Tutorial)
Contributors of code include:
Olivier Baur Petr Kadlec Rod Roark
Holger Bochnig Kaoru Takahashi Ingo Macherius
Nis Joergensen Stein Kulseth Guido Flohr
Translations by:
Petr Kadlec (Czech)
Joern Thyssen (Danish)
Olivier Baur (French)
Achim Mueller (German)
Hlynur Sigurgislason (Icelandic)
Renzo Campagna (Italian)
Yoshito Takeuchi (Japanese)
Mihai Varzaru (Romanian)
Dmitri I Gouliaev (Russian)
Akif Dinc (Turkish)
Contributors (of bug reports and suggestions) include:
Misja Alma Mathias Kegelmann James Rech
Kazuaki Asai Matija Kejzar Jared Riley
Eric Augustine Bert Van Kerckhove Klaus Rindholt
Erik Barfoed James F. Kibler Oliver Riordan
Ron Barry Johnny Kirk Alex Romosan
Steve Baedke Gerhard Knop Hans-Juergen Schaefer
Stefan van den Berg Robert Konigsberg Steve Schreiber
Chuck Bower Martin Krainer Hugh Sconyers
Adrian Bunk Elias Kritikos Martin Schrode
Nick Bratby Corrin Lakeland Paul Selick
Craig Campbell Tim Laursen Sho Sengoku
Timothy Chow Eli Liang Ian Shaw
John Chuang Ege Lundgren Alberta di Silvio
Tristan Colgate Kevin Maguire Peter Sochovsky
Olivier Croisille Massimiliano Maini Mark Spencer
Ned Cross Giulio De Marco Scott Steiner
Ian Curtis John Marttila Maik Stiebler
Bill Davidson Alix Martin W. Stroop (Rob)
Michael Depreli Tom 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
Dan Fandrich 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
Casey Hopkins Sam Pottle Douglas Zare
Martin Janke Henrik Ravn Louis Zulli
Neil Kazaross
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, hashing functions)
Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto (the Mersenne Twister PRNG)
Brian Paul (the TR tile rendering library)
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>
