GNU Backgammon was written by: Joseph Heled Jim Segrave Michael Petch Oystein Johansen Joern Thyssen Philippe Michel Jonathan Kinsey Gary Wong David Montgomery Christian Anthon Support by: Oystein Johansen (Web Pages) Nardy Pillards (Web Pages) Achim Mueller (Manual) Albert Silver (Tutorial) Contributors of code include: Olivier Baur Petr Kadlec Jeremy Moore Holger Bochnig Kaoru Takahashi Rod Roark Guido Flohr Stein Kulseth Nis Joergensen Ingo Macherius Translations by: Petr Kadlec (Czech) Joern Thyssen (Danish) Olivier Baur (French) Achim Mueller (German) Vangelis Skarmoutsos (Greek) 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: Russ Allbery Neil Kazaross Jared Riley Misja Alma Mathias Kegelmann Klaus Rindholt Kazuaki Asai Matija Kejzar Oliver Riordan Eric Augustine Bert Van Kerckhove Alex Romosan Erik Barfoed James F. Kibler Hans-Juergen Schaefer Ron Barry Johnny Kirk Steve Schreiber Steve Baedke Gerhard Knop Hugh Sconyers Stefan van den Berg Robert Konigsberg Martin Schrode Frank Berger Martin Krainer Paul Selick Jim Borror Elias Kritikos Sho Sengoku Chuck Bower Corrin Lakeland Ian Shaw Adrian Bunk Tim Laursen Alberta di Silvio Nick Bratby Myshkin LeVine Peter Sochovsky Craig Campbell Eli Liang Mark Spencer Timothy Chow Ege Lundgren Scott Steiner John Chuang Kevin Maguire Maik Stiebler Tristan Colgate Massimiliano Maini W. Stroop (Rob) Olivier Croisille Giulio De Marco Daisuke Takahashi Ned Cross John Marttila Yoshito Takeuchi Ian Curtis Alix Martin Jacques Thiriat Bill Davidson Tom Martin Malene Thyssen Michael Depreli William Maslen Claes Tornberg Ian Dunstan Joachim Matussek Sander van Rijnswou Max Durbano Thomas Meyer Robert-Jan Veldhuizen Peter Eberhard Daniel Murphy Morten Wang Robert Eberlein Magnar Naustdalslid Jeff White Fotis Dave Neary JP White Dan Fandrich Rolf Nielsen Mike Whitton Kennedy Fraser Mirori Orange Chris Wilson Ric Gerace Peter Orum Simon Woodhead Michel Grimminck Roy Passfield Kit Woolsey Eric Groleau Thomas Patrick Frank Worrell Jeff Haferman Billie Patterson Christopher D. Yep Morten Juul Henriksen Zvezdan Petkovic Anders Zachrison Alain Henry Petri Pitkanen Douglas Zare Jens Hoefkens Sam Pottle Louis Zulli Casey Hopkins Henrik Ravn Martin Janke 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: Austin Appleby (the MurmurHash3 hashing function) 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) Brian Paul (the TR tile rendering library) 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>