                         GNU Backgammon was written by:

 Joseph Heled   ystein Johansen   David Montgomery   Jrn Thyssen   Gary Wong



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

    Kazuaki Asai            Fotis                   Eli Liang
    Eric Augustine          Michel Grimminck        Kevin Maguire
    Steve Baedke            Eric Groleau            Thomas Meyer
    Holger Bochnig          Jeff Haferman           Achim Mueller
    Chuck Bower             Alain Henry             Magnar Naustdalslid
    Nick Bratby             Jens Hoefkens           Dave Neary
    Craig Campbell          Nis Jorgensen           Mirori Orange
    John Chuang             Matija Kejzar           Peter Orum
    Tristan Colgate         Jonathan Kinsey         Roy Passfield
    Olivier Croisille       Johnny Kirk             Thomas Patrick
    Ned Cross               Gerhard Knop            Zvezdan Petkovic
    Bill Davidson           Robert Konigsberg       Nardy Pillards
    Michael Depreli         Corrin Lakeland
    Max Durbano             Tim Laursen


  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   Michael Zehr
             Chuck Bower     Brian Sheppard  Morten Wang

       
    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)


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