THANKS

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-- THANKS
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Thanks to the people listed here, we currently enjoy playing go
online.  If you ever run into them, please by them a beer (or two).
And don't forget the people listed in 'AUTHORS' ...


The original NNGS programming team:
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Todd Cooper, Bill Shubert, Fred R. Stearns, John Tromp, Erik Van Riper

[for copyright information and the current programming team,
 please see the file 'AUTHORS']


Help Files:
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David Godinger


Support and information:
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John Bate        John Bolton     Marc Gonzalez Bulma Joseph W. Carl Jr.
J.H.N Chin       Stephen Coffin  Daryl Essam         David Fotland
Christian Haider Eric Hoffman    Ton Hospel          Man Li
Per-Erik Martin  David Mechner   John Neil           Maury Ostroff
Dan Putnam       Stephen Richard Norman Richards     Bill Taylor
Ken Warkentyne


We at NNGS wish to credit the Free Internet Chess Server folks for
giving us their source code to start from.  Thank you!


Other Credit:
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  Michael Moore  -   Progenitor of the chess server idea and author of
                     the original server. Without him, the chess server
		     might not exist.

  Richard Nash   -   Original author of FICS.

  Daniel Sleator -   Author of AICS and responsible for many of the ideas
                     that makes the chess server as popular as it is.