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-<h2 class="chapter">9 Authors and contributors</h2>
+<h2 class="chapter">10 Authors and contributors</h2>
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+<p><a name="index-Authors-607"></a><a name="index-Contributors-608"></a>
+Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were
+responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2. The color scheme was taken
+from Wayne Christopher's <code>XChess</code> program.
+
+ <p>Tim Mann was primarily responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 through
+4.2.7, and for WinBoard (a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32) from its
+inception through version 4.2.7.
+
+ <p>John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of ICS mode. Evan
+Welsh wrote <code>CMail</code>, and Patrick Surry helped in designing,
+testing, and documenting it. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece
+bitmaps introduced in version 3.2. Jochen Wiedmann converted the
+documentation to texinfo. Frank McIngvale added click/click moving,
+the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import, and ICS text
+colorization to XBoard. Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to
+XBoard, and Henrik Gram added it to WinBoard. Mark Williams
+contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation of many new
+features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version 4.1.0, including
+copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training mode, auto
+raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste code for
+XBoard.
+
+ <p>In a fork from version 4.2.7, Alessandro Scotti added many elements to
+the user interface of WinBoard, including the board textures and
+font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph, move-history and
+engine-output window. He was also responsible for adding the UCI
+support.
+
+ <p>H. G. Muller continued this fork of the project, producing version
+4.3. He made WinBoard castling- and e.p.-aware, added variant support
+with adjustable board sizes, the crazyhouse holdings, and the fairy
+pieces. In addition he added most of the adjudication options, made
+WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines, and
+extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes.
+Most of the options that initially were WinBoard only have now been
+back-ported to XBoard.
+
+ <p>Michel van den Bergh provided the code for reading Polyglot opening books.
+
+ <p>Meanwhile, some work continued on the GNU XBoard project maintained at
+savannah.gnu.org, but version 4.2.8 was never released. Daniel
+Mehrmann was responsible for much of this work.
-<p><a name="index-Authors-401"></a><a name="index-Contributors-402"></a>\r
-Tim Mann has been responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 and beyond, and\r
-for WinBoard, a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32 (Windows NT and\r
-Windows 95). H.G.Muller is responsible for version 4.3.\r
-\r
-Mark Williams contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation\r
-of many new features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version\r
-4.1.0, including copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training\r
-mode, auto raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste\r
-code for XBoard.\r
-\r
-Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to XBoard, and Henrik Gram\r
-(henrikg@funcom.com) added it to WinBoard. Frank McIngvale added\r
-click/click moving, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,\r
-and ICS text colorization to XBoard. Jochen Wiedmann ported XBoard to\r
-the Amiga, creating AmyBoard, and converted the documentation to\r
-texinfo. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece bitmaps introduced in\r
-version 3.2. John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of\r
-ICS mode. The color scheme and the old 80x80 piece bitmaps were taken\r
-from Wayne Christopher's <code>XChess</code> program.\r
-\r
-Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were\r
-responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2.\r
-\r
-Evan Welsh wrote <code>CMail</code>. Patrick Surry helped in designing,\r
-testing, and documenting CMail.\r
-\r
-Allessandro Scotti added many elements to the user interface of WinBoard, \r
-including the board textures and font-based rendering, the evaluation-graph, \r
-move-history and engine-output window. \r
-He was also responsible for adding the UCI support. \r
-\r
-H.G. Muller made WinBoard castling- and e.p.-aware, \r
-added variant support with adjustable board sizes, \r
-the crazyhouse holdings, and the fairy pieces. \r
-In addition he added most of the adjudication options, \r
-made WinBoard more robust in dealing with buggy and crashing engines, \r
-and extended time control with a time-odds and node-count-based modes.\r
-Most of the options that initially wre WinBoard only have now been back-ported to XBoard.\r
-\r
-Michel van den Bergh provided the code for reading Polyglot opening books.\r
-\r
-Arun Persaud worked with H.G. Muller to combine all the features of the never-released WinBoard 4.2.8 \r
-of the Savannah project (mainly by Daniel Mehrmann), \r
-and the never-released 4.3.16 into a unified WinBoard 4.4, \r
-which is now available both from the Savannah web site and the WinBoard forum.\r
+ <p>Most recently, Arun Persaud worked with H. G. Muller to merge all
+the features of the never-released XBoard/WinBoard 4.2.8 of the GNU
+XBoard project and the never-released 4.3.16 from H. G.'s fork into a
+unified XBoard/WinBoard 4.4, which is now available both from the
+savannah.gnu.org web site and the WinBoard forum.
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