5 Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following people:

• Matthias Mutz, who originally developed GNU shogi as a spin-off of GNU chess and who very kindly let me take over the maintenance of this very interesting project.
• Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, for creating an organization where anyone can contribute software for the common good of all, for making GNU/Linux possible, and especially for writing emacs and gcc, without which my working life would be intolerable.
• Georges Hodges, for starting the Shogi Association in England, without which I would probably never have heard of shogi, for supplying shogi equipment, for publishing the excellent magazine “Shogi” (now sadly defunct), for personally answering all my silly questions by mail, and for being the ambassador of shogi to the West.
• Pieter Stouten, for having the most comprehensive shogi site on the World Wide Web (http://www.shogi.net), and for maintaining the shogi-l mailing list. Go to Pieter’s web site for more information on subscribing to the list. Also thanks to everyone who contributes and has contributed to that list.
• Matt Casters, for testing GNU shogi. Matt and I will be working together on improving the solution engine in future versions of this program.