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Scid: Thanks and Acknowledgements
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There are a lot of people who have, in some way, helped Scid become
what it is today.

Thanks to the following people who made helpful suggestions or bug 
reports at some time, with apologies to the many people I have missed:

  Giancarlo Bassi, Bernhard Bialas, Jordi González Boada, Jolly Chen,
  Dann Corbit, Garth Corral, Scott Franklin, Jens Guballa, Udo Held,
  Peter Herttrich, Kent Hunt, Gerard Jungman, Allen Lake, Ingo Lohmar,
  Mark Oakden, Joel Rivat, Michal Rudolf, Alberto Santini, Julien Scharl,
  Bradley Small, Daniel South, Kayvan A. Sylvan, Ignacio Urbelz,
  John Wiegley.

Thank you to the following people who have helped with translation:

  Gilles Maire, Vincent Serisier, Joel Rivat, Pascal Heisel (French);
  Bernhard Bialas, Jürgen Clos, et al (German);
  Giancarlo Bassi, Paolo Montrasi, Michele Rinesi (Italian);
  Jordi González Boada (Spanish);
  Gilberto de Almeida Peres (Portuguese-Brazilian);
  J.Kees Hofkamp, Jan Krabbenbos, Leander Laruelle (Netherlands);
  Martin Skjöldebrand (Swedish);
  Morten Skarstad (Norsk);
  Michal Rudolf, Adam Umiastowski (Polish);
  Pavel Hanak (Czech);
  Gábor Szőts (Hungarian);
  Milos Pejovic (Serbian/Yugoslav).

A HUGE THANKS to Michal Rudolf who did most of the code maintenance of
Scid during 2003 when I was offline.

Thanks to Manuel Hoelss for programming the "Promote variation to
main line" function (which was added to Scid 2.4); to John Wiegley
for contributing the useful "pgnfix" script that cleans up PGN files
and "eco2pgn" that converts scid.eco to a PGN file; and to Mark Oakden
who wrote the useful "sc_remote" utility.

Thanks to Anjo Anjewierden for his chess player data (at www.anjo.demon.nl)
which is used to correct errors in spelling.ssp and also to automatically
generate ratings.ssp from spelling.ssp.

The piece images used in Scid are transparent GIF images generated from
some of the freeware TrueType fonts at the excellent Chess Fonts page
of the En Passant website, http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/fonteng.htm
hosted by the Norresundby chess club.
The font authors are:
  Alpha: Eric Bentzen
  Leipzig, Merida: Armando H. Marroquin

Scid uses the free Tcl package "ezsmtp" (http://www.millibits.com/djh/tcl/)
written by D.J. Hagberg, for sending email messages using SMTP.

Finally, thanks also to Eugene Nalimov for allowing his tablebase-decoding
software to be used in Scid, and to Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler for
their free "zlib" data compression library which allows Scid to read
Gzip-compressed files.

If you think you deserve a mention here, or are mentioned but would
rather remain anonymous, just send me an email.

-- 
Shane Hudson
sgh@users.sourceforge.net