
Primary author and project maintainer (https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo):
David J Wu ("lightvector")

Many thanks to these additional authors:
Tycho Tatitscheff ("tychota") - for documentation and build improvements
Bernd Schmidt ("bernds") - for minor build improvements
Loren Puchalla Fiore ("lpuchallafiore") - for a wide variety of code refactors and fixes
"TFiFiE" - for minor build improvements
"iopq" - for a fix to python script imports
Brett Harrison - coauthor of part of the original game board code
Annie Wagner ("featurecat") - slight readme edits
Martin Häcker ("dwt") - minor bugfix, MacOS support, commandline improvements
"yenw" - simple compile fix on MacOS.
Adrian Petrescu ("apetresc") - MacOS support
Anson Hu ("farmersrice") - frontend features and logic
Sander Land ("sanderland") - many options for analysis engine, various bugfixes and other work
Alexander Noack ("shammyx") - minor customization for resign logic
"yffbit" - minor optimization for benson's algorithm
Michael Reilly ("OmnipotentEntity") - workaround for CUDA on some cmake versions and other work
Hiraoka ("kaorahi") - for help optimizing Eigen backend and other work
Akita Noek ("anoek") - for some minor performance and api suggestions, minor cuda work
Harald Han - for some work on CUDNN8 support
"inbae" - for removing boost filesystem dependencies
"rimathia" - for a minor bugfix
"Jonathan_Go" - for help with client proxy support
Jonathan Roy ("roy7") - for various search refactors
Kensuke Matsuzaki ("zakki") - catching a buffer overrun bug
Kuang-che Wu ("kcwu") - minor improvement to distributed logging
"yzyray" - minor bugfix, improvements to gtp extensions
"fuhaoda" - code optimizations, testing, and other improvements
"y-ich" - for GPU optimization suggestions and other minor features
Yule Hou ("hyln9") - For implementing TensorRT backend and various testing and work.
"rooklift" - various documentation improvements
Viktor Pogrebniak ("avtomaton") - for improvements on the config system
Adam Gleave - for improvements on the config system
Emanuel-de-Jong - For minor improvement to GTP command.

Separately from the authors of the content in this repo, additional special thanks to:
Junyan Xu ("alreadydone") - for much testing and troubleshooting for Windows support
"petgo3" - for bugfinding and advice on supporting KGS api
"sbbdms" - for much testing of cpuct and uncertainty parameters
"Medwin", "shengke" and others - for many tests and ideas and parameters
"lionfenfen", and Yi XiaoTian - For highly promising ideas to improve nets for next release.
