This manual was lacking it's most important section, HISTORY.

While here, add .An (author name) macros.

diff --git a/games/backgammon/backgammon/backgammon.6 b/games/backgammon/backgammon/backgammon.6
index a03f422..6616bcb 100644 (file)
--- a/games/backgammon/backgammon/backgammon.6
+++ b/games/backgammon/backgammon/backgammon.6
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: backgammon.6,v 1.19 2007/05/31 19:19:16 jmc Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: backgammon.6,v 1.20 2014/04/25 20:33:05 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"    @(#)backgammon.6        8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 25 2014 $
 .Dt BACKGAMMON 6
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -148,10 +148,17 @@ or 0 or 25 as appropriate.
 .It Pa /usr/games/teachgammon
 rules and tutorial
 .El
+.Sh HISTORY
+The game
+.Nm
+first appeared in
+.Bx 3 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
-Alan Char
+.An -nosplit
+.An Alan Char
 .Pp
 The strategy is the
 .Dq pubeval
-algorithm of Gerry Tesauro,
+algorithm of
+.An Gerry Tesauro ,
 with minimal doubling logic added.