The following participants have completed the initial development of a program to play Arimaa.
- Claude Chaunier (France, bot_leapfrog) is a top ranked Lines of Action player and programmer.
- Don Daily (USA, bot_Occam) was the lead developer of MIT's Cilkchess Parallel Chess Program
- David Fotland (USA, bot_Bomb) is with Smart Games Inc.. His Go playing program won the 2002 computer championship.
- Brian Galebach (USA, bot_Brain)
- Toby Hudson (UK, bot_GnoBot) is a researcher in London. His Roshambo program won the 2003 computer championship.
- Jeff Bacher (Canada, bot_Clueless) developed an OCTI program which won the 2003 computer championship.
- Haizhi Zhong (Canada, bot_hz) is a graduate student at the University of Alberta.
- Paul Pogonyshev (Belarus, botAamira)
- Gerhard Trippen (Germany, bot_Loc)
The following participants are at various stages of development and testing.
- Ricky Chu, Kai and Jenny are students from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Nicolas Barriga and Nicolas Barriga are graduate students at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile.
- Christ-Jan Cox is a graduate student at the University of Maastricht
- Jurij Sorli is a graduate studen in Computer and Information Science Dept. at University of Ljubljana, Solvenia
- Thore Graepel and Craig Saunders are Professors at the Royal Holloway, University of London
- Whit Zweifel is a student at the University of Georgia
- Francois Scheffer is a graduate student at University of Pretoria South Africa
- Harsh Jain is a graduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bobmay
- Sujay Phadke is a graduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bobmay
- John Yates
- Ned Bent
- Willem Duminy
- David Monast
- Chris St. John
- Ira Fay
- Ron Romero
- Don Beal
- Louis Vasquez
- Michael Skinner
- Rudi Cilibrasi
- Donald Atkinson
- Lionel Bonnetier
- Brian Haskin
- Ben Hocking
- Jason Dowling
- Manuel J. Petit de G.
- Inge Wallin
- Urban Hafner
- Sigma One (Hugh)
- Mark Luffel
- Jose Otzeta
- Terry Smith
- Michael Nonemacher
- Rob van Nobelen
- Yuri Sorkin
- Don Irwin
- Vidur Gupta
- Paul Mertens
- Vikram Pudi
- Joe Pleso
- Ketan Vyas
- Brad Hanson
- Arvind Narayanan
- Lu Zheng
- Alex Butterfield
- Iny Long
- Paul Furber
- Ray Benson
- Milan Zoric
- Terry Smith
- Aaron Hager
- Brian Wilson
- Olaf Lake
- David Paris
- Lai Yau Chau
- Jeremy Pflasterer
- Neil Stephens
- Michael Quist
- Evan Dorn