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Hi all, Sorry all for not replying for a while. I have made a notice on the Banksia GUI home page (on the Download page) and now I re-post here for being understood: My wife has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. I have been with her to fight it thus I can’t focus on chess and BanksiaGUI at the...

Rowen wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:48 pm

Is Banksia a portable program?

Yes, it can run on Win64, macOS, Linux systems. Just download, unzip and click on program to run (don’t require installing).

It seems 20MB of disk space is prohibitively expensive, or that 20MB of download is incredibly slow on the dial-up internet of the complainers. Well said !! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I remember having downloaded the 6-man syzygy tablebases using a dial-up connection. It took a week or so... Are you s...

It seems 20MB of disk space is prohibitively expensive, or that 20MB of download is incredibly slow on the dial-up internet of the complainers. Well said !! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I remember having downloaded the 6-man syzygy tablebases using a dial-up connection. It took a week or so... Are you s...

... PS: You can rock a gold look with the following: PS: Not for me however. :D :lol: :lol: :lol: Perhaps, I should say "me too". However, I have experience about that. A long time ago, I released a freeware chess Java Applet with highly customizable. One of the busy websites used that applet but s...

AdminX wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 29, 2020 9:31 am

Thanks for the update, I will be sending this theme (metallic), inspired by Mark Young.


Click image for larger view.

New themes look very beautiful and impressive!!!

I will update and release it with the new version. Thanks a lot!

Version 0.37 beta released * Fixed bugs: * PGN parser/creator bugs on promotion moves * Download dialog shows nothing * Crash when reading EDP books * Some small bugs: sometimes missing mate score on Evaluation panel; collect wrongly data from PGN games to create stats * Some small improvements * N...

Just updated to Windows 10 Pro version 2004 , OS Build 19041.450btoday and Banksia GUI will not start - it opens and then collapses in a split second. Short video of screen - tried with two different versions, including the latest https://www.dropbox.com/s/zrec07p6v53sug2/Media1.mp4?dl=0 Update - c...

The xboard protocol is also an evolving protocol whereas the UCI protocol is stable dead. No evidence for your claim, isn’t it? ;) Winboard protocol has stopped at version 2, no more evolved since. The UCI protocol was invented after Winboard ver 2, learnt and could replace Winboard, thus it is goo...

PS: The Java version of OliThink uses an extra thread, because I didn't find a method to peek if there has been an input. It should be possible though with an library like Apache Commons and PeekableInputStream. So you can run your chess engine without any extra thread because of your program techn...