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phhnguyen
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by phhnguyen » Mon Nov 18, 2019 2:27 am
Hi all,
I am glad to release my new program: Banksia GUI - a chess GUI. It is totally freeware and can run in almost all major operating systems, can do almost all typical tasks of a chess GUI.
Just list a few features:
- Support both UCI and WinBoard protocols
- Can play all types of games (human-human, human-computer, computer-computer, engine tournaments), support all popular tournament types
- Good and high customizable graphics
- Support databases, popular book formats (PGN, EDP, Polyglot)
- Supports some new chess techniques/trends. For examples, it supports:
- [+] Lc0: understand and show its stats in multi visual ways: tables (all columns are sortable), bubbles (customizable for sizes, colors and contents/which stats to show)
- [+] chessdb.com: query for both opening and endgame positions
- [+] syzygy: users can exam endgame positions
- Engines, databases, books could be auto-downloaded and configurated
- Easy to use. Many tasks could be done much easy and fast, such as auto-detecting engines, making/reusing tournaments
Home page:
https://banksiagui.com
Download (temporary for alpha versions) pages:
https://banksiagui.com/preview-versions
Current releases are alpha versions and just for computer chess enthusiasts. At the moment there are binaries for Windows 10-64 bit and macOS only. Other binaries (for Win 7, Linux) will be released later.
Banksia GUI is built based on our open-source
Banksia - a chess tournament
Thank you a lot for downloading and using. Feedbacks, bug reports and ideas are warm welcomes
Some screenshots:
Easy for playing and for running tournaments:
Support deeply Lc0:
Simple:
Query chessdb.cn:
A friend sent me a screenshot when he was testing with 18 concurrent games:

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giovanni
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by giovanni » Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:58 am
Thanks for sharing your software. Can you program perform interactive analysis a la IDEA in Aquarium?
https://chessok.com/?p=24457
There are several excelling free GUIs around (even with several overlapping function), but I haven't been able so far to find this feature.
Thanks again.
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Damir
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by Damir » Mon Nov 18, 2019 8:57 am
Thank you so much.

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by maxdeg » Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:33 am
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Ovyron
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by Ovyron » Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:07 am
Thanks phhnguyen.
giovanni wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:58 am
Thanks for sharing your software. Can you program perform interactive analysis a la IDEA in Aquarium?
https://chessok.com/?p=24457
There are several excelling free GUIs around (even with several overlapping function), but I haven't been able so far to find this feature.
Thanks again.
Oh yeah, I always go after giovanni and suggest the same thing. This is about storing a chess graph in a way that the user can have analysis of multiple engines and backsolve it. ChessDB is doing that but only with Stockfish and the user doesn't have a free alternative currently to do that.
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AdminX
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by AdminX » Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:11 am
Thanks, This might be a bug or feature that has not been enabled yet. However I am unable to change background color.
PS: I would change it in the BanksiaGUI.ini file but I don't recognize the syntax. I would like it to be #efeae2.
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AdminX on Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:31 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Gabor Szots
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by Gabor Szots » Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:19 am
Thanks for the new GUI.
However, I can't exit using the menu Exit command, only by clicking on the top-right x (as with other programs).
Gabor Szots
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AdminX
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by AdminX » Mon Nov 18, 2019 3:22 pm
Thank you again, it is a pleasure to be working with another GUI. My engine matches seem to be working well and I like chessdb.cn access.
https://i.ibb.co/2tzqR9q/2019-11-18-10-14-46.jpg
PS: I notice that there are problems detecting Eman (4.41)
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