Banksia GUI released
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 3:27 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:
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:
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: