Banksia GUI released

[phhnguyen]

Lichess Bot feature doesn't work properly now. Engines losing on times almost every single time. Engines calculates too much and no moves are made. Sometimes BankSIA GUI even crash randomly when Lichess bot feature is on.

Thanks for the report!

Look like some part I have rewritten for Lichess bot is not good enough even it runs well on my computer. Will work with it next week! If you have some free time, I will send some versions to you to test.

[phhnguyen]

Just curious, since I'm just starting to learn Python.

Is BSG written in 100% Python?

Thanks,

No, 100% C++.

BSG has two parts, the chess core is open-source (Banksia, link https://github.com/nguyenpham/Banksia), written in pure C++ 11. The GUI is written in C++ too, using Qt framework (libraries for graphics, network...).

IMO, Python is a good programming language, easy to learn, easy to write code that may have significantly fewer bugs than C++... Some programmers have used Python (as well as JavaScript) to write some good chess GUIs.

Good choice!

[herO]

Lichess Bot feature doesn't work properly now. Engines losing on times almost every single time. Engines calculates too much and no moves are made. Sometimes BankSIA GUI even crash randomly when Lichess bot feature is on.

Thanks for the report!

Look like some part I have rewritten for Lichess bot is not good enough even it runs well on my computer. Will work with it next week! If you have some free time, I will send some versions to you to test.

Sure, I'll be glad to help you to test it.

[AlexChess]

Hi phhnguyen!

Just done a little donation via PayPal (Ubi Enjoy to Vietnamite Translator) to thank you for your very appreciated free contribute to the computer chess community

I would do more to support BanksiaGUI, eg: Italian menus translation. If you send me the English language file I could translate every word.

Tournament engines editing (add/replace/delete) seems to works fine on Windows 10 ARM64

PS: Could you compile Banksiagui 0.46 Also for Ubuntu Linux ARM64 (same as Raspberry PI4) or your Linux binary is already compatible? (Not yet tested)

Thank you again,
Best regards, AlexChess

[phhnguyen]

Hi phhnguyen!

Just done a little donation via PayPal (Ubi Enjoy to Vietnamite Translator) to thank you for your very appreciated free contribute to the computer chess community

I would do more to support BanksiaGUI, eg: Italian menus translation. If you send me the English language file I could translate every word.

I got it. Thank you very much Alex

To translate for BanksiaGUI, please visit the below link and follow the guide:

https://github.com/nguyenpham/BanksiaGUI-Translation

Help is always highly appreciated!

Tournament engines editing (add/replace/delete) seems to works fine on Windows 10 ARM64

PS: Could you compile Banksiagui 0.46 Also for Ubuntu Linux ARM64 (same as Raspberry PI4) or your Linux binary is already compatible? (Not yet tested)

Thank you again,
Best regards, AlexChess

BSG is compiled by Qt. It did not support desktop-ARM64 officially yet but I heart they may support it with the coming version (6). Thus I have been waiting for them.

[CMCanavessi]

To translate for BanksiaGUI, please visit the below link and follow the guide:

https://github.com/nguyenpham/BanksiaGUI-Translation

Nice, I'll help with Spanish

[Eduard]

To the developer (version 0.46):

When playing on Lichess as a bot, I have problems with Permanent Brain. It works, but after a few moves you no longer see the main variant in the engine window. The engine calculates, but you only see the calculation depth. The rest of the engine window is empty. There are also no main variants to be seen. The result is loss on time because the engine does not moves in this case.

Here is an image to download, playing without PB:

https://filehorst.de/d/duuwbkht

Here is a game without a permanent brain! Everything is correct here. You can see everything in the engine window, search depth, nodes, time and the main variant. The game is correct. I don't know what I did wrong that it doesn't work with Permanent Brain?

And one more thing: How can you offer a draw when playing with bots? It's pointless to play with rook against rook at the end, but I just had to endure a game like this.

[ydebilloez]

try something like https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... b3ae00d074

missing MSVCP140_1.dll: No such DLL on my system. Is installing VC2015 runtime a requirement for Banksia ?

BTW, I recently upgraded to Mint 20.2 and now have core-dumps in v45 and v46. I am sure it is my system but I share the issue anyway:

Jul 14 20:13:15 dell-m4800 systemd-coredump[11883]: Process 11847 (BanksiaGui) of user 1000 dumped core.#012#012Stack trace of thread 11873:#012#0 0x00007ff4152d618b __GI_raise (libc.so.6 + 0x4618b)#012#1 0x00007ff4152b5859 __GI_abort (libc.so.6 + 0x25859)#012#2 0x00007ff41568c911 n/a (libstdc++.so.6 + 0x9e911)#012#3 0x00007ff41569838c n/a (libstdc++.so.6 + 0xaa38c)#012#4 0x00007ff4156983f7 _ZSt9terminatev (libstdc++.so.6 + 0xaa3f7)#012#5 0x00007ff4156986a9 __cxa_throw (libstdc++.so.6 + 0xaa6a9)#012#6 0x00007ff41568f3ab n/a (libstdc++.so.6 + 0xa13ab)#012#7 0x0000562f6f5e00c3 n/a (/home/yves/Applications/BanksiaGui/bin/BanksiaGui + 0x19a0c3)#012#8 0x0000000000000005 n/a (n/a + 0x0)#012#9 0x0000562f73152600 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
Jul 14 20:13:15 dell-m4800 systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-11882-0.service: Succeeded.

[CMCanavessi]

• Tournament editor: can add a new engine to an existing tournament by creating new games for that engine vs other engines (for round-robin only)

I've found an issue here: Let's say I start a tournament with only 2 engines, Engine A and Engine B. 2 rounds, so I get 2 games:
Engine A vs Engine B
Engine B vs Engine A

Then I edit the tournament, select source Engine C and hit Create games, it will correctly create 4 games

Engine C vs Engine A
Engine A vs Engine C
Engine C vs Engine B
Engine B vs Engine C

but it looks like Engine C is not included on the engine's list of participants in the .json file, so it is "forgotten", because if then I select source Engine D and hit "Add games", it will also add 4 games, vs Engines A and B, and ignore/forget Engine C completely. Then add Engine E and again, 4 games vs A and B, and ignores C and D.

• Recent Tournaments: can back up manually

How do I back it up manually?


On another note: I was running a long tournament for like a week, and when game 172 was playing the GUI crashed (i could see the engines still running in the backgoround and the pgn file still updated when game 172 finished, so looks like the "cli" part didn't crash)... still, when i reopened the GUI, the games played were only 114, so I lost 58 of them (on the tournament progress, the pgn was intact). How can this be prevented? Is there a way to "save" the tournament progress after each game is played? (this happened with 0.45)

[AlexChess]

>How do I back it up manually?

On Recent Tournaments menu there is an icon + (Duplicate)

Regards, AlexChess