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brinan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:23 am So sorry. Noomen_2Ply_Book.pgn was a stupid choice. Meant pgn opening moves file, not opening positions.
Question still stands. Can each engine be given a different book of opening moves? Arena GUI allows this, although restricted to abk files.
If not, consider reply a feature request.
Sorry for confusion.

AdminX wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:32 am Feature Request:

I don't know if this is within your scope for Banksia, however I have always been a fan of 'Live URLs' as they are implemented in Hiarcs Chess Explorer. They give you the ability to view live PGNs as the game is in progress at some major events. This allows you to use the engine of your choice to assist with game analysis.

AdminX wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:34 pm Dock Placement Feature Request

is it possible to customize the placement of two docked windows side by side with no tabs. I would like the ability to have the 'Score Graph' dock to the left or right of the 'PV Board' dock. Currently I can only place it above or below. Maybe even with the ability to size them.

Guenther wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:18 pm

phhnguyen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 11:21 pm ...
For example, BSG can work with an engine JSON:

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{
    "app" : 
    {
      "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/Gogobello_21-64/gogobello_21-64.exe",
      "name" : "Gogobello_21-64",
      "protocol" : "uci"
    },
...

Shouldn't this work then, but it doesn't?

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{
    "app" : 
    {
      "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/AbsoluteZero_2440-64/AbsoluteZero_2440-64.exe -u",
      "name" : "AbsoluteZero_2440-64",
      "protocol" : "uci",
      "working folder" : "C:\\Engines\\UCI\\AbsoluteZero_2440-64"
    },
},
{
    "app" : 
    {
      "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/RubiChess_16-64/RubiChess_16-64.exe",
      "name" : "RubiChess_16-64",
      "protocol" : "uci",
      "working folder" : "C:\\Engines\\UCI\\RubiChess_16-64"
    }
}

[
    {
        "app" :
        {
          "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/AbsoluteZero_2440-64/AbsoluteZero_2440-64.exe -u",
          "name" : "AbsoluteZero_2440-64",
          "protocol" : "uci",
          "working folder" : "C:\\Engines\\UCI\\AbsoluteZero_2440-64"
        }
    },
    {
        "app" :
        {
          "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/RubiChess_16-64/RubiChess_16-64.exe",
          "name" : "RubiChess_16-64",
          "protocol" : "uci",
          "working folder" : "C:\\Engines\\UCI\\RubiChess_16-64"
        }
    }
]

Damir wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 5:09 pm Guys give author of Banksia GUI a rest.
I am sure he is doing the best he can to fix the bugs. It does not help that you keep reporting this and that is not working every single second.

phhnguyen wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:00 pm Sorry, my bad! My example is a part of JSON, not a full one. Your content is good, just need to fix to follow JSON grammar: add [] to begin/end and remove a redundant comma as the bellow code.

To check if that JSON correct from BSG, go to Settings dialog, General tab and click on the button "edit" to see if there is an error. You can use some online websites (json validator) to check too.

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[
    {
        "app" :
        {
          "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/AbsoluteZero_2440-64/AbsoluteZero_2440-64.exe -u",
          "name" : "AbsoluteZero_2440-64",
          "protocol" : "uci",
          "working folder" : "C:\\Engines\\UCI\\AbsoluteZero_2440-64"
        }
    },
    {
        "app" :
        {
          "command" : "C:/Engines/UCI/RubiChess_16-64/RubiChess_16-64.exe",
          "name" : "RubiChess_16-64",
          "protocol" : "uci",
          "working folder" : "C:\\Engines\\UCI\\RubiChess_16-64"
        }
    }
]

Guenther wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:20 pm Can you tell me how to use a pgn 'book' with starting lines in a tournament setup?

I did not succeed with the engines using my pgn file instead they always used the start position.

The content looks like this:

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[Event "Book"]
[Site "RWBC"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ABC"]
[Black "XYZ"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Book"]
[Site "RWBC"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ABC"]
[Black "XYZ"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6 3. e4 g6 1/2-1/2

  "openings" : 
  {
    "base" : 
    {
      "allone fen" : "",
      "seed" : -1,
      "select type" : "allnew"
    },
    "books" : null
  },

gerhard wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:05 am Hello Nguyen

first I want to thank you for this great GUI. You have a done a great job in short time.
Also I am very pleased your GUI is working under Debian 10 - that is very very fine

gerhard wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:05 am when you have time, maybe you can look at this:
my older notebook only has display resolution 1366x768, so when I open the option "new tournament" - I am not able to access the ok botton

it would be nice when this could be fixed
Thank you

Guenther wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:40 am

Guenther wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:20 pm Can you tell me how to use a pgn 'book' with starting lines in a tournament setup?

I did not succeed with the engines using my pgn file instead they always used the start position.

The content looks like this:

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[Event "Book"]
[Site "RWBC"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ABC"]
[Black "XYZ"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Book"]
[Site "RWBC"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ABC"]
[Black "XYZ"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6 3. e4 g6 1/2-1/2

Well it worked only for one game (screenshot was posted), but later after a fresh setup of the BanksiaGui it never worked again.
It simply doesn't write any entry for the selected pgn file into the banksiatour.json. What can be the reason?

The opening section there always looks empty like this at start of a tournament:

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  "openings" : 
  {
    "base" : 
    {
      "allone fen" : "",
      "seed" : -1,
      "select type" : "allnew"
    },
    "books" : null
  },