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Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:03 pm When I tried to edit one of the engines (miniMardi), the program displayed the parameters for Mussaurus. It seems it was confused by having similar names in the list. The relevant part looks like:

MiniChessAI
miniMardi
Mussaurus

Or could it be the small letters? It simply disregards miniMardi?

I wanted to attach a picture but I was warned that my board attachment quota had been reached (which is funny because I have never attached anything before).

phhnguyen wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:00 pm

brinan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 11:56 am Is it possible to assign a different opening book to each competing engine?
Or even an opening book to one engine only?

Your question is a bit ambiguous thus I divide it into a few cases:

1) If you mean assigning manually (by users): YES. Every engine can be set via its parameters and options. They can use their own books. Just turn off books of GUIs to avoid affecting. Note that not every engine has its own book, e.g., Stockfish, Lc0 don't have books.

2) If you mean assigning automatically for each engine via options (BSG can auto-assign cores/threads, memory/hash for each engine): NO. Engines use too many different names/ways to set up their own books thus BSG cannot detect all. Again, not every engine has own book.

3) If you mean a GUI automatically plays opening moves, using different books for different engines: NO/YES. Some books don't have moves, e.g. PGN, EPD books (they have only chess positions): the GUI picks up randomly a position and sets up the game starts from that position. Some books such as Polyglot actually can be used like that (the GUI auto uses two books for two sides). However, it is almost no meaning to let the GUI play itself in the opening period, even using whatever. Instead, GUIs simply pick up a line (of moves) from a Polyglot book to set up a game. Thus for Banksia GUI it is NO.

AdminX wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:48 pm Cheng also is not detected correctly.

brinan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:52 pm Thanks for responding so quickly.

Below is an example to clarify.

Want to set up a game between Stockfish and Lc0.
Neither engine has an own-book UCI setting.

But, can Banksia be set to play opening moves from, say, Perfect2019.bin for Stockfish, and, say, Noomen_2Ply_Book.pgn for Lc0?

If not, please consider this post a feature request. Appreciate the work you have done.

• Shuffle tournament games Carousel

• Customizable color for highlighting boards in Playing boards dialog and for move highlights

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phhnguyen wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:58 am

brinan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:52 pm Thanks for responding so quickly.

Below is an example to clarify.

Want to set up a game between Stockfish and Lc0.
Neither engine has an own-book UCI setting.

But, can Banksia be set to play opening moves from, say, Perfect2019.bin for Stockfish, and, say, Noomen_2Ply_Book.pgn for Lc0?

If not, please consider this post a feature request. Appreciate the work you have done.

No because it is impossible.

Noomen_2Ply_Book.pgn is a set of positions thus it has no move to play (play move by move). We can pick up only a position => both engines must start from that position.

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"
    },
...

{
    "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"
    }
}