Image database for Banksia. How difficult would it be to create an image database for Banksia to use that contains images of GMs, IMs, FMs, exedra if the Community pitched in to help? Then when viewing Live PGNs or Live Games via Banksia it would reference this database and display images of the players when their names are referenced. Or maybe just set up an infrastructure where the user could create their own image database that banksia would use? I think with help with the community the data could be collected in very little time.
PS: I know I have dreams of playing like Giri or Carlsen, but this is going to far!
Great idea even if you have delusions of grandeur.
phhnguyen wrote: ↑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:
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
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.
Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:24 pm
How do I install a java engine under Banksia?
I have managed to make Java back to work on my machine. Below is the way I install a Java engine. All parameters are in init strings box, each param in one line
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Modern Times wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:59 am
I believe so, from my reading of the perl scripts that do the pgn checking and validation, time is being checked as a wildcard so timeout should be picked up. I'll check to be sure.
Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:14 pm
There is still something I do not understand about tournament play.
When I choose gauntlet, then carousel, the gauntlet engine plays one game against all the others then another round etc., as I would expect. However, all games are marked as Round 1, and only the board number changes.
I consider a round a block of games in which the gauntlet engine plays 1 game against each of the opponents. THe number of rounds is equal to the number of games the main engine plays against one particular opponent.
When I choose gauntlet but select 'None' at shuffle, the gauntlet engine plays all its games against opponent 1 before taking on a new opponent. That's again OK but a again all games are marked as Round 1, while Board goes from 1 to the number of games the gauntlet engine is to play against one particular opponent.
So it seems to me that the concept of 'round' is different for you and me, and my guess is that what you call Board is the number of the game in the tournament sequentially.
Thanks for the idea!
It is so good and logical. However, there are still somethings we have to consider: if the game is sorted in some ways, say randomly, the round numbers will be so messy (random) and become almost useless. Thought?
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AdminX wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:23 am
Bug Report:
GUI crashing when using FICS. (Happens when trying to view or seek a game)
Update:
I discovered the cause of the problem. I have multiple tabs open in one of my dock layouts. Under the 'local network' was checked to auto connect. Once I unchecked it and went back to the FICS tab everything worked fine.
Phew! Thanks
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Image database for Banksia. How difficult would it be to create an image database for Banksia to use that contains images of GMs, IMs, FMs, exedra if the Community pitched in to help? Then when viewing Live PGNs or Live Games via Banksia it would reference this database and display images of the players when their names are referenced. Or maybe just set up an infrastructure where the user could create their own image database that banksia would use? I think with help with the community the data could be collected in very little time.
PS: I know I have dreams of playing like Giri or Carlsen, but this is going to far!
That is doable in terms of technique. However, one we work on that, there are many things to be considered such as having standardized names, elos, countries, extra info... of players, complicated systems/dialogs to edit and show. Perhaps, it is more suitable for database software/website than a chess GUI.
BTW, I have added your suggestion into my TODO list
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Chessqueen wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 4:26 pmI downloaded Banksia GUI for Windows 64, clicked on the Banksia Gui Application 19,051 Kb and it just froze
Sorry to hear that!
Could you provide me some more information: what is your computer (CPU, RAM)? Windows? Have you ever run BSG before (just to check if it is affected by old settings)? Thanks a lot for any help.
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phhnguyen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:56 amIt is so good and logical. However, there are still somethings we have to consider: if the game is sorted in some ways, say randomly, the round numbers will be so messy (random) and become almost useless. Thought?
I'm not expert on that but I think round number is to differentiate between games played by the same pair.
