The tournament editor has a function to swap sides for all players. Did you try it? Perhaps, to fulfill your need, just reset all games, then swap sides for all players. You may make a copy of the tournament, do that then merge it back to the original one if you want to keep old games.AlexChess wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:04 am In BSG 0.50 could you also add a feature to modify settings of a Running Tournament? (Rounds number, game time controls, draw/lose & tablebase settings) I would like to continue the same tournament playing all games with reverse colors.
PS: About to complete my 1431 games, then I'll rename BSG config settings folder to test if it starts again.
Best regards, Alex
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Hi phhnguyen
If we play a game till to 'Mate', the last 3 moves are too fast, so we can't clearly see those 3 last moves, and suddenly on the board appears the score "1-0 or 0-1".
I mean, the duration of each move from the start to 'Mate' should be the same.
You can experiment with playing one game till 'Mate', and you'll see what I mean.
Thank you...

If we play a game till to 'Mate', the last 3 moves are too fast, so we can't clearly see those 3 last moves, and suddenly on the board appears the score "1-0 or 0-1".
I mean, the duration of each move from the start to 'Mate' should be the same.
You can experiment with playing one game till 'Mate', and you'll see what I mean.
Thank you...
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Thanks for the feedbacks.
It is fixed for the next release.huanhuan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:54 am I am so touched that you still remember me, and even know my country. For that I am very grateful![]()
By the way, my eyesight is a bit disturbed by this => https://prnt.sc/19zynp2
The number "0" is truncated in square d5. That number "0" should still appear fully, but maybe the Transparency can be set so that it doesn't completely overlap the square d5. I think you know better what I mean.
Thank you...
In the next release, BSG will make it look a bit better but won't solve it completely. The problem is that that may happen at the endgames of the tournament and demo games and those games could be finished already and BSG usually tries to release them from resources ASAP.huanhuan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:12 am Hi phhnguyen![]()
If we play a game till to 'Mate', the last 3 moves are too fast, so we can't clearly see those 3 last moves, and suddenly on the board appears the score "1-0 or 0-1".
I mean, the duration of each move from the start to 'Mate' should be the same.
You can experiment with playing one game till 'Mate', and you'll see what I mean.
Thank you...
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I have an issue with a buggy engine and banksia. While developing the new version of my engine, it does something wrong when game end (draw/mate) is approaching. Unfortunately, banksia reacts strangely to it and just quits. Under Linux, the engines active stay in memory and banksia quits. Under win10-64, I found some crash registered in ucrt....dll. unfortunately, no logs are generated.
Problem seems to be related to engine returning uci score mate in 2 while it is simply mate.
My question, can we turn on debug logging? (i.e. arena)
On Linux, in some positions, the offending engine does work fine in arena and cutechess-cli but does break in the debugger as well... So it is not necessarily a banksia issue.
Problem seems to be related to engine returning uci score mate in 2 while it is simply mate.
My question, can we turn on debug logging? (i.e. arena)
On Linux, in some positions, the offending engine does work fine in arena and cutechess-cli but does break in the debugger as well... So it is not necessarily a banksia issue.
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Hi Pham!phhnguyen wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:55 amThe tournament editor has a function to swap sides for all players. Did you try it? Perhaps, to fulfill your need, just reset all games, then swap sides for all players. You may make a copy of the tournament, do that then merge it back to the original one if you want to keep old games.AlexChess wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:04 am In BSG 0.50 could you also add a feature to modify settings of a Running Tournament? (Rounds number, game time controls, draw/lose & tablebase settings) I would like to continue the same tournament playing all games with reverse colors.
PS: About to complete my 1431 games, then I'll rename BSG config settings folder to test if it starts again.
Best regards, Alex
How can I force BSG to save running tournament data? My last backup is only about the old tournament, not the actual 1431 games tournament, so I fear to make modifications on the json files.

Best regards, Alex
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What does "debug logging" mean?ydebilloez wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 11:40 am I have an issue with a buggy engine and banksia. While developing the new version of my engine, it does something wrong when game end (draw/mate) is approaching. Unfortunately, banksia reacts strangely to it and just quits. Under Linux, the engines active stay in memory and banksia quits. Under win10-64, I found some crash registered in ucrt....dll. unfortunately, no logs are generated.
Problem seems to be related to engine returning uci score mate in 2 while it is simply mate.
My question, can we turn on debug logging? (i.e. arena)
On Linux, in some positions, the offending engine does work fine in arena and cutechess-cli but does break in the debugger as well... So it is not necessarily a banksia issue.
If you mean to log all input-output between engines and BSG, yes, we have a logging system.
For normal game, go menu->File->Settings ->Engin tab. In the bottom, you will see the line Engine log. Tick the box and enter a path to write out.
For the tournament, when creating you will see the button Setup in the "Log" line. Click on that to set up the log file.
Another way: BSG has a panel named "Engine log" to display everything between engines and BSG. Open it via menu -> Windows -> Docks -> Engine log. Whenever you want all or some text, just mark that text and then right-click to open a popup menu and copy that text into the clipboard.
Good luck and have fun with your engine

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Hey, I think I found a bug with the opening books. When I look at the book, it prefers the Spanish game over the Italian, not with the same value either. But when I use the book on the Lichess Bot, Banksia always plays the Italian game.
The "Top" value in the settings is set to 0%.

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https://lichess.org/OZIMri1v/white#5
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The "Top" value in the settings is set to 0%.

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How long do we need to wait for extreme chess analysis to be back?
With version 0.50?
I would like to use it even it is not perfect.
I need ECA as a good reason to buy the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1X chip.
With version 0.50?
I would like to use it even it is not perfect.
I need ECA as a good reason to buy the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1X chip.
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AlexChess wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 11:58 amHi Pham!phhnguyen wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:55 amThe tournament editor has a function to swap sides for all players. Did you try it? Perhaps, to fulfill your need, just reset all games, then swap sides for all players. You may make a copy of the tournament, do that then merge it back to the original one if you want to keep old games.AlexChess wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:04 am In BSG 0.50 could you also add a feature to modify settings of a Running Tournament? (Rounds number, game time controls, draw/lose & tablebase settings) I would like to continue the same tournament playing all games with reverse colors.
PS: About to complete my 1431 games, then I'll rename BSG config settings folder to test if it starts again.
Best regards, Alex
How can I force BSG to save running tournament data? My last backup is only about the old tournament, not the actual 1431 games tournament, so I fear to make modifications on the json files.
Best regards, Alex
No, BSG doesn't have that function.
However, you may do a trick as following steps:
- From the Tournament panel (the one that lists all tournament games, usually on the right side), right-click for popup-menu, click on the item Edit JSON
- There is a dialog box with JSON content. That data has been created from "live" data of the tournament
- Just copy the text and save it somewhere. It could be considered a backup of the file banksiaplaying.json
FYI, I have been working on a recovery system that could help to check and recover tournaments in an easy and visual way. Hope that the corrupted data become less nightmare for us

BTW, it is better if you could divide your tournaments into multi-smaller ones. Whenever you need, just merge them into a large one and still keep small ones as main data.
I have been considering a function to generate a cross table, score/Elo for engines from multi tournaments.
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Thanks for using that function. I was a bit worried if there are too few users who need that

I have been working on that and definitely it will be back with the next release (about next week).
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