Banksia GUI released

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!

I'm using BSG epd/fen test suite. Very nice and complete, but I have a feature request:

Positions on the chessboard are shown only when you select a row with a test. Could you please focus automatically on each row with the currently analyzed position, and relative position?



Thank you!
Best regards, Alex

[AdminX]

I like this even better with the grey board!

[AlexChess]

I like this even better with the grey board!

Nice. It's wonderful that everyone can completely transform this gui as he likes.

[Wilhelm]

Hi Pham,
there is a small problem with the Chesstiger7000.1 engine. Sometimes it comes to a time error. When Chesstiger runs the clock down to zero sometimes this happens, around 1 game in 30. I didn't get this in CB- or Arena GUI. Is there a small time bonus when the first time control ends? eg a half second or so? Can you take a look at this? Thanks!

Cheers William

[Uri Blass]

For some reason after having books I have problems to run a tournament with no book in normal chess.
The interface insist of using one of my books even if I do not put v in the opening

The only way I found to make a tournament with no book is simply asking the interface to remove all the books that I have(of course I can later add them again)

[Uri Blass]

I wonder if there is a way to copy the cross table of a tournament.

I made a tournament between stockfish depth 5,depth 6.depth 7,depth 8,depth 9

Results are:
Depth 9:7.5
Depth 8:6.5
Depth 7:3.5
Depth 6:2
Depth 5:0.5

Now I would like to add participants to the tournament when every new participant is going to play all previous participants twice with white and black so later I can get a new cross table and I wonder if it is possible to do it.

I basically duplicated stockfish 5 times to make the tournament and used 5 different time id.

I guess that I can make a gauntlet but I do not see how I can have 6 different time controls so I can only make a gauntlet of Stockfish depth 10 against 4 players out of 5.

[Torom]

Hey Pham, I need to go back to our discussion regarding the Polyglot move order. I don't think your interpretation of the Polyglot format is correct. I have tried the M13.4 book, these books are among the strongest in competitions like this: https://sites.google.com/site/computers ... book-cs-55

And now please look at the order in which the moves are stored:



That is almost exactly descending to the corresponding weight. I really think the moves should be played according to their weight and not according to their position in the book.

[phhnguyen]

Hey, I asked earlier if there is a possibility to use chessdb as an opening book for Lichess games. In the meantime, the official Lichess bot has this function: https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess- ... dd532fc79c

It would be great if you could think about adding this function to Banksia, because now with Banksia you might have a disadvantage compared to the standard bot.

In addition, the standard bot now also supports online EGTB from Lichess and chessdb, I personally don't find this function very important.

BSG can use chessdb for reference/studying but not for playing. I’m not sure the advantage if other bots could use that for playing. Online servers typically have latency and not realisable. It means every opening move has to spend extra time, sometimes seconds, for waiting replies from that server first. That time is significant for fast games.

Similar to Syzygy. I know chessdb supports 7 men when almost we all may have maximum 6 men. However, engines can use that local 6 men for computing, increasing their strengths but not that online server. On other hand, BSG can use Syzygy for adjudication but not in the case of Lichess bots (Lichess server rules the game but BSG). BSG can make moves based on Syzygy on behalf of engines but the benefit is almost zero.

Using local books and Syzygy users can save time and headache. There’s an exception if that opening book is much better than other books, a kind of much-have, worth for waiting time but so far I don’t see any mention about that.

BTW, I may implement it (auto playing opening moves by chessdb) in coming time thus users can have more choices anyway.

[phhnguyen]

Hi Pham,
there is a small problem with the Chesstiger7000.1 engine. Sometimes it comes to a time error. When Chesstiger runs the clock down to zero sometimes this happens, around 1 game in 30. I didn't get this in CB- or Arena GUI. Is there a small time bonus when the first time control ends? eg a half second or so? Can you take a look at this? Thanks!

Cheers William

"Margin per move" is the additional time for which BSG waits before ruling the game. For move time timer, that is a "bonus" period for an engine. But for a normal timer, BSG will count it to the time left thus no bonous.

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!

All ok until now with tournament features