Banksia GUI released

[Cornfed]

@Alexchess - The crosstable is so small on the website...is there a way to view it better or even download it?

Nevermind - found the pgn file, downloaded it into Chessbase then used the crosstable function.
Surprized to find Dragon 2.5.1 way down at the 22nd spot.

You can enlarge the browser view. On Chrome full screen 200% is perfectly readable. 73 engines is the biggest BSG crosstable I can publish.

Yes is a big challenge for all engines to stay on top 20.

Then again...those are all mostly just Stockfish 'derivatives', right?

[Torom]

Torom I understand what you are explaining to Pham, but strangely MK13.4 on BSG is doing really well on my Superblitz... (I'll publish all the games tonight, last updated games almost ended)

Well, it is not surprising that BSG has no problem with polylot opening books in tournaments. It's not about finding the best move.

A move sequence with a certain depth is randomly searched for and played, after which the sides are swapped. This means that it does not matter how "bad" the opening is. The two games then simply end 1-0 1-0 or 0-1 0-1. If BSG played the best opening from the book in every game, all games would end 1/2 - 1/2.

If you are looking for an opening book for tournaments you can have a look at this one: https://www.sp-cc.de/uho_xxl_project.htm

[Eduard]

I wanted to register into the new Banksia forum, but I can't.
https://banksiagui.com/forums/

With this question I don't know what to enter:

Write down a term that is NOT an engine name: stockfish, lc0, komodo, frizt, crafty, fruit, nalimov, arasan, chessmaster, rybka:

Everything is wrong what I enter.

[AdminX]

Nalimov wrote a engine, but what engine do you know of named Nalimov? Must be a popup blocker or something causing you problems.

[Eduard]

It worked with a different browser, thanks!

[phhnguyen]

Just a couple of things. I find it a bit troublesome that I always have to update the current game in play once previous game has finished. I'm sure i saw a option to always switch to the present game in play some timo ago but i can't find it now.

Do you mean to auto display new tournament games? Just use the dropdown box next to the button Stop/Resume on Tournament panel (menu -> Tournaments -> Tournament).

[phhnguyen]

This assumption is not correct in reality. And I honestly can't find anyone else on the internet who assumes this. I have shown the implementation of python-chess, for example, where the move that is saved first with the highest weight is considered the best.

I have shown here the example of the M13.4 opening book, the book is sorted so that BSG plays the worst and not the best moves. This book cannot be used with BSG, but it can be used with any other polyglot implementation I know.

With M13.4 it is extreme, but the problem occurs with pretty much every book, first we found it with the Perfect2021 book, but it also occurs with Cerebellum and Chucaro. There, however, it is not as extreme, but rather on a smaller scale, for example, Italian is played instead of Spanish or the other way round.

The Polyglot is de facto standard. There’s not any official document. However, if you look into its original code as well as some discussions you can find that (as I remember, we have some posts discussing about that on this forum and HGM confirmed that). The things implemented by some apps don’t mean they become the right things!

BTW, I’m quite open minded, not insisting to any idea. Let me consider a bit and I may implement that for the next release.

[phhnguyen]

Here's a screenshot to see what I mean. As I said I tried different books and pgn files and also all posible settings.
A new clean install also shows no eco codes, always end of opening.

The feature of auto-detecting ECO works only for normal games, not tournament games. I have added it (ECO for tournaments) to my to-do list!

[phhnguyen]

@Alexchess - The crosstable is so small on the website...is there a way to view it better or even download it?

Nevermind - found the pgn file, downloaded it into Chessbase then used the crosstable function.
Surprized to find Dragon 2.5.1 way down at the 22nd spot.

You can enlarge the browser view. On Chrome full screen 200% is perfectly readable. 73 engines is the biggest BSG crosstable I can publish.

Yes is a big challenge for all engines to stay on top 20.

I have been still pondering for a while how to support large crosstables.

Just implement a new feature: export crosstable (as well as other tables) into HTML (or CSV) files. Users can open those HTML files by any browser and zoom in/out for the right sizes. They can easily edit too. Hope it is useful!

[AlexChess]

@Alexchess - The crosstable is so small on the website...is there a way to view it better or even download it?

Nevermind - found the pgn file, downloaded it into Chessbase then used the crosstable function.
Surprized to find Dragon 2.5.1 way down at the 22nd spot.

You can enlarge the browser view. On Chrome full screen 200% is perfectly readable. 73 engines is the biggest BSG crosstable I can publish.

Yes is a big challenge for all engines to stay on top 20.

I have been still pondering for a while how to support large crosstables.

Just implement a new feature: export crosstable (as well as other tables) into HTML (or CSV) files. Users can open those HTML files by any browser and zoom in/out for the right sizes. They can easily edit too. Hope it is useful!

Thank you, dear