Banksia GUI released

[AdminX]

I can you appreciate beauty of those figurine fonts now!

PS: I think I have to give it to Arial for the win!

[AdminX]

The only thing else I can think of is to improve game annotation so that is is more human readable with comments like 'white is better' or 'black has a serious attack'.

[Wilhelm]

Many thanks for the new version!
For me there is only one thing missing, material balance in the annotation

[AdminX]

I can appreciate the beauty of those figurine fonts now!

PS: I think I have to give it to Arial for the win!

Updated with corrected statement!

[Eduard]

I use Arial, also with other GUIs. Thanks.

*Engine info: copy values into clipboard (using the pop-up menu or a button in the top right corner)

Thanks. This is important so that you can copy analyzes into the forum.

[Eduard]

I have one more wish. It would be nice if when copying the analysis, the position FEN would also be copied at the same time. An analysis without a position is pointless. Currently you have to copy and paste FEN separately. But that's problematic when you play on Lichess. By the time I have copied the analysis, the current position in the game has already changed and the copied FEN string is wrong. Therefore, both must be copied at the same time.

Just tested on Lichess.

[ydebilloez]

Dear Pham,

Thanks for the release. It supports xboard options now.
In UCI, it seems to ignore some of the options I pass as follows while it takes the same kind of options from Stockfish.

See log. Only Alg and Eval are being shown in BanksiaGUI while UCI_ShowCurrLine is not shown.

Thanks,

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15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)< uci
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> belofte>
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> id name Belofte 2.1.4 (u)
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> id author Yves De Billoez
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name Alg type combo default AB var Random var StaticEval var BruteForce var SearchIterativeBF var AB var ABFS var ABFH
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name Eval type combo default PositionalBoard var PiecesOnly var StaticBoard var PositionalBoard
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name UCI_ShowCurrLine type check default false
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name UCI_EngineAbout type string default Belofte 2.1.4 by Yves De Billoez 2004-2021, Released under the GNU GPL v2 license
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> uciok
... lines cut ...
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)< uci
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> Stockfish 11 64 by T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> id name Stockfish 11 64
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> id author T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> option name Debug Log File type string default
... lines cut ...
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> option name SyzygyProbeLimit type spin default 7 min 0 max 7
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> uciok

[Wilhelm]

Hi Pham,
the winboard engines are missing in the test positions window.
Engines with wb2uci adapter keep hanging after around 17 positions when using a time control of xx Sec/move.
I tried some different settings in the wb2uci.eng file but without luck. Using standard time control then it is working!?
Any idea what setting is needed?
Thanks!

[Wilhelm]

one more thing. Would it be possible to see the average time to find the right move on the result page?

The test suite function itself is amazing. Running the Rapid engine test for 50 engines was finished in around one hour!!!

[phhnguyen]

Dear Pham,

Thanks for the release. It supports xboard options now.
In UCI, it seems to ignore some of the options I pass as follows while it takes the same kind of options from Stockfish.

See log. Only Alg and Eval are being shown in BanksiaGUI while UCI_ShowCurrLine is not shown.

Thanks,

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15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)< uci
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> belofte>
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> id name Belofte 2.1.4 (u)
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> id author Yves De Billoez
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name Alg type combo default AB var Random var StaticEval var BruteForce var SearchIterativeBF var AB var ABFS var ABFH
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name Eval type combo default PositionalBoard var PiecesOnly var StaticBoard var PositionalBoard
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name UCI_ShowCurrLine type check default false
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> option name UCI_EngineAbout type string default Belofte 2.1.4 by Yves De Billoez 2004-2021, Released under the GNU GPL v2 license
15:09:18 Belofte 2.1.4 (u)> uciok
... lines cut ...
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)< uci
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> Stockfish 11 64 by T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> id name Stockfish 11 64
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> id author T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> option name Debug Log File type string default
... lines cut ...
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> option name SyzygyProbeLimit type spin default 7 min 0 max 7
15:26:09 Stockfish 11 (1500)> uciok

Options with the prefix UCI_ are special ones. They require chess GUIs understanding and doing some specific things to support. If chess GUIs don't support (quote from UCI protocol document):

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If the GUI get an unknown Option with the prefix "UCI_", it should just ignore it and not display it in the engine's options dialog.

So far, BSG supports the below UCI_-prefix options:

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uci_infojson, uci_showwdl, uci_wdlinfo, uci_limitstrength, uci_elo, uci_chess960, uci_variant, uci_showmovesleft

I don't know about those options (UCI_ShowCurrLine, UCI_EngineAbout) either. I may support them if you describe what they are, their purposes, what specific actions you expect from GUIs to support them.