Banksia GUI released

[Guenther]

If I load a pgn file it only shows the first game (and here only the moves).
There is no game list and no way to select another game from that game file?.

I noticed also the interesting behaviour that if it finds one of the players names in the engines.json
it loads them when opening a pgn. Is this intended?

There is also a bug with the comments one or two plies off (saw both for various pgn files), when showing the (only) game from a pgn file.

Code: Select all

1. e4 {book} c5 {book}
2. Nf3 {+0.44/16 2.0} e6 {-0.37/13 3.3}

http://rwbc-chess.de/clip/Zwischenablage01.png

[phhnguyen]

Hello Nguyen,

A possible bug.

1) menu/tools/Download/Show/games databases selected
2) open the first gm2001's game for display
3) execute various moves
4) resize the window for enlarge the board
5) execute a few more moves

and... suddenly Banksia program (0.12) exit

I have fixed for some bugs for the next version 0.13, hope it can solve that crash. Please help us to test with new version.

I also suggest allowing change the font size/color in dock window MOVES (mouse right click) for eyes sake

Finally, congrats for your fine job.

Hafni

Thanks for the suggestion => added to my TODO list

[phhnguyen]

If I load a pgn file it only shows the first game (and here only the moves).
There is no game list and no way to select another game from that game file?.

That feature is at the top of my TODO list. I will implement soon.

I noticed also the interesting behaviour that if it finds one of the players names in the engines.json
it loads them when opening a pgn. Is this intended?

Yes, when loading a game, BSG tries to match the names of players to the engine list. If a name is matched, the engine will be loaded, initialized to be ready to play.

There is also a bug with the comments one or two plies off (saw both for various pgn files), when showing the (only) game from a pgn file.

Code: Select all

1. e4 {book} c5 {book}
2. Nf3 {+0.44/16 2.0} e6 {-0.37/13 3.3}

http://rwbc-chess.de/clip/Zwischenablage01.png

I am not clear, can you tell more about the bug? If you want to show/hide comments, go to Settings->General tab, tick/untick "comments" in Move list.

[phhnguyen]

Version 0.13 released


1) Bugs fixed: almost all known bugs so far, including (serious ones):
- Crashed when creating a database and/or open games from databases in some systems
- Could not parse some PGN games
- Ruled O-O+ and O-O-O+ as illegal moves
- Did not swap multi-timers when changing engines’ sides in tournaments


2) Some small improvements/adjustments

3) New features:
- Open PGN games from URLs
- Analyze games using multi engines (just select multi engines as bellow illustration)

[Guenther]

If I load a pgn file it only shows the first game (and here only the moves).
There is no game list and no way to select another game from that game file?.

That feature is at the top of my TODO list. I will implement soon.

I noticed also the interesting behaviour that if it finds one of the players names in the engines.json
it loads them when opening a pgn. Is this intended?

Yes, when loading a game, BSG tries to match the names of players to the engine list. If a name is matched, the engine will be loaded, initialized to be ready to play.

There is also a bug with the comments one or two plies off (saw both for various pgn files), when showing the (only) game from a pgn file.

Code: Select all

1. e4 {book} c5 {book}
2. Nf3 {+0.44/16 2.0} e6 {-0.37/13 3.3}

I am not clear, can you tell more about the bug? If you want to show/hide comments, go to Settings->General tab, tick/untick "comments" in Move list.

If you look again at the full size image and compare to the original pgn you'll see that the comments are attached
to the wrong moves, they are one or two plies off. The given example is one ply off and the eval/depth of White move 2
is given to Black move 2 and so on.

[phhnguyen]

If you look again at the full size image and compare to the original pgn you'll see that the comments are attached
to the wrong moves, they are one or two plies off. The given example is one ply off and the eval/depth of White move 2
is given to Black move 2 and so on.

Thanks a lot for the report. That bug is fixed for today's release (ver 0.13)

[Gabor Szots]

I am always led to version 3.0. Is this not the right URL: https://banksiagui.com/preview-versions/?

[supersharp77]

Version 0.13 released


1) Bugs fixed: almost all known bugs so far, including (serious ones):
- Crashed when creating a database and/or open games from databases in some systems
- Could not parse some PGN games
- Ruled O-O+ and O-O-O+ as illegal moves
- Did not swap multi-timers when changing engines’ sides in tournaments


2) Some small improvements/adjustments

3) New features:
- Open PGN games from URLs
- Analyze games using multi engines (just select multi engines as bellow illustration)

14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

[BrendanJNorman]

Version 0.13 released


1) Bugs fixed: almost all known bugs so far, including (serious ones):
- Crashed when creating a database and/or open games from databases in some systems
- Could not parse some PGN games
- Ruled O-O+ and O-O-O+ as illegal moves
- Did not swap multi-timers when changing engines’ sides in tournaments


2) Some small improvements/adjustments

3) New features:
- Open PGN games from URLs
- Analyze games using multi engines (just select multi engines as bellow illustration)

14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

The speed that this guy is releasing is breath-taking - I really wish we could support him somehow.

I'm going to review Banksia on my website, so that'll get him a ton of new users, but still...

This GUI is going to the the dominant one for computer chess by end of 2020, I have no doubts.

Love it.



Really impressive work.

[phhnguyen]

I am always led to version 3.0. Is this not the right URL: https://banksiagui.com/preview-versions/?

Yes, it is still alpha and released unofficially via that link. I will make half-officially releases soon