Banksia GUI released

[huanhuan]

This issue has been fixed in versions 0.39 and 0.40, but I don't understand why it appears again in version 0.41
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and also, this feature 'Elo offset can be anchored to a player' doesn't work at Database
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[Modern Times]

• New special functions for GPU engines, a user: 1) can mark engines as GPUs 2) can set up serially CPU cores for GPU engines which may be different from ones for none-GPU ones 3) get clever tournament concurrency: it auto arranges to make sure no more than one GPU game can be played at a moment but still maximize concurrency (Fig. 2)

That is an amazing feature ! No other GUI has this to my knowledge. Presumably the tournament would get to a point where it is only the queued GPU matches that remain, so all the games from that point would be concurrency 1 ? At that point the rest of the machine is freed up for other things if you have spare CPU cores.

I think Winboard and Banksia GUIs are the only ones now that are in active development.

[ydebilloez]

Version 0.41 beta released

Thanks for the excellent program. I have noticed two issues in the set-up screen (linux). Those were already present in 0.39 I believe.

• When changing the name of an engine, by default a copy is created. The original needs to be removed manually afterwards. Adding a rename function and allowing a rename without duplicating seems a better option to me.

• When changing a UCI engine to a WB engine, the UCI configuration options remain. I have to manually remove them from the json file.

Keep up the excellent work.

[AdminX]

Hello,

Thanks for version 41. Another idea, Anyway I just was wondering if there is some way to make possible the use of Hiarcs Opening Books inside of the Banksia GUI as a optional opening book choice.

Thanks in advance.

[phhnguyen]

Thanks a lot for the report. I have been working on them

This issue has been fixed in versions 0.39 and 0.40, but I don't understand why it appears again in version 0.41
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Did you log tournament games into a database? I have realised it (logging to a database) may cause some crashes and working on that.

and also, this feature 'Elo offset can be anchored to a player' doesn't work at Database
=> http://prntscr.com/1245lf5

[phhnguyen]

• New special functions for GPU engines, a user: 1) can mark engines as GPUs 2) can set up serially CPU cores for GPU engines which may be different from ones for none-GPU ones 3) get clever tournament concurrency: it auto arranges to make sure no more than one GPU game can be played at a moment but still maximize concurrency (Fig. 2)

That is an amazing feature ! No other GUI has this to my knowledge. Presumably the tournament would get to a point where it is only the queued GPU matches that remain, so all the games from that point would be concurrency 1 ? At that point the rest of the machine is freed up for other things if you have spare CPU cores.

Yes, you’re right. We can get some benefit of concurrency only when there are both GPU and non-GPU games, but not only GPU ones.

I think Winboard and Banksia GUIs are the only ones now that are in active development.

I think the situation is much more optimistic than that. I have seen already some chess GUIs have been updated recently, for example: Eschecs, Cutechess, PyChess, Nibbler… They are even more active than WinBoard (the latest official version 4.9.1 of WinBoard is actually 4 years ago).

For Banksia GUI, I proud it is likely the one has received the biggest number of ideas, suggestions, bug-reports and encourages from users (thanks all again) . It also has the highest frequency of releasing since the time between two versions was averagely 12 days and all releases so far have contained new features

[phhnguyen]

Hello,

Thanks for version 41. Another idea, Anyway I just was wondering if there is some way to make possible the use of Hiarcs Opening Books inside of the Banksia GUI as a optional opening book choice.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the idea!

I think it’s hard since Hiarcs books are commercial and their format is a closed source.

[Nordlandia]

I have a WD My Book DUO 20TB external HDD in await for syzygy adjudication working as i would like it to do. I have all files downloaded and verified.

There is no hurry but hope that a solution to this will come soon.

[phhnguyen]

Version 0.41 beta released

Thanks for the excellent program. I have noticed two issues in the set-up screen (linux). Those were already present in 0.39 I believe.

• When changing the name of an engine, by default a copy is created. The original needs to be removed manually afterwards. Adding a rename function and allowing a rename without duplicating seems a better option to me.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

By design, a user can edit an existing engine from Settings just by double-clicking on the field he wants and change its name, path, working path... without making a copy. However, I make recently the mistake to remove the editable flag of that table. I have fixed that for the next release

• When changing a UCI engine to a WB engine, the UCI configuration options remain. I have to manually remove them from the json file.

Keep up the excellent work.

If you want to change an engine from using protocol UCI to WB, it is better to remove it first. You don't have to remove it manually. Just select the engine and click on the button with the icon minus (-) on top. After all, select WB protocol from Add Engine dialog.

[phhnguyen]

I have a WD My Book DUO 20TB external HDD in await for syzygy adjudication working as i would like it to do. I have all files downloaded and verified.

There is no hurry but hope that a solution to this will come soon.

Wow, so huge HDD!!! Is that a SSD one? I have no patience to download all Syzygy 7 men anyway

If you could help, please test BSG with adjudication of 7 men. I have never tested that ability myself. Thanks