Banksia GUI released

[phhnguyen]

Version 0.43 beta released

Fixed bugs:

• After loading from storage, tournaments don’t arrange correctly the concurrency of GPU games

• A synch issue may happen when displaying very fast games

• Reinforced code for Lichess bots

• Some small bugs

Some small improvements/adjustments such as improving Swiss pairing

New features:

• Demo: create a simple, infinite, only-one concurrent tournament for one or multiple engines. It’s good for watching and/or making some quick tournaments for testing some new engines

• New piece graphics (Kosal by Philatype)

Fig. New features: Kosal pieces and the demo tournament

[AlexChess]

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi phhnguyen,
we continue to give feedbacks and suggestions because we like BanksiaGui very much

-Openings book settings aren't easy to understand, also with tooltips. I'm trying to get maximum variety of openings type, eg: Sicilian, Ruy Lopez, King Indian, Queen's gambit, Bird, English... not selecting random moves but a little wider choice instead of only the best move. Often it plays exactly the same opening for all the engines...

Polyglot can be used with random only, you may modify the way BSG picks an opening: the best, totally random, or random in the top best (with percentage).

If you want matches with all openings, find or create PGN or EDP opening books. Then BSG can pick up all lines in sequence (with or without shuffle).

-Could you enlarge by default the tab with the names of engines while I create a new tournament?

Thank you!
Best regards, AlexChess

BSG needs to keep some boxes in reasonable sizes to support someones with small screens.

However, you may drag borders/corners of the dialog to enlarge the whole dialog. BSG will remember the new dialog sizes for the next time. You may also drag some horizontal/vertical bars inside the dialog and/or horizontal lines of engine tables to enlarge what you want.



Some bars, lines could be dragged to change sizes.

Thank you!

[JohnW]

When I select to add all engines in a main folder the folder icon prompts me to add a single file and not a folder.

[huanhuan]

Please add an option so that the users can place the "Move" box under the Board.
=> https://postimg.cc/4nbgrmB9

Thank you,

[Maarten Claessens]

First, thank you for developing Banksia.
However, I would like to point out the following issue with Winboad-engines:
When ticking "Auto play opening book moves" in Book/Egtb-settings, Banksia sends only the white moves to the engine playing white and the black moves to te engine playing black. See this part of the Engine Log for the openingline 1.e3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.d4...:

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Olithink < xboard
Olithink < protover 2
WaDuuttie < xboard
WaDuuttie < protover 2

...<snip>...

Olithink < force
Olithink < e2e3
WaDuuttie < force
WaDuuttie < usermove d7d5
Olithink < force
Olithink < c2c4
Olithink > Illegal move: c2c4 

WaDuuttie > Error (illegal move): d7d5
WaDuuttie < force
WaDuuttie < usermove e7e6

I guess this is easy to fix.

[ernest]

Thanks for the feature requests

Hi phhnguyen !

Please note again that Banksia from the App Store no longer works correctly with the latest iOS/iPadOS

See http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... 69#p892369
and http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... 78#p892378

[herO]

Version 0.43 beta released

Fixed bugs:

• After loading from storage, tournaments don’t arrange correctly the concurrency of GPU games

• A synch issue may happen when displaying very fast games

• Reinforced code for Lichess bots

• Some small bugs

Some small improvements/adjustments such as improving Swiss pairing

New features:

• Demo: create a simple, infinite, only-one concurrent tournament for one or multiple engines. It’s good for watching and/or making some quick tournaments for testing some new engines

• New piece graphics (Kosal by Philatype)

Fig. New features: Kosal pieces and the demo tournament

Lichess bot feature does not work correctly. Engines still do not play any moves when my engine starts with black pieces. I do not see any "newucigame" command in the log. Could you please tell me how can I help you with this issue? Are there some advanced logs for this?

[AdminX]

Version 0.43 beta released

Fixed bugs:

• After loading from storage, tournaments don’t arrange correctly the concurrency of GPU games

• A synch issue may happen when displaying very fast games

• Reinforced code for Lichess bots

• Some small bugs

Some small improvements/adjustments such as improving Swiss pairing

New features:

• Demo: create a simple, infinite, only-one concurrent tournament for one or multiple engines. It’s good for watching and/or making some quick tournaments for testing some new engines

• New piece graphics (Kosal by Philatype)

Fig. New features: Kosal pieces and the demo tournament

Lichess bot feature does not work correctly. Engines still do not play any moves when my engine starts with black pieces. I do not see any "newucigame" command in the log. Could you please tell me how can I help you with this issue? Are there some advanced logs for this?

Strange, they (NeuralAbyss) have been working correctly over here. The only problem I have seen is with one engine opponent "FlamingDragon_9000", I've noticed that only when playing that engine near the end of our games it seems I keep getting either 1-0 or 0-1 statements showing the game is over when it is not. I've had to be at the board and viewing the game when it is in progress and had to go offline and quickly back online for the game to resume.

This can be seen here at the 9:15 mark:

[phhnguyen]

Lichess bot feature does not work correctly. Engines still do not play any moves when my engine starts with black pieces. I do not see any "newucigame" command in the log. Could you please tell me how can I help you with this issue? Are there some advanced logs for this?

Very strange too and I can't reproduce.

Can you try:
1) Set hash to a small size, say, 2 or 16 only, instead of 2048. If the message (from your previous post) from Deep HIARCS correct, it must take all your physical memory + HDD, let nothing left for other programs. Look like Deep HIARCS uses unit GB, instead of the popular MB for Hash.

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11:15:10 Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC> info string Hash request=2097152Mb allocated=2097152Mb

2) Replace your engine with other ones, say, Stockfish 13 (if 1 still doesn't work)

Please inform us result. Thanks

[phhnguyen]

My new tutorial video about using BanksiaGUI as a Lichess Bot manager. It can make everything be easy, visual, automatic. It could play multi-bots, multi-games. The challenge function can keep bots playing all the time. Users can enjoy watching games, plus computing info with highly customizable, controllable everything.