Banksia GUI released

[AdminX]

Maybe I do something wrong.

What is the application that you run when you start Benksia.

I run application with the name BanksiaGUI that is 24708 mbytes by clicking twice on it.

It is inside my BanksiaGui-0.50-win64 folder

The default settings location should be saved at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI. However this can be changed



Then change path to your desired location.

[Wilhelm]

Rightclick the exe and try to "run as Administrator". Maybe there is a problem with rights on your user folder.

[AlexChess]

Uri don't give up because BanksiaGUI 0.51 will fix some residual glitches, but already is perfectly usable and you can freely configure it as you desire. Every parameter can be changed. For me it's the best chess GUI ever for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and iPadOS!



Simply ask about your issues directly to Pham, here. He kindly heard all your suggestions, feature and bugfixes requests!

Best regards, Alex

[Uri Blass]

Maybe I do something wrong.

What is the application that you run when you start Benksia.

I run application with the name BanksiaGUI that is 24708 mbytes by clicking twice on it.

It is inside my BanksiaGui-0.50-win64 folder

The default settings location should be saved at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI. However this can be changed



Then change path to your desired location.

I can see this screen but I do not see why changing the path should help me.

My default setting is
C:\Users\אורי\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI\

I wonder if the problem is having hebrew letters after Users
Note that I do not have problems of adding engines in different gui's like arena or cutechess and they do not forget engines that I add

[phhnguyen]

Maybe I do something wrong.

What is the application that you run when you start Benksia.

I run application with the name BanksiaGUI that is 24708 mbytes by clicking twice on it.

It is inside my BanksiaGui-0.50-win64 folder

The default settings location should be saved at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI. However this can be changed



Then change path to your desired location.

I can see this screen but I do not see why changing the path should help me.

My default setting is
C:\Users\אורי\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI\

I wonder if the problem is having hebrew letters after Users
Note that I do not have problems of adding engines in different gui's like arena or cutechess and they do not forget engines that I add

Thank you for the report!

Can you help to check if BSG created its data files? Typically BSG saves the info about engines and their configurations in the file named banksiaengine.json in its setting/config folder (the folder you quoted above). If it is existent, you may open it to view (by any text editor - just help us to verify the content). It should say something about the installed engine.

I have been trying to reproduce that error anyway.

[Torom]

Hey, sorry for not getting back to you. Banksia now works great as a Lichess bot. There are no more problems with incorrectly judged games.

However, I have now noticed a bug where Banksia sometimes leaves engine instances open. These sometimes seem to be asleep, then they only occupy RAM, but sometimes these instances are still searching, which then translates into an effective halving of the nodes/s.

I have not yet been able to reproduce the error reliably, but it now occurs quite often. I use Banksia on Linux.

[phhnguyen]

I can see this screen but I do not see why changing the path should help me.

My default setting is
C:\Users\אורי\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI\

I wonder if the problem is having hebrew letters after Users
Note that I do not have problems of adding engines in different gui's like arena or cutechess and they do not forget engines that I add

I could reproduce the bug (it turns out, BSG saves data into some temp files first, work well, then rename those files into JSON extension - I have used a rename function from the library which doesn't work with Unicode). Fixed and will release a new binary soon.

PS: the fastest way to install an engine into BSG is to drag the runnable file then drop it into BSG.

[phhnguyen]

Hey, sorry for not getting back to you. Banksia now works great as a Lichess bot. There are no more problems with incorrectly judged games.

Very good news, thank you!

However, I have now noticed a bug where Banksia sometimes leaves engine instances open. These sometimes seem to be asleep, then they only occupy RAM, but sometimes these instances are still searching, which then translates into an effective halving of the nodes/s.

I have not yet been able to reproduce the error reliably, but it now occurs quite often. I use Banksia on Linux.

It is one of the hardest problems since that is very hard to reproduce and I have attempted to fix it some times already. That doesn't happen to all engines but some of them. They refuse to quit even BSG tries several ways to stop, quit, terminate, kill them. If that is not your engine, consider changing to use another engine.

I just guess that some of the trouble engines may resist quitting to write down some things, thus mess up with the system. I will come back to that issue soon.

[Torom]

However, I have now noticed a bug where Banksia sometimes leaves engine instances open. These sometimes seem to be asleep, then they only occupy RAM, but sometimes these instances are still searching, which then translates into an effective halving of the nodes/s.

I have not yet been able to reproduce the error reliably, but it now occurs quite often. I use Banksia on Linux.

It is one of the hardest problems since that is very hard to reproduce and I have attempted to fix it some times already. That doesn't happen to all engines but some of them. They refuse to quit even BSG tries several ways to stop, quit, terminate, kill them. If that is not your engine, consider changing to use another engine.

I just guess that some of the trouble engines may resist quitting to write down some things, thus mess up with the system. I will come back to that issue soon.

Oh, I forgot to mention which engine it is. I have the problem with Stockfish. So just switching to another engine is not really an option.

If I can help in any way to narrow down the error, let me know. The error occurs very often, so it is not a problem to observe it.

[Uri Blass]

I can see this screen but I do not see why changing the path should help me.

My default setting is
C:\Users\אורי\AppData\Roaming\BanksiaGUI\

I wonder if the problem is having hebrew letters after Users
Note that I do not have problems of adding engines in different gui's like arena or cutechess and they do not forget engines that I add

I could reproduce the bug (it turns out, BSG saves data into some temp files first, work well, then rename those files into JSON extension - I have used a rename function from the library which doesn't work with Unicode). Fixed and will release a new binary soon.

PS: the fastest way to install an engine into BSG is to drag the runnable file then drop it into BSG.

Thanks

The content of the the banskiaengine.json does not include something about the engines that I added(and I only can see it in the tmp file
and I wonder if it is related to the hebrew letters in the destination file of the engine(I did not try to have an engine simply in C to check if it remember the installed engine and after you reproduced the bug maybe there is no need to do it and I will see if the update works later).

This is the content of the banskiaengine.json file:

{
"base" : {
"urls" : [
"https://banksiagui.com/",
"https://softgaroo.com/"
]
},

"engines" : [
{
"os": "mac",
"name": "Crafty",
"type": "wb",
"ver" : "25.3",
"size": 191743,
"elo": "2600",
"main": "crafty",
"url" : "dl/crafty-25_3-mac.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Crafty",
"type": "wb",
"ver" : "25.3",
"size": 281977,
"elo": "2600",
"main": "crafty25.3.exe",
"url" : "dl/crafty-25_3-win.zip"
},
{
"os": "mac",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "12",
"size": 4200000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-12.1.1-64-BMI2-osx",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-12.zip"
},
{
"os": "mac",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "11",
"size": 1800000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-11.01-64-osx",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-10.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "12",
"size": 4200000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-12.1.1-64bit-bmi2.exe",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-12.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "10",
"size": 1800000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-10-64bit.exe",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-10.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "11",
"size": 1800000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-11.01-64bit.exe",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-11.zip"
},
{
"os": "linux",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "12",
"size": 4200000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-12.1.1-linux-bmi2",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-12.zip"
},
{
"os": "linux",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "10",
"size": 1800000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-10-linux",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-10.zip"
},
{
"os": "linux",
"name": "Komodo",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "11",
"size": 1800000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "komodo-11.01-linux",
"url" : "https://komodochess.com/pub/komodo-11.zip"
},

{
"os": "mac",
"name": "Lc0",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "0.23",
"size": 66825285,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "lc0",
"url" : "dl/lc0-0.23-mac-opencl.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Lc0",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "0.27",
"size": 15500000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "lc0.exe",
"url" : "dl/lc0-v0.27.0-windows-cpu-openblas.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Lc0",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "0.23",
"size": 62804503,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "lc0.exe",
"url" : "dl/lc0-0.22.0-win-opencl.zip"
},
{
"os": "mac",
"name": "Stockfish 13",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "13",
"size": 11900000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "stockfish13",
"url" : "dl/stockfish_13_macos.zip"
},
{
"os": "mac",
"name": "Stockfish 10",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "10",
"size": 498034,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "stockfish-10-64",
"url" : "dl/stockfish-10-mac.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Stockfish 13",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "13",
"size": 12500000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "stockfish_13_win_x64.exe",
"url" : "dl/stockfish_13_macos.zip"
},
{
"os": "win",
"name": "Stockfish",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "10",
"size": 1829393,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "stockfish_10_x32.exe",
"url" : "dl/stockfish-10-win.zip"
},
{
"os": "linux",
"name": "Stockfish 13",
"type": "uci",
"ver" : "13",
"size": 12500000,
"elo": "3500",
"main": "stockfish_13_linux_x64",
"url" : "dl/stockfish_13_linux_x64.zip"
}
],

"db" : [
{
"name": "GM2001",
"type": "bgdb",
"size": 6991601,
"main": "gm2001.bgdb",
"url" : "dl/gm2001.bgdb.zip"
},
{
"name": "CCRL960",
"type": "bgdb",
"size": 65489565,
"main": "ccrl960.bgdb",
"url" : "dl/ccrl960.bgdb.zip"
},
{
"name": "Problem 01",
"type": "bgdb",
"size": 4666316,
"main": "problem01.bgdb",
"url" : "dl/problem01.bgdb.zip"
}
],

"books" : [
{
"name": "GMBook",
"type": "polyglot",
"size": 654968,
"main": "gmbook.bin",
"url" : "dl/gmbook.bin.zip"
},
{
"name": "Cerebellum_Light_3Merge_200916",
"type": "polyglot",
"size": 178000000,
"main": "Cerebellum3Merge.bin",
"url" : "dl/Cerebellum_Light_3Merge_200916.zip"
},
{
"name": "Fruit",
"type": "polyglot",
"size": 364984,
"main": "fruit.bin",
"url" : "dl/fruit.bin.zip"
}
]

}