Banksia GUI released

[Wilhelm]

Hi Alex,
.bin books never worked for me, I also have ever the same opening so I use .pgn books and this is working correct. I don't know if you can change this in a running tournament.

[AlexChess]

Hi Alex,
.bin books never worked for me, I also have ever the same opening so I use .pgn books and this is working correct. I don't know if you can change this in a running tournament.

Thank you!
I try. Which FEN | PGN opening book you suggests? (little, varied and balanced)

Best regards, Alex

[AlexChess]

Hi Alex,
.bin books never worked for me, I also have ever the same opening so I use .pgn books and this is working correct. I don't know if you can change this in a running tournament.

Finally managed at least to disable on my current tournament the 2 moves book playing always the same 1.b3 b6 2.Bb2 Bb7 opening. Also completely deleting the book files, it stores the opening data somewhere and it was playing the same boring variation on every new game But since I'm testing engines perfectly able to play theoretical moves without book, I like to test them also during this phase.

Thanks again, for my next tournament I will use PGN and FEN books.

Best regards, Alex

[Wilhelm]

Hi Alex,
.bin books never worked for me, I also have ever the same opening so I use .pgn books and this is working correct. I don't know if you can change this in a running tournament.

Thank you!
I try. Which FEN | PGN opening book you suggests? (little, varied and balanced)

Best regards, Alex

I use this books from 10 up to max 14 plys

feobos_v20.1-contempt-3.pgn
HiarcsBookRef2550Lite.pgn
HS-7moves.pgn
UHO_XXL_+0.80_+1.09.pgn

[AlexChess]

Hi Alex,
.bin books never worked for me, I also have ever the same opening so I use .pgn books and this is working correct. I don't know if you can change this in a running tournament.

Thank you!
I try. Which FEN | PGN opening book you suggests? (little, varied and balanced)

Best regards, Alex

I use this books from 10 up to max 14 plys

feobos_v20.1-contempt-3.pgn
HiarcsBookRef2550Lite.pgn
HS-7moves.pgn
UHO_XXL_+0.80_+1.09.pgn

Thank you!

Best regards, Alex

[Werewolf]

Is this still being developed?

[Magnum]

Is this still being developed?

Yes but you could write something nice to the developer and thank him for his development.
Maybe then he will work more active on this project.

[AlexChess]

BSG update needed. I don't want to back to Arena or Cutechess

[AlexChess]

I know that Pham is very busy and far from this project.

But I've still issues with opening book settings. BSG sometimes play the same opening .BIN or it doesn't load overall books and it thinks since the first move, using both .PGN or .BIN. It doesn't swap colors (I want play same opening for white and black) also if the option is checked. If i set -1 for maximum variety, nothing apparently changes. I'd really need a tutorial with all the options related to each book setup with screenshots and I think it would be useful for all users.

Actually I'm using Stockfish's 8moves_v3.bin (max 4 moves) to randomize a little the openings. If I disable all books, engines very often play a Spanish with 4...Nf6, so insn't a good workaround.

I would like to have a minimal book library of 4 full moves (same couple of openings each time, varied and balanced with +-0.30 pawn score) to randomize the games of my tournaments / tests.







I've tried a lot of PGN and BIN books, but occasionally an engine exits the book with a +- 0.70 pawn score that compromises overall results...

PGN settings and neutral books suggested?

Best regards, Alex

[phhnguyen]

Version 0.54 released

Besides some minor bug fixes, many small improvements, and changes, there are some new things, including:

• Show boards & brief info in the tournament panel as tooltips

• The human can play in tournaments (re-implement the feature)

• Use online EGTB (Lichess or Chessdb) for adjudicating

• Officially support OCGDB (Open Chess Game Database Standard, based on SQLite). The new chess database format and code are one of the best so far (it is comparable to any best chess database program on any parameter) and highly optimized for sizes, speed, and position searching

• Officially support OOBS (Open Opening Book Standard) - a new format for opening books based on SQLite

Notes:

• We pride ourselves as founders of two new open chess standards, one for databases and the other for opening books. Both are open-source, totally free, and built on SQL databases which are mature, very strong engines/libraries to store and search data. Those standards and code have open, clean, clear database structures thus very easy to understand, and convert data from, to or modify. All could work directly and very well with BSG. The game databases can have customized structures. Users may not be worried anymore about speed and limitations (very high than average need and much much higher than any other chess format/program)

• EGTB 7-men has been available for some years. However, the number of users who download them all is still small (based on our experience and discussion on some forums). The reason is that 7-men are too huge, too expensive (to buy enough storage), and require too much time and effort to download. With the new feature, BSG can help users to get some benefits without downloading them. Lichess or chessdb could be chosen for adjudicating with endgames 7-men. In our tests, it is very fast, and smoothly and can help save significant time and computer power

Fig. 1 Watching tournament games is very convenient with a new database. Many of them were adjudicated by online 7-men EGTB


Fig. 2 A tooltip is displaying the board and some vital brief information about a tournament game



Fig. 3 Opening Book Viewer with an OOBS book