Banksia GUI released

[peter]

Thanks for you suggestions. I have been using analysis on the fly, but I can't make any moves, perhaps it will help to read some blogs.
Best regards
anst

Entering moves on the board works with new game and sometimes with imported ones too, but with those (imported ones) it seems to depend on the kind of.pgn- format, that is written by different GUIs in different ways. Importing over clipboard sometimes works, but sometimes it doesn't neither, maybe it's got something to do with already stored result of the game also.
Best place to ask probably was the Banksia- forum

https://banksiagui.com/forums/

but I'm not registered there so far,
regards

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!

I report 2 strange bugs that are happening to me every time that I stop ad restart the same tournament. (BSG 0.55 Windows)

Time controls change from 3 min+2 / all to 30 min+2 /all

Luckily, editing json and changing the value from 1800 to 180 (at the very end of .json) and then updating the script
I can continue the tournament.

Also Fire NN behavior is strange. Evaluation is always +0.00 and plays random moves, while the same build works fine on Arena.

Ask me extra data if you need.

Kind regards, Alex

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!
I hope is all ok for you

Related to Norman Schmidt Fire-NN never updating score from +0,00 and playing random moves on BanksiaGui 0.55 Windows, I have recorded 2 videos that show the issue (difficult to explain) and also that my build is perfectly working on Arena 3.5.1. https://github.com/FireFather/fire-NN/issues/21

On my system even the older build sse41-popcnt made by the author have the same bug
Tried even restarting Windows and verifying the net path...

[chessica]

Hello Pham,

I am quite fond of this project and therefore would like to
some points of criticism. So far I use the ARENA, Shredder classic
and SCID GUI and I am very satisfied,very satisfied and still am.
Therefore here are my comments.

There are some points that I like very much in the BanksiaGUI
I like. But I don't want to write about them, I just want to describe
only describe the points that I do not like.

1. you can install the GUI but not uninstall it,
very bad.

2. there is no help file, manual, bad.

3. you can move menu windows out of the screen, so they are no longer
they are no longer accessible. Very bad.

4. one can't test *.epd files with many engines in a meaningful way,
because some positions are not tested for some reason, so you have to
so you have to retest them. See under 5.

5. you can't test *.epd files with many engines and the same
time, xxx seconds per position. Bad.

6. the menu is unclear. Test Epd under: Tools / Developer... What is this?

7. you can not see the size of the EGTBs you want to download.
you want to download. This is insufficient. Since the disk space
on the disk is not arbitrarily large, you need the info before
the download and not afterwards! Very bad.

8. you can not be sure when the GUI crashes, because it always does
it always does, just not predictable. Bad.

9. you can accidentally set the menu font size so small,
so that the GUI is no longer usable. Bad.

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!
I hope is all ok for you

Related to Norman Schmidt Fire-NN never updating score from +0,00 and playing random moves on BanksiaGui 0.55 Windows, I have recorded 2 videos that show the issue (difficult to explain) and also that my build is perfectly working on Arena 3.5.1. https://github.com/FireFather/fire-NN/issues/21

On my system even the older build sse41-popcnt made by the author have the same bug
Tried even restarting Windows and verifying the net path...

Here a video showing that even @kranium Fire8.1NN.MC3 sse41 Popc official build crashes on Banksiagui 0.55. Anybody experiences the same issue?

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XsZ4qTBg

[peter]

Hi Pham!
I hope is all ok for you

Tried to register at Bankia- forum, but even with 4 different nick- names and five different anwers to "not to Banksia related terms" it didn't work.
Gave in

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!
I hope is all ok for you

Tried to register at Bankia- forum, but even with 4 different nick- names and five different anwers to "not to Banksia related terms" it didn't work.
Gave in

Hi Peter!

I try now for you to register as another account (I'm not an admin, only moderator and unfortunately Pham is missing since months ) If I can register, I will PM the account data to you and you will change them once logged )

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!
I hope is all ok for you

Tried to register at Bankia- forum, but even with 4 different nick- names and five different anwers to "not to Banksia related terms" it didn't work.
Gave in

It works for me (I post here so also other people interested can register. The word to enter is bank (since the logo is a flower )

And we are very happy if you partecipe to the forum

I post here in PM your data.

[AlexChess]

Hi Pham!
On Banksiagui tournament management could you also let to modify Gauntlet challengers (add-remove) ? To add a new engine I have only a workaround: choose Roundrobin and then select only the games of 1 engine against all the others, but for 38 engines it generates a tournament of 70.000 games

Kind regards, Alex

[phhnguyen]

Thanks all for your suggestions, feedback, and bug reports!