Banksia GUI released

[phhnguyen]

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.

[Steppenwolf]

Dear phhnguyen,

I have some feature requests, which I Hope you can implement very soon:

1)Please add the possibility to import chessbase opening books (.ctg) as well as their database (.cbh).

2)Can you also add some elementary database functions, e.g. search for position, player...like in Chessbase or Hiarcs Chess Explorer?

Thank you in Advance!
Sven

[phhnguyen]

I can't seem to register engines in this gui now. I have registered many before but not now. No matter what I select it will error with "Error: This engine doesn't support any protocol". I have updated to the latest today as well but still no luck.

Thanks for the report. Which engines are you trying?

Can you try some engines from the Download box of BSG to check if they can be installed? Menu Tools -> Download -> Open Download dialog, click on any Download button of engines in the list. BSG will auto-download and install that engine. Back to Settings to see if the new engine has been added to the list.

You may also try to remove the JSON file about engines in the BSG configuration folder before trying again: Open Settings dialog ->General tab, button Configuration files to open a dialog, tick the line "Engine" and click the button "Delete ticked file".

The known problem is that BSG does not support engines with protocol Winboard 1.0. They should be UCI or Winboard 2.0.

[phhnguyen]

Thanks for the feature requests.

Dear phhnguyen,

I have some feature requests, which I Hope you can implement very soon:

1)Please add the possibility to import chessbase opening books (.ctg) as well as their database (.cbh).

It is still in my to-do list for long time

2)Can you also add some elementary database functions, e.g. search for position, player...like in Chessbase or Hiarcs Chess Explorer?

Thank you in Advance!
Sven

I have added the request to my to-do list and ponder the way to implement it (it should be a hard task)

[Nordlandia]

I think it's best that they work separately. "syzygy engine path" mean it's for consulting during search. "syzygy adjudication path" is exclusively for static piece adjudication. They must not overlap each other.

* Syzygy engine path is universal for all syzygy supported engines. Convenient and avoids having to reapply "Syzygy path" during new engine installation.

* Syzygy adjudication path only kicks in with 7 or less pieces on the board.

[JohnW]

I can't seem to register engines in this gui now. I have registered many before but not now. No matter what I select it will error with "Error: This engine doesn't support any protocol". I have updated to the latest today as well but still no luck.

Thanks for the report. Which engines are you trying?

Can you try some engines from the Download box of BSG to check if they can be installed? Menu Tools -> Download -> Open Download dialog, click on any Download button of engines in the list. BSG will auto-download and install that engine. Back to Settings to see if the new engine has been added to the list.

You may also try to remove the JSON file about engines in the BSG configuration folder before trying again: Open Settings dialog ->General tab, button Configuration files to open a dialog, tick the line "Engine" and click the button "Delete ticked file".

The known problem is that BSG does not support engines with protocol Winboard 1.0. They should be UCI or Winboard 2.0.

I clicked on the download button for those engines but I simply get a folder empty message. I also deleted the Engine json but that didn't fix the error.
I am trying to register the new Komodo Dragon 2 engine but it seems to happen with any engine I try.

[phhnguyen]

I can't seem to register engines in this gui now. I have registered many before but not now. No matter what I select it will error with "Error: This engine doesn't support any protocol". I have updated to the latest today as well but still no luck.

Thanks for the report. Which engines are you trying?

Can you try some engines from the Download box of BSG to check if they can be installed? Menu Tools -> Download -> Open Download dialog, click on any Download button of engines in the list. BSG will auto-download and install that engine. Back to Settings to see if the new engine has been added to the list.

You may also try to remove the JSON file about engines in the BSG configuration folder before trying again: Open Settings dialog ->General tab, button Configuration files to open a dialog, tick the line "Engine" and click the button "Delete ticked file".

The known problem is that BSG does not support engines with protocol Winboard 1.0. They should be UCI or Winboard 2.0.

I clicked on the download button for those engines but I simply get a folder empty message. I also deleted the Engine json but that didn't fix the error.
I am trying to register the new Komodo Dragon 2 engine but it seems to happen with any engine I try.

Simply select any folder to download and store engines at the bottom of the Download dialog.

Another way to try: download Stockfish and install it by dragging-dropping (video:

BTW, can you run any engine from the command line (CMD)? Then type uci and post what it replies to here (text or image). Thanks

[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.