Banksia GUI released

[herO]

Lichess bot feature now works even worse than before. When I play games via lichess bot feature, it never start playing when I start with the black pieces. Latest version created almost 200 games which are still in "playing right now" status, because Banksia GUI didn't make any moves. Is it possible to fix it?

[AlexChess]

It's Stockfish 14-dev 210805 with old FatFritz2_v1.bin open source from github. I named it Fat Fritz 2.2 in Stockfish 14. But sorry, someone here doesn't want that members share unofficial clone links, and I respect this

Regards, Alex

[Eduard]

The Stockfish developers are currently working hard to make Stockfish stronger (and to hunt down derivatives). Constantly new versions and new networks! That is very nice, but it lacks other basic functions. Playing without a book is no fun! Yesterday I played a few games with the latest stockfish and net from Sopel on Lichess. But I had to play without a book. That's shit and of no value in the long run.

I will soon delete some derivatives from my hard drive due to GPL violation. But then I almost no longer have an up-to-date engine with the ability to load polyglot books.

What can I do against it? With other GUIs I can load native books and play them on the servers. But I can't do that on Lichess.

What alternatives do I have? Do I have to stop playing Lichess?

Or maybe Banksia will offer an option to load opening books for playing on Lichess?

[ChickenLogic]

The Stockfish developers are currently working hard to make Stockfish stronger (and to hunt down derivatives). Constantly new versions and new networks! That is very nice, but it lacks other basic functions. Playing without a book is no fun! Yesterday I played a few games with the latest stockfish and net from Sopel on Lichess. But I had to play without a book. That's shit and of no value in the long run.

I will soon delete some derivatives from my hard drive due to GPL violation. But then I almost no longer have an up-to-date engine with the ability to load polyglot books.

What can I do against it? With other GUIs I can load native books and play them on the servers. But I can't do that on Lichess.

What alternatives do I have? Do I have to stop playing Lichess?

Or maybe Banksia will offer an option to load opening books for playing on Lichess?

Once CFish is up to date with Stockfish master again you can use up to two polyglot books. Alternatively, you can use Brainlearn which dynamically builds a persistent hash to guide SF's search which turns out to increase SF's strength about as much as a regular book. This will need a couple of thousand games, though.
I commend you for not using SF derivatives that don't honour SF's license.

[Luecx]

The Stockfish developers are currently working hard to make Stockfish stronger (and to hunt down derivatives). Constantly new versions and new networks! That is very nice, but it lacks other basic functions. Playing without a book is no fun! Yesterday I played a few games with the latest stockfish and net from Sopel on Lichess. But I had to play without a book. That's shit and of no value in the long run.

I will soon delete some derivatives from my hard drive due to GPL violation. But then I almost no longer have an up-to-date engine with the ability to load polyglot books.

What can I do against it? With other GUIs I can load native books and play them on the servers. But I can't do that on Lichess.

What alternatives do I have? Do I have to stop playing Lichess?

Or maybe Banksia will offer an option to load opening books for playing on Lichess?

Depending on which lichess-client you use, you can have it use a book directly without the use of the engine.
https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot

[marsell]

For opening books in bin format there is the Polyglot adapter.

[AlexChess]

Hi phhnguyen,

Good news!
This night BSG suddenly closed. I have only replaced Seer 2.20 with Seer 2.30. When I reopened it, score totals are magically fixed and I can continue my round robin, without restarting 500+ games



...But on Tournament Results again there isn't the actual 54 engines tournament of 1431 games (!), only the previous one, so I cannot backup it. I don't understand how and when current tournament saving feature works, but I think that a button to MANUALLY save it when you need, would be easy to implement and safer for my valuable games

Best Regards,
Alex
BSG big fan & supporter

[Luecx]

Hi phhnguyen,

Good news!
This night BSG suddenly closed. I have only replaced Seer 2.20 with Seer 2.30. When I reopened it, score totals are magically fixed and I can continue my round robin, without restarting 500+ games



...But on Tournament Results again there isn't the actual 54 engines tournament of 1431 games (!), only the previous one, so I cannot backup it. I don't understand how and when current tournament saving feature works, but I think that a button to MANUALLY save it when you need, would be easy to implement and safer for my valuable games

Best Regards,
Alex
BSG big fan & supporter

Interesting tournament! What’s the name of it? Andrew Grant and the chamber of torture?

Featuring:

1) Stockfish
2) Stockfish
3) Stockfish
4) Stockfish
5) Stockfish
6) Stockfish
7) Stockfish
8) Stockfish
9) Ethereal
10) Stockfish
11) Stockfish
12) Stockfish
13) Stockfish

I wonder if there will be a Happy End.

[AlexChess]

Sorry, I really don't like to interact with you and you are off topic here, too.

Here we share ideas with the skilled author that likes suggestions by fans that contribute to fix a completely free and very promising open source GUI.

Regards, Alex

[Mark 1]

Sorry, I really don't like to interact with you and you are off topic here, too.

Here we share ideas with the skilled author that likes suggestions by fans that contribute to fix a completely free and very promising open source GUI.

Regards, Alex

I can only agree

greetings
Mark 1