Banksia GUI released

[AlexChess]

Thank you very much Pham!

You are like Aladin genius

Best regards, Alex

[Eduard]

Very nice Pham, great work!

I have published a BIN book which plays strong with the Banksia GUI on Lichess (and not only there). Read more about it in the Banksia forum
https://banksiagui.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20

or on my homepage.

[BrendanJNorman]

Hi Pham, did you remove the feature for humans to play in tournaments?

If it isn't too difficult, please add it back. I really enjoy trying to avoid coming last in my own events.

[Nordlandia]

Is it doable to inquiry EGTB verdict from lichess or other hosting 5-6-7 syzygy website for adjudication.

If doable it would help as not all users have storage for 7-pieces as it speed up tournaments somewhat.

An idea i came up with

[Wilhelm]

After using the GUI for some time there are two realy important things for me missing.

1) ECO-codes for openings in tournament games
it's odd to look everytime in the pgn file to see what opening is played

2) a second clock for the actual move time
in long time controls I don't see how long the engine is thinking on the actual move.
I only see when the best move is found (eg. 2:11) but the engine is thinking for eg. 8min now.

Simple things I have in all other GUI's, but I'm no programmer so I don't know how hard it is to implement

cheers William

[Cornfed]

After using the GUI for some time there are two realy important things for me missing.

1) ECO-codes for openings in tournament games
it's odd to look everytime in the pgn file to see what opening is played

2) a second clock for the actual move time
in long time controls I don't see how long the engine is thinking on the actual move.
I only see when the best move is found (eg. 2:11) but the engine is thinking for eg. 8min now.

Simple things I have in all other GUI's, but I'm no programmer so I don't know how hard it is to implement

cheers William

Yes, pretty standard things. Perhaps the author is too busy catering to all the whims expressed in this thread? That's been an observation some have expressed.
But perhaps he will put yours 'in the que'.

[WD001]

Hi there,

I'm trying to integrate the picochess mame engines into BanksiaGUI on a RaspberryPi4.
Unfortunately, all of my attempts have failed.

Is it even possible to integrate external engines in Banksia?

Under arena I use the
Command line: E:\Putty\plink.exe
and the
Command line parameters: -ssh pi@192.168.178.33 "/opt/picochess/engines/armv7/mame/amsterd"

Thanks and Greetings

[AdminX]

Hi there,

I'm trying to integrate the picochess mame engines into BanksiaGUI on a RaspberryPi4.
Unfortunately, all of my attempts have failed.

Is it even possible to integrate external engines in Banksia?

Under arena I use the
Command line: E:\Putty\plink.exe
and the
Command line parameters: -ssh pi@192.168.178.33 "/opt/picochess/engines/armv7/mame/amsterd"

Thanks and Greetings

I have not tested that yet, however you may want to try creating that as a batch file (*.bat). Then using the Banksia GUI just install the *.bat (Example: amsterd.bat) as if it were a engine. The problem might be that plink.exe is not seen as a uci or wb protocol. In that case you could select mix and see if that works.

[WD001]

Great!
Your proposed solution works.

With a batch file, with the following line, the engine is integrated and it also runs.

E: \Putty\plink.exe -ssh pi@192.168.178.33 "/opt/picochess/engines/armv7l/mame/amsterd"

thank you for your quick help

[adnoh]

Posting a follow-up to my own earlier post where I reported Banksia GUI would randomly exit and crash, sometimes leaving engine tasks running and sometimes not. Through trial and error, I have found that the one setting that would prevent the crashes for me is to deselect the "Game to database" option in the Tournament Logs dialog box. I have now let it play > 2,000 games over 4 tournaments with many engines and not a single crash since this change.

For background, I was on Windows 10 Pro and now Windows 11 Pro.

Thanks for the very useful software.