Banksia GUI released

[bmp1974]

Why doesn't Banksia GUI make board sounds during Engine-Engine games?

[Nordlandia]

I was thinking about something like this may be a neat solution.

"Syzygy engine path" and "Syzygy adjudication path" is probably fine.

Tooltip ideas:

• It is recommended to store syzygy egtb on a fast SSD.

• As adjudication only need single probe at root position. HDD/Mechanical hard drive is sufficient.

See -

Since I am still confused about the usefulness of using two Syzygy sets, I postpone that implementation until having some new data.

I don't see the problem in using two syzygy sets. One dedicated solely for adjudication and one purely for engines consulting information during search.

There should be no interference.

[phhnguyen]

Why doesn't Banksia GUI make board sounds during Engine-Engine games?

To have sounds when engines vs engines you need to turn sound on (on Settings dialog), then in the sound configuration dialog (click to the button next to "Sound" checkbox to open it), tick "Engine moves", "Normal games", "Tournament games" as the bellow image.

Sounds will be played for displaying games only but not games running in the background of tournaments.

[JohnW]

Is it possible to setup a chess position and have two engines play against each other starting from that position? If not could you consider adding it?
I would like to be able to give an old engine knight odds versus a newer engine.

Thank you..

[phhnguyen]

Is it possible to setup a chess position and have two engines play against each other starting from that position? If not could you consider adding it?
I would like to be able to give an old engine knight odds versus a newer engine.

Thank you..

Yes and it’s just a quick setup.

If you have that position, just copy and paste it into BSG. BSG can understand FEN, PGN, UCI positions (such as “position startpos moves e2e4 e7e6”).
If you don’t have that position, you may edit to have (menu -> Edit -> Edit Board, Fig. 1). You may also make moves manually (set the game to human vs human then make moves for both sides).

Once you have a game with a give position you will need to set up engines. Menu -> File -> Game setup to open a dialog as the Fig. 2, select engines for both sides (as well as a timer, options) then press the button "OK".

Now from the toolbar, click on the button "Play" until it changed to green as Fig. 3.

All done, have fun


Fig. 1 Edit a position


Fig. 2 Game set-up dialog


Fig. 3 Play button (the top left one)

[JohnW]

Awesome! Thank you!

[JohnW]

Is it possible to setup a chess position and have two engines play against each other starting from that position? If not could you consider adding it?
I would like to be able to give an old engine knight odds versus a newer engine.

Thank you..

Yes and it’s just a quick setup.

If you have that position, just copy and paste it into BSG. BSG can understand FEN, PGN, UCI positions (such as “position startpos moves e2e4 e7e6”).
If you don’t have that position, you may edit to have (menu -> Edit -> Edit Board, Fig. 1). You may also make moves manually (set the game to human vs human then make moves for both sides).

Once you have a game with a give position you will need to set up engines. Menu -> File -> Game setup to open a dialog as the Fig. 2, select engines for both sides (as well as a timer, options) then press the button "OK".

Now from the toolbar, click on the button "Play" until it changed to green as Fig. 3.

All done, have fun


Fig. 1 Edit a position


Fig. 2 Game set-up dialog


Fig. 3 Play button (the top left one)

Well I followed you directions but it doesn't seem to work. After clicking play, the engine with white never moves. All I see is an arrow for what it's thinking about doing, sometimes it changes etc. But I setup a 10 minute game and it's spent 5 minutes of it without actually moving.

[JohnW]

Disregard, it works. I was being stupid and given it 10 minutes per move so I didn't think it was doing anything

[smcracraft]

0.35 is up here on Catalina 10.15.6 (latest patch).

The books are in and it plays randomly, so that is all great.

My concern though is the Settings/Graphics, for example. See attached photo.

If I could see the labels, I could select from the piece types, piece colors, square colors, and board background.

But it's a mysterious white color.

Please kindly advise.

[phhnguyen]

0.35 is up here on Catalina 10.15.6 (latest patch).

The books are in and it plays randomly, so that is all great.

My concern though is the Settings/Graphics, for example. See attached photo.

If I could see the labels, I could select from the piece types, piece colors, square colors, and board background.

But it's a mysterious white color.

Please kindly advise.

Thanks a lot for the report!

Frankly speaking, I was not aware of that issue even I am using a Catalina iMac since I use only the standard theme (Appearance Light). I see the problem when trying the dark theme. Will find a solution for the next release.

You may change your computer theme to Light appearance as a temporary solution.