Banksia GUI released

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

AdminX and BrendanJNorman can never be the flag or engine logo on the right side. It must always be on the right side. Why - look at sports broadcasts and see where the player's flag is. It's always on the right, never on the left.

[phhnguyen]

You could always just make the logo of each engine their flag if you like.

Yes we can!

Thanks all for suggestions. I have added them to my TODO list. All most all items could be turned on/off via Settings thus it is up to users.

It is not hard to implement. However, I am struggling a bit about designing since displaying space (for clocks and other things such as player names, icons, flags, ratings...) may be changed too much and sometimes it is too narrow for such many things.

Perhaps I still implement it then wait for feedbacks to improve later

[phhnguyen]

Thank you very much phhnguyen for fulfilling my request.

No problem at all and thanks again for it.

Yours and other feedbacks, suggestions are always more than welcome. Clearly they are my most important source of ideas and creativeness. They can help BSG to be better, more useful and wider acceptance. Implementing them is quite interesting too (since they are new and fresh to me, even sometimes they may become huge challenges ).

[Ovyron]

Right, so I'm offering my services as a graphic designer for any engine that needs a logo and doesn't have it for Banksia GUI.

Here's some examples of my work:

[mesilikas]

Fantastic work Ovyron!

[supersharp77]

Right, so I'm offering my services as a graphic designer for any engine that needs a logo and doesn't have it for Banksia GUI.

Here's some examples of my work:

Yes my friend.....magnificent work!! Keep going!! AR

[phhnguyen]

Version 0.14 released

1. Fixed bugs: some small bugs, no serious one (it is the first time I did not see any serious bug )
2. Some small improvements/adjustments
3. New features:
- Save/load multiple ongoing tournaments
- Show logos, Elo ratings, flags of engines
- Show multi games from a PGN file
- Get stats from games in a PGN file: shows information similar the information of tournament results (such as result table, cross table, tech table)
- Lichess bots: BSG can connect and play on Lichess as bots with some advantages (compare with some popular software):
+ Manage and play multi accounts/bots/games concurrently
+ Challenge (manually) anyone
+ Operate them in a Graphics Interface (visually)
+ Can display a lot of information, e.g., show how engines compute their moves


Illustrations:
1. Play some Lichess bots with a lot of information


2. Show all games of a PGN file then get their stats

[BrendanJNorman]

Version 0.14 released

1. Fixed bugs: some small bugs, no serious one (it is the first time I did not see any serious bug )
2. Some small improvements/adjustments
3. New features:
- Save/load multiple ongoing tournaments
- Show logos, Elo ratings, flags of engines
- Show multi games from a PGN file
- Get stats from games in a PGN file: shows information similar the information of tournament results (such as result table, cross table, tech table)
- Lichess bots: BSG can connect and play on Lichess as bots with some advantages (compare with some popular software):
+ Manage and play multi accounts/bots/games concurrently
+ Challenge (manually) anyone
+ Operate them in a Graphics Interface (visually)
+ Can display a lot of information, e.g., show how engines compute their moves

Beautiful! Congratulations, your GUI is now number 1!

[Modern Times]

What does the pgn that it produces look like ? A clean format something like below like Cutechess ? e.g.

1. e4 {book} g6 {book} 2. d4 {book} Bg7 {book} 3. Nc3 {book} d6 {book}
4. h3 {book} Nc6 {book} 5. Nf3 {+0.62/29 66s} Nf6 {-0.68/10 23s}
6. d5 {+0.71/29 63s} Nb8 {-0.64/11 26s} 7. Bg5 {+0.76/26 13s} c6 {-0.57/10 54s}
8. Bd3 {+0.58/30 131s} O-O {-0.57/11 47s} 9. O-O {+0.68/26 9.7s}


Or Shredder GUI (also has the expected move, sometimes)

1. c4 {book 0s} c6 {book 0s} 2. Nf3 {book 0s} Nf6 {book 0s}
3. e3 {book 0s} d5 {book 0s} 4. a3 {book 0s} e6 {book 0s}
5. d4 {+0.57/25 37s} Nbd7 {+0.10/12 30s (Be7)} 6. Nbd2
{+0.63/25 18s} b6 {+0.12/13 1:09m (Bd6)} 7. Bd3 {+0.61/27
37s} Bb7 {+0.19/8 24s (Be7)} 8. O-O {+0.53/27 23s}

[BrendanJNorman]

What does the pgn that it produces look like ? A clean format something like below like Cutechess ? e.g.

1. e4 {book} g6 {book} 2. d4 {book} Bg7 {book} 3. Nc3 {book} d6 {book}
4. h3 {book} Nc6 {book} 5. Nf3 {+0.62/29 66s} Nf6 {-0.68/10 23s}
6. d5 {+0.71/29 63s} Nb8 {-0.64/11 26s} 7. Bg5 {+0.76/26 13s} c6 {-0.57/10 54s}
8. Bd3 {+0.58/30 131s} O-O {-0.57/11 47s} 9. O-O {+0.68/26 9.7s}


Or Shredder GUI (also has the expected move, sometimes)

1. c4 {book 0s} c6 {book 0s} 2. Nf3 {book 0s} Nf6 {book 0s}
3. e3 {book 0s} d5 {book 0s} 4. a3 {book 0s} e6 {book 0s}
5. d4 {+0.57/25 37s} Nbd7 {+0.10/12 30s (Be7)} 6. Nbd2
{+0.63/25 18s} b6 {+0.12/13 1:09m (Bd6)} 7. Bd3 {+0.61/27
37s} Bb7 {+0.19/8 24s (Be7)} 8. O-O {+0.53/27 23s}

Something like this.

[Event "banksia game"]
[Date "2020.01.17"]
[White "Ethereal 8.28"]
[Black "hm::Human"]
[Result "*"]
[TimeControl "40/300+1"]
[Time "14:21:48"]
[Termination "*"]
[ECO "A55"]
[Opening "Old Indian"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6
3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. e4 e5
5. Nf3 {A55: Old Indian, main line} c6 6. Be2 a6
7. a4 a5 8. O-O {+0.46/15 5.4 6817419} Be7
9. Qc2 {+0.02/16 8.6 11036347} h6 10. Rd1 {+0.12/16 6.5 8072594} Qc7
11. b3 {+0.15/17 7.5 9379133} Nf8 12. c5 {+0.35/15 5.0 6332150} exd4
13. Bf4 {+0.49/17 9.3 4850136} Ng6 14. Bg3 {+1.3/17 4.7 6042270} Nh5
15. cxd6 {+1.6/20 7.9 9727964} Bxd6 16. Nb5 {+1.6/20 6.8 8821353} Bxg3
17. Nxc7+ {+3.6/19 6.2 7926839} Bxc7 18. Nxd4 {+3.7/19 8.3 10894457} Nhf4
19. Nb5 {+3.8/18 5.6 7685936} Be5 20. Nd6+ {+3.9/18 9.1 12486787} Ke7
21. Nxc8+ {+3.9/18 6.3 8878112} Rhxc8 22. Bg4 {+3.9/19 6.4 9451096} Rd8
23. Qc5+ {+4.1/18 10.9 6356443} Kf6 24. Rxd8 {+5.3/19 8.3 11511693} Rxd8
25. Qxa5 {+5.5/19 8.9 13206867} Rd4 26. Rd1 {+5.8/20 9.6 14889292}