Banksia GUI released

[phhnguyen]

Bug: I still caught 3 Chess960 games even when I had the Chess960 box unticked.

Thanks

Thanks a lot for the report. I have done a quick fix (same version). Please re-download.

Thanks, also I have noticed that I do not hear board sounds when using LiChess Bots. Not a big deal to me, they seem to work everywhere else, but I thought I would mention it.

Thank you very much for the report. It was muted in purpose (it makes sounds for normal or tournament games only). I will count Lichess games as normal ones!

[phhnguyen]

Hi,
I'd like to play a time handicap match (set a different time control for each engine).
Is it possible with Banksia ?

Vincent

Hi,
I'd like to play a time handicap match (set a different time control for each engine).
Is it possible with Banksia ?

Vincent

Yes:
Tournaments => New Tournament => Multi timers => v

Thank Roman for helping

Yes, when creating a tournament, just click on tick box "Multi timers" and set/check all ping items. You can set 5 different timers and give timer indexes to engines.

[phhnguyen]

Can you enable a way to disable 'Concurrency'? Only wish to play one game at a time and cannot set 'Concurrency' to 0.

Thanks

That is the concurrency of games, work as the following: when a bot got a new challenge and the number of playing games is over that concurrency, the challenge will be put in the waiting list and will be accepted later when the number of playing games reduced. That prevents bots from accepting too many games which may over the computing power

[phhnguyen]

First, thank you for adding Chess960 support for Winboard engines and for fixing the issue with using a book. I can confirm they are both working.

Question: After a lichess game finishes, the log tab is cleared and the game on the screen is an old one played offline. How does one find the PGN and log for the previously played lichess games?

In the General tab of Settings dialog, there is an item "Online game log". It is designed for logging PGN games for online games. It works for Local Area Network games but... not for Lichess ones

I will fix it for the next release. Thanks for the report.

[phhnguyen]

How do you set different time control handicap on your GUI, for instance I would like to set Komodo 14 with only 10 seconds for the entire game and for me 60 minutes ?

When creating a tournament (menu -> Tournaments -> New tournament) or setting up a game (menu -> File -> Game setup), just click on tick box "Multi timers" and set/check all ping items. You can set 5 different timers and then give timer indexes to engines.

[phhnguyen]

I also have another request. It would be nice if the resulting pgn after conversion, was in short algebraic notation. Also for browsing a bin book in Banksia it would be nice if the moves where in short algebraic notation.
I first converted the pgn to cbh in Chessbase afterwards I replaced the pgn. To get the games in short algebraic notation.

Thanks a lot for the report!

To watch the book tree in SAN notation, just change notation in Settings dialog, General tab, Notation in Move list.

For the current version, the PGN files use only coordinate notation. I will use notation in Settings for them from the next version.

[AdminX]

Can you enable a way to disable 'Concurrency'? Only wish to play one game at a time and cannot set 'Concurrency' to 0.

Thanks

That is the concurrency of games, work as the following: when a bot got a new challenge and the number of playing games is over that concurrency, the challenge will be put in the waiting list and will be accepted later when the number of playing games reduced. That prevents bots from accepting too many games which may over the computing power

Ahh, okay then there may be a bug there. Because I have been getting a new game started while there is one already in progress. In other words the game is automatically starting without being played in the queue. This causes a problem when using LC0 because it creates a out of memory error which in turn prevents LC0 from moving.

Thanks

[Vinvin]

I just started to use Banksia.

2 request from my side :

1) On the graph I don't see who is red and who is blue. Suggestion : add a legend with the engine names in red/blue or use the colors black and white in the graph.

2) Invert the score when engine is black. A lot of engines gives the score from their own point of view but it becomes usual to have "+" when white is better and "-" when black is better. Same everywhere including the graph.

Thanks !

[phhnguyen]

I just started to use Banksia.

2 request from my side :

1) On the graph I don't see who is red and who is blue. Suggestion : add a legend with the engine names in red/blue or use the colors black and white in the graph.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions/requests!

The problem with BSG to display legends is that the graph may have not enough space to display that info. It is quite dynamic on size, up to users.

BTW, BSG always uses the red line for white and blue for black players. Their names should be displayed on clock boxes which quite closed to the graph.

2) Invert the score when engine is black. A lot of engines gives the score from their own point of view but it becomes usual to have "+" when white is better and "-" when black is better. Same everywhere including the graph.
Thanks !

BSG has implemented some standards about scores. The way to view scores as your suggestions is called "Score in white view". Users can set it up in Settings dialog as the following image:

[phhnguyen]

It appears the "level" command is still not being sent to Winboard engines to tell them the time control.

I am struggling to reproduce the problem. Can you send me an engine log? Thanks.
Note that "level" will be sent only when the timer is the standard type.