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AdminX wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:50 am Not sure if this is a bug, but I am looking into it. Running Version 26 on two systems and when I now try to play a local network game the GUI has been crashing on the remote system.

jorose wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 6:19 am
The other point is I was wondering where I can access or save the PGN(s) of the games from the tournament? I can replay the games in a small window in the application, but I can't figure out how to save those games to PGN. The application seems well thought out and intuitive mostly, so I imagine I am misunderstanding something obvious.

AdminX wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 10:33 am Bug Report: I've been noticing that time is out of sync by about 5 to 8 seconds when using LiChess Bot. The GUI believes that there is more time than is actually available. This happens at least when I do test games vs LiChess Stockfish Bot. Does not seem to happen vs other bots. Wanted to report it anyway.

AdminX wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 12:16 pm LiChess Bots: Can you add an option for Corresponence? I get Corresponence matches that I would like to disable from the GUI.

zenpawn wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 11:56 am

phhnguyen wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 10:49 am

zenpawn wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 12:16 am It seems that Banksia does not recognize Winboard engines as being capable of playing chess960.

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

You are right. Actually even I have coded BSG to understand WB engine's chess variants, I did not test them with that chess variant since I was struggling to find them (Winboard engines supporting chess 960). Can you/someones suggest some of them? I prefer ones for macOS but Windows OK.

Don't know of any macOS ones, but here are a few FRC Winboard engines:

ExChess https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalchessprogram/
Schooner https://sites.google.com/site/schoonerchess/home
SlowChess Blitz http://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/slow.htm (both UCI and Winboard)

zenpawn wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 1:24 pm

AdminX wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 12:16 pm LiChess Bots: Can you add an option for Corresponence? I get Corresponence matches that I would like to disable from the GUI.

Adding on to this, I see variants are not an option when challenging via the GUI, but can it accept variant challenges? If not, that would be a great feature (at least the variants that use standard chess pieces, like FRC, 3-check, etc.). I suppose it goes hand-in-hand with the current bug whereby the GUI doesn't realize Winboard engines can play chess960 too.

jorose wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 6:19 am I used the recent Winter v0.8 release as an opportunity to test a couple GUIs, including Banksia. I am for the most part quite happy and feel this will likely be one of my main chess applications (together with Cutechess, XBoard and Scid) moving forward. That being said, two points:

When I ran a tournament and set base hash and threads to respective values, some of the engines seemed to ignore these values so I ended up restarting the tournament with the settings for all the engines individually fixed to the correct values. Is there something I did incorrectly, or was that just a bug?

jorose wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 6:19 am The other point is I was wondering where I can access or save the PGN(s) of the games from the tournament? I can replay the games in a small window in the application, but I can't figure out how to save those games to PGN. The application seems well thought out and intuitive mostly, so I imagine I am misunderstanding something obvious.

Sergio Martinez wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:52 pm

jorose wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 6:19 am
The other point is I was wondering where I can access or save the PGN(s) of the games from the tournament? I can replay the games in a small window in the application, but I can't figure out how to save those games to PGN. The application seems well thought out and intuitive mostly, so I imagine I am misunderstanding something obvious.

---> New tournament ---> Logs ---> Games (set path)

MCDermont wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 7:03 pm i will still remember you on the casteling problem
its still there , the move is stored in the bin book but no engine will use the stored move

greetings

AdminX wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 11:34 am

AdminX wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:50 am Not sure if this is a bug, but I am looking into it. Running Version 26 on two systems and when I now try to play a local network game the GUI has been crashing on the remote system.

UPDATE: At 1st I thought this might be a Firewall issue, so I uninstalled my ESET anti-virus and firewall software and ran another test. However the problem still exist. Everything worked fine untill I upgraded to version 26.