Banksia GUI released

[phhnguyen]

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14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

For me, a bigger number is a bit better since I have some chance to clear some bugs (as well as adding some new ones ) and add some new features.

BTW, what do you mean "saving multiple ongoing tournaments"? Can you explain more? Thanks.

[phhnguyen]

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The speed that this guy is releasing is breath-taking - I really wish we could support him somehow.

I'm going to review Banksia on my website, so that'll get him a ton of new users, but still...

This GUI is going to the the dominant one for computer chess by end of 2020, I have no doubts.

Love it.



Really impressive work.

Thanks a lot for good words and help

Help is more than welcome and highly appreciated.

If you and other people write something about, tutorials, videos... please let us know, I would like to share on banksiagui.com

[BrendanJNorman]

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14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

For me, a bigger number is a bit better since I have some chance to clear some bugs (as well as adding some new ones ) and add some new features.

BTW, what do you mean "saving multiple ongoing tournaments"? Can you explain more? Thanks.

He means, say you have an ongoing 20 round swiss going on with 300 engines...this will take time.

What if he wants to pause that tournament and run a quick Stockfish gauntlet...he can't.

Have to finish the big swiss first.

Therefore, it'd be great to be able to save an ongoing tournament to a "current tournament.bkst" file or whatever and resume whenever you like, regardless of how many tournaments have run in between.

[BrendanJNorman]

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The speed that this guy is releasing is breath-taking - I really wish we could support him somehow.

I'm going to review Banksia on my website, so that'll get him a ton of new users, but still...

This GUI is going to the the dominant one for computer chess by end of 2020, I have no doubts.

Love it.



Really impressive work.

Thanks a lot for good words and help

Help is more than welcome and highly appreciated.

If you and other people write something about, tutorials, videos... please let us know, I would like to share on banksiagui.com

No problem, I'll let you know.

[phhnguyen]

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14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

For me, a bigger number is a bit better since I have some chance to clear some bugs (as well as adding some new ones ) and add some new features.

BTW, what do you mean "saving multiple ongoing tournaments"? Can you explain more? Thanks.

He means, say you have an ongoing 20 round swiss going on with 300 engines...this will take time.

What if he wants to pause that tournament and run a quick Stockfish gauntlet...he can't.

Have to finish the big swiss first.

Therefore, it'd be great to be able to save an ongoing tournament to a "current tournament.bkst" file or whatever and resume whenever you like, regardless of how many tournaments have run in between.

Very interesting idea! Sure I will implement it. Thanks all a lot.

[satyendrainbhopal]

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14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

For me, a bigger number is a bit better since I have some chance to clear some bugs (as well as adding some new ones ) and add some new features.

BTW, what do you mean "saving multiple ongoing tournaments"? Can you explain more? Thanks.

He means, say you have an ongoing 20 round swiss going on with 300 engines...this will take time.

What if he wants to pause that tournament and run a quick Stockfish gauntlet...he can't.

Have to finish the big swiss first.

Therefore, it'd be great to be able to save an ongoing tournament to a "current tournament.bkst" file or whatever and resume whenever you like, regardless of how many tournaments have run in between.

Very interesting idea! Sure I will implement it. Thanks all a lot.

I am very glad to see great app designers.. wonderful rock

[Laskos]

Version 0.13 released


1) Bugs fixed: almost all known bugs so far, including (serious ones):
- Crashed when creating a database and/or open games from databases in some systems
- Could not parse some PGN games
- Ruled O-O+ and O-O-O+ as illegal moves
- Did not swap multi-timers when changing engines’ sides in tournaments


2) Some small improvements/adjustments

3) New features:
- Open PGN games from URLs
- Analyze games using multi engines (just select multi engines as bellow illustration)

14 Is A "Lucky Number" for me I will await the release of update GUI v0.14..any news on saving multiple ongoing tournaments in the Banksia GUI? Thx AR

The speed that this guy is releasing is breath-taking - I really wish we could support him somehow.

I'm going to review Banksia on my website, so that'll get him a ton of new users, but still...

This GUI is going to the the dominant one for computer chess by end of 2020, I have no doubts.

Love it.



Really impressive work.

Yes, isn't the speed of development and quality amazing? This guy in weeks is doing what other entire groups of developers are doing in years.

[phhnguyen]

Thanks all for good words
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I have started working to show engine icons/logos. There is some information I don’t know.

Q: Are there (semi) standards about icons/logos on:
- sizes
- image types (png, gif, jpeg)?
- names (same names with their engines)?
- paths (same folders with their engines)?

Basically I am finding if chess GUIs could automatically detect those icons or users have to set up them manually.

Thanks in advance

[Ferdy]

Version 0.13 released


1) Bugs fixed: almost all known bugs so far, including (serious ones):
- Crashed when creating a database and/or open games from databases in some systems
- Could not parse some PGN games
- Ruled O-O+ and O-O-O+ as illegal moves
- Did not swap multi-timers when changing engines’ sides in tournaments


2) Some small improvements/adjustments

3) New features:
- Open PGN games from URLs
- Analyze games using multi engines (just select multi engines as bellow illustration)

It adjudicated this position with insufficient material. But this is not over yet, it should allow the game to continue.

[d]8/8/8/4k3/5BK1/8/6b1/8 b - - 0 78


The same situation for the following position, it also adjudicated this as insufficient material.

[d]8/8/8/4kN2/3n4/8/5K2/8 b - - 0 80

[BrendanJNorman]

Thanks all for good words
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I have started working to show engine icons/logos. There is some information I don’t know.

Q: Are there (semi) standards about icons/logos on:
- sizes
- image types (png, gif, jpeg)?
- names (same names with their engines)?
- paths (same folders with their engines)?

Basically I am finding if chess GUIs could automatically detect those icons or users have to set up them manually.

Thanks in advance

Arena allows you to select and assign your engine logo, while Fritz requires the engine to be in .BMP format, in the same folder and have the exact same name as the engine file.

Obviously the Arena approach is more user friendly.