Tournament window
Banksia GUI is built on top of Banksia – A chess tournament manager. Thus it is good for making and managing tournaments. […]
Viewing tournament on the fly – a big challenge of implementing
Banksia (the console program) can play well chess tournaments. It can run games concurrently. Banksia GUI is built on top of Banksia, […]
Design freeze
We have just supported a new function: “UCI_ShowWDL” – it is used for UCI engines to print out win-draw-lose information. Perhaps that […]
info json – a proposal to extend UCI protocol
To support the new generation of chess engines, we have created a new proposal to extend UCI protocol. The purpose is to […]
Support new trenches, techniques
Banksia GUI supports as much as possible new trenches, techniques such as Syzygy. In the below images, Banksia GUI uses local Syzygy […]
JSON files – the source of being highly flexible and customizable
Banksia console uses several JSON files to work. The first one (engine.json) keeps information about engines. The second one (tour.json) keeps information/settings […]
Auto-detect engines
BanksiaGUI is built based on Banksia console. One of our favorite features from Banksia console is that it can detect all engines […]
High-resolution graphics
We have inverted a lot of time/labor to make BanksiaGUI looks good in different systems. That is really challenges, especially for very […]
High customization
BanksiaGUI can customize highly a lot of things. For example, for graphics, users can freely change the background, board background, cells… using […]
The release day coming soon
When discussing on Leela chess Zero’s forum, a developer asked me when BanksiaGUI be released and I replied (with quick thinking) about […]