Banksia GUI forums

Long time no bug report... here it comes: Banksia sends "isready" after setting the options but it doesn't wait for the engines answer "readyok". Instead it directly sets the position and starts the game. Option setting can take some time (e.g. setting the hash needs clearing the...

Two more problems (tested with latest 0.58 but also in older releases) 1. In settings / general the "score in white view" option isn't an option anymore but seems to be part of the radio button group. Means: If you enable "score in white view", neither "pawn unit" nor &...

This time no bug report but a question: What is this "Margin per move" parameter in the time control settings? I could just guess that a time forfeit smaller than "margin per move" doesn't count as a loss?

Regards, Andreas

Next two problems/bugs/feature requests: 1. The engines log file logengins.txt has logs of many different (replayed) tournaments, so "View engine-log of game x" doesn't load the correct log of game x of the last tournament but it opens the log of the first "game x" it finds in th...

Next bug: Opening a pgn containing chess960 games. 1. Download and expand FRC games of SF 15.1 played at CCRL: http://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404FRC/games-by-engine-commented/Stockfish_15_1.commented.[1000].pgn.7z 2a. Open the pgn in BanksiaGui 0.56 with option "standard chess": Database op...

Reading in talkchess that people go back to 0.55 cause "0.56. doesn't work correct(ly)". In my opinion the only way to improve Banksia GUI (in the sense of making it stable) is to make it open source. I could search for the bug and probably fix it myself instead of arguing with you if ther...

But... the problem with the wrong stats of my old engines is still there even with 0.56D. The file you sent me has the wrong numbers already, thus we can't do anything with it. I guess those wrong numbers were caused by parsing engine info when the code has bugs in the previous version. Just ignore...

I just did that even before I read what you wrote here and indeed the problem with big RAM usage is gone. Or at least far better even after adding some book files in the settings and a 5-men-syzygy folder. And the crash when playing my version 0.1 seems also fixed. But... the problem with the wrong ...

Okay, I will retest with version D when I find some time. About the 7GB RAM: It was definitely no engine process hanging. The RAM was taken immediately after start of Banksia GUI. No engine was running at that time. I even decreased the general Hash setting to 128MB and disabled Syzygy and Banksia s...

Okay, after some time not using Banksia I have downloaded 0.56 for Windows and run some tournament. In this tournament all my versions of RubiChess starting from 0.1 up to current 20221120 were included. Find below some things that I noticed. 1. Version 0.1 of my engine seems to crash Banksia GUI. I...

Hi Pham. You misunderstood. All the bugs that I have reported in the past are probably solved (as far as I remember) but... with every new version it seems that new bugs were introduced and some are quite obvious. And this is what some other users are saying, e.g. in some german computerchess forum....

Hello guys. I'm using Arena GUI for a long time but it is has some bugs and is out of development, so I would really like to switch to BanksiaGUI. In fact I already switched to B. on my Linux machine cause the Arena Linux port doesn't work well on my 4k monitor setup. But BanksiaGUI still is far fro...

Okay, it works in 0.54 when I manually add the variant tag. So my suggestion would be: If the tag is missing: Could you detect and set variant by reading the FEN? Like set chess960 when the FEN has [a-hA-H] castle flags instead of [kKqQ]? That would make it compatible to the TCEC pgns. Thanks for yo...

Hi.

My first post...
I tried to import the PGN from this game https://tcec-chess.com/#div=frc4t&game=154&season=21 into Banksia but it seems to have problems with the castle move 10. O-O. Banksia only moves the rook to g1 instead of doing the complete castle.

Regards, Andreas