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Version 0.56 (World Cup 2022 version) released Besides some minor bug fixes, many small improvements and changes, there are some new things, including: Support Apple Silicone with a binary for native Apple silicone Opening books in the default engine folder (it is a sub-folder “engines” in the prog...

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Could you tell me more about that tournament? Say, which engines are being used? What timer? What results? You may enter those info or make some screenshots.

Thanks for the idea!

It has been changed/fixed for the next release

Thanks for the report. The bug is fixed for the next release.

Short answers: no and yes!

No: I love to support electronic chessboards, however I don’t have anyone and don’t have budgets for them.

Yes: Sure I will support whenever I have one with some tech-description.

Tournament Creator is a web app that can create and manage tournaments for games such as chess, go, tennis, and esports… Users could select a tournament type, the number of players, and their names, Tournament Creator will create the tournament. Later users can enter the results of games and Tournam...

https://youtu.be/JucykaAqr2c https://youtube.com/channel/UC6Y6w2k8Yp0GQpo0n2Cc6xQ https://horvathgadorme.wixsite.com/horviguniversalchess You may create new topics in the forum Tournaments and Matches for videos about your tournaments. This topic is about videos of guides, usages for BanksiaGUI, th...

Version 0.55 released Besides some minor bug fixes, many small improvements and changes, there are some new things, the majority about databases, including: Network engines can be used for ECA and Analyse Analyze to find blunders Graphs: curve lines (smooth curved lines - good for eyes); line areas...

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Could you tell me which OS, Lc0 version you are using? Could you send me the engine log of that tournament? (to create the tournament's engine log, in the New tournament dialog box, click the button Games/Log, tick the box Engines and git it a path name).

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wtime is the total time the white side can use to compute a move. If an engine uses more time than that value, it will lose by time.

winc is the amount of adding time that will be added to the time left AFTER making that move.

I think engines typically consider only wtime/btime and ignore winc/binc.

Megabase 3.45 M game Books in Polyglot format, converted from the collection of Ed Schroer. Select: - games with Elo from 2000 - minimum length from 30 - node repeated from 2 Add: - to 15 plies Score factors: - win x 3, draw x 1, loss x 0 Book size: 1.2m nodes, 19 MB unzip, 8.5 MB zip You can downlo...

Using Stockfish chess with Banksia GUI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLwscKXyO8 Using Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) with Banksia GUI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIn5kM3Eta0 Using Banksia GUI as a Lichess bot manager to play multi bots, multi-games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCvQPM4VgkY Arran...

I have been testing BSG on Ubuntu 18.04 for a while, focusing on tournaments + graphs. So far no problem. Thus it is best if you could give me instructions on how to reproduce the bugs. Otherwise, some screenshots of those bugs should be helpful too. Thanks

Thanks a lot for the feedback, Matthies! As we have discussed already, I have been struggling to reproduce those crashes as you have described with RubiChess on Linux. I have run some tests in several Linux systems but still could not reproduce the issue. If you could, please: - Try yourself on anot...

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You could post PGN games or FENs, using pgn/fen tags: [Event "banksia game"] [Site "*"] [Date "2022.07.08"] [Round "*"] [White "Aarland, Stein"] [Black "Remlinger, L."] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [TimeControl "depth: 100"] [Time...

You may embed media links (such as Youtube videos), using those links directly or store them in media tags:

1) Query full games OCGDB databases divide data into 4 main tables, linked by ID: - Players: player info such as names, Elo - Events: event info such as names, Elo - Sites: site info such as names, Elo - Games: all games info such as results, lengths, FENs, Moves To query full games we need to join...

Megabase 3.45 M game Books in OOBS format, converted from the collection of Ed Schroer. You can download it from BanksiaGUI (menu->Tools->Download)

Direct download link:
https://banksiagui.com/dl/book-mb3m45.obs.db3.zip

Lichess 2.4 million puzzles, in OCGDB format, converted from the collection of Lichess. You can download it from BanksiaGUI (menu->Tools->Download)

Direct download link:

https://banksiagui.com/dl/lichesspuzzle ... db.db3.zip

Megabase 3.45 M games in OCGDB format, converted from the collection of Ed Schroer. You can download it from BanksiaGUI (menu->Tools->Download)

Direct download link:
https://banksiagui.com/dl/mb-3.45.ocgdb.db3.zip

Thanks. The bug is fixed for the next release

Thanks for the idea. I will implement it

Thanks for the info.

I have uploaded a new binary for macOS and it is probably fixed that bug. Please download.

Thanks for the report.

Could older versions (say, 0.53) run on your computer?

If you could, upgrade your computer OS to the latest one (12.3.1) and try again.

Thanks

Good idea, thanks. I will implement it soon!

Version 0.54 released Besides some minor bug fixes, many small improvements, and changes, there are some new things, including: Show boards & brief info in the tournament panel as tooltips The human can play in tournaments (re-implement the feature) Use online EGTB (Lichess or Chessdb) for adju...

The current version 0.53 has supported MultiPV displaying already

Thanks for the report.

The issue has been fixed for the new release.

Thanks for the report. I have been struggling to reproduce the issue. I don't have the exact 11 games of Bobby Exchange Lopez. Instead, I have downloaded 12 games from Lichess (at https://lichess.org/study/uueHZZeY). The ECA tree has been expanded to 708 nodes and looks reasonable. Could you try wit...

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There are two problems with that game:
- PGN missing the tag Variant
- BSG has a bug in the second castle move (20. ... O-O-O)

The bug has been fixed for the next release

Thanks for the suggestion. BSG has supported some book formats: - PGN. Mainly for tournaments - EPD. Mainly for tournaments - Polyglot (.bin) - OOBS (Open Opening Book Standard, .obs.db3) BSG also supports some online books (from Lichess and chessdb). We won't support other books such as CTG, ABK, B...

Thanks for the suggestion. It has been implemented for the next release

Thanks for the idea. It will be implemented for the next release.

To make an engine play, you need to create an engine match or a tournament. Create an engine match: - Create a new game (menu -> File -> New Game) - In the Game setup dialog box, select engines for both sides - Click OK Create a tournament: - Open New Tournament dialog box (menu -> Tournaments -> Ne...

On my computer, the score bar works well. Did you see the cursor (the green rectangle on the left side of the board) moving? Typically, it moves clearly for unbalance games.

Thanks for the feedback. It is fixed for the next release

You are the master now

"Games per pair" is just a record, using when generating only, not affect to the current number of generated games.

I think the easiest way is to generate a new and similar tournament then merge it to the current one to have double games.

Hey there, I've recently moved from Arena Chess to Banksia for creating engine vs engine matches. I really like this GUI, but I'm having a few problems doing some of the things I usually do in Arena and was wondering if someone could please help me. Thanks for using and feedback. 1) I set up a 4x4 ...

It will be a long explanation. I am going to create a new topic for it. I need time to write too (I am not good at writing). At the moment, you may read the blog about it first.

Q: How to change the value of an option of an engine? A: Open Settings dialogbox (menu -> File -> Settings), visit tab Engines, select the engine (by clicking on it). The second table is the option one. Scroll the table to find the option you want. You may click on the header of column 1 (name) to s...

Q: How to remove an engine?
A: Open Settings dialogbox (menu -> File -> Settings), visit tab Engines, select the engine (by clicking on it). There is a button with symbol- (minute) on the top-right. Click it

Phew!

Thank Alex

Q: Why engines have the field color? What does it use for?
A: Colors are widely used for visual tasks with engines thus users can quickly distinguish between engines. They are:
- Arrows (thinking arrows)
- Graphs

Q: How to change name of an engine? How to change path, color of an engine? A: Open Settings dialog box (menu -> File -> Settings), tab Engines. Find the engine you want to change the name in the table. Double click on the name, an edit box will appear. Type the new name you want then enter. Simila...

Q: How to install a chess engine into BanksiaGUI? A: There are two ways: 1) Drag and drop (the easiest and fastest way): just drag the engine from the File Browser and drop into Banksia GUI (anywhere). A pop up will appear for a few seconds. All are automatically. 2) Open Settings dialogbox (menu ->...

Q: How to install and run Banksia GUI?
A: You don’t need to install it. After downloading, it is just a zip file, you may unzip it by any zip tool and it is ready to run.
To run BanksiaGUI, just find and run the executive file. It is banksiagui.exe for Windows, BanksiaGui for macOS and Linux.

This topic is FAQ about using Banksia GUI. I am going to post some questions I have received and answers. You may post your questions here too. They will be collected for Wiki page.

Thanks. All is clear!

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