BanksiaGUI is a freeware chess Graphical User Interface.
Changes v 0.50:
Fixed bugs:
Analysis may crash after working
Lichess bots are still buggy: sometimes the completed games are not released; stoped when they think their opponents lost by time; chat templates may not be saved
There is a bit of delay (max to 0.5s) when making each move from an opening book
Some minor bug fixes, some small improvements/adjustments
New features:
Display original names and authors of engines in Strings/Stats panel and as tooltips on Engine info panel
All panels’ top bars could be hidden. That could save some space, look more clean and tidy, avoid moving panels accidentally (but they are still resizable)
Image viewers: could show movies, live-camera
New dialog box to check and recover tournaments backup files
Lichess bots: challenging dialog box becomes easier to use with more information about Win/Draw/Loss, it can monitor and limit the number of challenges per 24h
The dialog box of Playing games is changed into a panel
ECA back to work with some bug fixes and improvements
Notes:
Showing names of engines and their authors in panels of Strings/Stats and Engine info is just a small improvement, usually, we don’t list such small improvements here. However, this time we list it as a new feature, just want to show our respects to the authors/developers of engines. Engines play very important roles in chess systems but so far it’s not easy to find their authors when playing. We prefer that information won’t take much precious space nor annoy users too much but still easily access and frequently be displayed. All engines, books, databases… in the download panel also come with authors names already (from previous versions)
Image viewers are pushed to limit by implementing abilities to show movies and cameras. Just remind again this feature is mainly for decoration as well as vs… being bored 😉
For BSG the user’s data is very precious. In the last versions, BSG applied multi ways to make tournament data be safer, from new/clever ways to write down, to create multiple backup files (by days and by times). In this release, BSG helps to verify and recover from those backup files in a visual and easy way
Be aware Lichess has many limitations about chats, challenges, requests… Recently Lichess’s authors confirmed that bots (from an IP address) can challenge max to 200 times within 24h. Thus the new feature of limitation in the Challenge box can help your bots adopt the new rules
We realized even the “Playing games” is one of the very useful features but rare to use. The main reason in previous versions it is displayed in a large pop-up dialog box that takes more space, covers some information, and makes BSG looks messy. Thus in this release, we compact it a bit, convert it into a panel that could be docked with other panels. It still requires a large space when displaying multi games but that is arrangeable, especially for users with modern large screens
Useless. Stick to Arena people.
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