Banksia 3.0

Warning: all releases here are console programs. For chess GUI (based on this program), visit and download at https://banksiagui.com

New features:

• Swiss tournament
• detect and opening names, variants, ECOs (save to PGN files)
• profile: detect the number of threads, memory and CPU usage for engines
• adjudication: finish a game if its length exceeds the given limit or the position hit by Syzygy tablebase
• improve JSON updating: keep almost all user-added information (such as notes/comments)

Banksia 2.7

New features:

• inclusive players: lock matches to given players and sides. If it is on, a match is counted/played only if it has at least one player in the inclusive list, playing in a given side
• more info for tournament stats (average moves, depths, nodes, time, fails...)
• save search info to PGN: depth, score, time. It is controllable (on/off)
• more ways to control logging: a log (PGN, engine logs) can be stored in one or multi-files
• fix bugs and improve engine managements

Banksia 2.5

• multi ways to select openings: new for each match, same for a pair, one for all matches
• override options for central controlling
• match statistics LOS & error margin
• fix a bug to accept missing default in UCI options

Banksia 2.2

• knockout tournament
• resumable the last tournament
• improve structures of JSON files to be easier to read, edit
• improve generating JSON files
• fix bugs on JSON generator and the interface