code.delx.au - gnu-emacs-elpa/blob - TODO

   1 - Feature work remaining:
   2
   3   annotations
   4   chatting
   5   clocks
   6   bughouse/crazyhouse
   7   analysis/highlight tools
   8   database interaction (chess-file.el, chess-scid.el)
   9   full ICS interaction
  10
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  12
  13 - Have chess-algebraic-to-ply use chess-ply-create, since I can't
  14   trust :check and :checkmate anyway.  Or, break chess-ply-create into
  15   multiple functions that get reused by chess-algebraic.
  16
  17 - Make sure that when chess-algebraic-to-ply is used, and then
  18   chess-pos-move is used, that I don't redo all the checks.  There
  19   should be a way of "blessing" a ply.
  20
  21 - Make sure chess-pos-move does full validation.
  22
  23 - In M-x chess, if chess-images is being used, ensure that
  24   chess-images-directory is valid, otherwise fall back on chess-ics1.
  25
  26 - Only use "chess-engine-game" in chess-engine.el.  All other modules
  27   should call "(chess-engine-game nil)".
  28
  29 - In chess-fen-to-pos, syntax check incoming FEN strings
  30
  31 - Add the capacity to abort/resign when there is no engine
  32
  33 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  34
  35 - Make use of the my-color data in chess-game.el to ensure that I only
  36   do what I should be doing
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  39
  40 - Clean/rewrite ics.el
  41
  42 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  43   playing, etc.
  44
  45 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  46
  47 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  48   chess.el is
  49
  50 - Profile!  Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as
  51   possible.
  52
  53 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  54   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  55   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  56
  57 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  58   the new generic functions.
  59
  60 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  61
  62 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  63   points; this will require database interaction support
  64
  65 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  66
  67 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  68   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  69   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  70   handle cursor-type with that display.
  71
  72 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  73
  74 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  75   tells the engine not to resign.
  76
  77 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  78   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  79
  80 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  81
  82 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  83   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  84   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  85   original board from the copied board.
  86
  87 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  88
  89 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  90   piece is selected.
  91
  92 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  93   a game object
  94
  95 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  96
  97 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  98
  99 - Allow dragging of pieces
 100
 101 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 102
 103 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 104
 105 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 106
 107 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 108
 109 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 110
 111 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 112   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 113   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 114   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 115   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 116   implement.
 117
 118 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 119   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 120   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 121   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 122
 123 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 124   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 125   might lead to an inferior position.
 126
 127 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 128   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 129   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 130   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 131   you for a player, not an opponent.
 132
 133 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 134   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 135   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 136   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 137   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 138   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 139   routine.
 140
 141 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 142   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 143   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 144   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 145   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.