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 - Make sure that chess-search-position can find a rook move due to
  24   castling.  For example, O-O includes Rhf1.  So,
  25   (chess-search-position ... "f1" ?R) should return the h1 rook, if it
  26   could reach that square legally by castling.
  27
  28 - In M-x chess, if chess-images is being used, ensure that
  29   chess-images-directory is valid, otherwise fall back on chess-ics1.
  30
  31 - Only use "chess-engine-game" in chess-engine.el.  All other modules
  32   should call "(chess-engine-game nil)".
  33
  34 - In chess-fen-to-pos, syntax check incoming FEN strings
  35
  36 - Add the capacity to abort/resign when there is no engine
  37
  38 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  39
  40 - Make use of the my-color data in chess-game.el to ensure that I only
  41   do what I should be doing
  42
  43 - Add `chess-display-read-only', to indicate that no changes can be
  44   made to the displayed chess board.  This would be good for cloned
  45   displays, and when observing a bot (or two engines head-to-head).
  46
  47 - Remove `chess-illegal', and just use plain error.
  48
  49 - Allow S in the display to send arbitrary text to the end
  50
  51 - Make chess-display-popup-in-... first class citizens
  52
  53 - Have chess-display-popup-in-frame autosize based on the content (if
  54   possible)
  55
  56 - There is an ambiguity in keyboard shortcutting between Bxc6 and bxc6
  57
  58 - Remove chess-display-boring-events, and instead use (not
  59   chess-display-interesting-events).  Otherwise, chess-display.el has
  60   to care about an ever growing set of non-display events.
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  63
  64 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  65   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  66   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  67   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  68   kibitzing feature).
  69
  70 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  71
  72 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  73   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  74
  75 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  76   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  77   this type in Gnus.
  78
  79 - Clean/rewrite ics.el
  80
  81 - Add support for ICS observing
  82
  83 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  84   playing, etc.
  85
  86 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  87
  88 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  89   chess.el is
  90
  91 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  92
  93 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  94   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  95   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  96
  97 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  98   the new generic functions.
  99
 100 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
 101
 102 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
 103   points; this will require database interaction support
 104
 105 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
 106
 107 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 108   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 109   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 110   handle cursor-type with that display.
 111
 112 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
 113
 114 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 115   tells the engine not to resign.
 116
 117 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
 118   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
 119
 120 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
 121
 122 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
 123   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
 124   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
 125   original board from the copied board.
 126
 127 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
 128
 129 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
 130   piece is selected.
 131
 132 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 133   a game object
 134
 135 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 136
 137 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 138
 139 - Allow dragging of pieces
 140
 141 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 142
 143 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 144
 145 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 146
 147 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 148
 149 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 150
 151 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 152   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 153   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 154   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 155   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 156   implement.
 157
 158 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 159   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 160   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 161   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 162
 163 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 164   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 165   might lead to an inferior position.
 166
 167 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 168   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 169   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 170   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 171   you for a player, not an opponent.
 172
 173 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 174   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 175   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 176   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 177   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 178   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 179   routine.
 180
 181 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 182   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 183   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 184   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 185   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 186
 187 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 188
 189                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 190
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