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

   1 These are features scheduled for future 2.x releases.
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   5                            General Features
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   7 - Use TrueType or other chess fonts for displaying positions; this
   8   might be the best way of displaying positions on Windows
   9
  10 - Enable the chat module, and base its interface on what TNT does
  11
  12 - Merge chess-announce and chess-sound, and use style modules on top
  13   of the underlying module
  14
  15 - Create a generic chess-output interface, for outputting games to a
  16   particular format (PGN, HTML, LaTeX, etc)
  17
  18 - Display in the modeline which game in the database we're in, and
  19   what the positional evaluation is
  20
  21 - Add a `force' event for forcing an engine to move, and a command
  22   from chess-display to send this event
  23
  24 - If you are playing a puzzle game, and the engine is thinking, and
  25   you hit space to move to the next puzzle, then when the last move is
  26   finally received from the engine it causes an error.
  27
  28 - Clean up chess.el, and let people override the chess-default-* lists
  29
  30 - Write chess-descriptive.el, and have the code in general use
  31   chess-ply-to-string and chess-string-to-ply, so that users can use
  32   descriptive notationas an alternative to algebraic.
  33   (NOTE: this might proof problematic since descriptive move notation
  34    is ambigious if we don't have the full game information, since
  35    we need to destinguish between QR KR QN and KN.  So chess-descriptive-to-ply
  36    would need to use a game object as reference, rather than just a position.)
  37
  38 - Change chess-announce/sound so that it reads from the text rendition
  39   of the move; this way it will work with either descriptive or
  40   algebraic notation.  Also, chess-announce and chess-sound can be
  41   collapsed into one module, with different "styles" of announcing.
  42
  43 - Make ( create variations in a display, and keys to move into and out
  44   of them.  At the moment, variations are supported programmatically,
  45   but not in the UI.
  46
  47 - Make a display read-only mode, which allows people to view/browse
  48   but not alter a game.  This could be used for remoting displays in
  49   order that people on other X servers might observe a game.
  50
  51 - Implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule in chess-ply
  52
  53 - Port the code to XEmacs
  54
  55 - Find a way to display pieces on Windows platforms, or at least
  56   document how to build XPM support into Emacs for Windows
  57
  58 - Add a way to include the chess-ucb module in the list of default
  59   modules created via M-x chess.  Right now there is no facility for
  60   having two engines associated with a single game (and chess-link
  61   is not what we want in this case).
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  65                               ICS Client
  66
  67 - Add a completion function against logged in users
  68
  69 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  73                                PGN Mode
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  75 Maybe pgn-mode could just allow normal editing, and bind some keys
  76 to do special things. e.g., the mouse binding could work as normal,
  77 SPC could update the display. So if you do
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  79 1 e4 SPC
  80 you get the move displayed. Some binding could do redisplay anyway, e.g. C-l?
  81 Then, one could enter variations or such simply with ( or { and
  82 the display would update automatically.
  83 e.g., you do
  84 ( 15.e5 SPC Nf3 SPC )
  85 and you'd get three display updates, on e5 SPC, you get that
  86 ply, then the second one, and on ) you get the position before the
  87 variation. Move point into the variation again, and hit C-l and you
  88 get the pos where point is on.
  89
  90 There should be a forward-ply and backward-ply, maybe something like
  91 M-f / M-b, and C-u M-f for two plies forward?
  92
  93 Very nice would be a pcomplete-based completion fascility, so
  94 simply hit TAB at any point, and you get the right completion.
  95 Example:
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  97 [Event ...]
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  99 TAB 1.TAB ...
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 101 On first tab, the move number is inserted. On second, you get
 102 all possible moves in that position.
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 106                             Chess by Mail
 107
 108 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
 109   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
 110   after every move; use BBDB if available
 111
 112 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 113   chess games back and forth.
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 116
 117                          Database Interaction
 118
 119 - Enable UI commands in chess-display to interact with databases.  As
 120   of 2.0, this support is programmatic only.
 121
 122 - Follow what `edit-env' does, in order to make chess-query.el.
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 126                           Training/Tutorials
 127
 128 - Write a scripted chess-tutorial.
 129
 130 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 131
 132 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 133   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 134   might lead to an inferior position.
 135
 136 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 140                           Analysis features
 141
 142 - Add slots to each position for keeping track of positional
 143   evaluation (these values can be automatically determined when
 144   parsing ICS12)
 145
 146 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 147   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 148   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 149   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 150   kibitzing feature).
 151
 152 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 153   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 154   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 155   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 156   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 157   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 158   routine.
 159
 160 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 161
 162 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 163   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 164   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 165   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 169                            Other variations
 170
 171 - Need a way to play bughouse/crazyhouse games.
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 175                             Other features
 176
 177 - Keeping a player database in BBDB
 178
 179 - Managing a tournament, setting up pairings, calculating ratings