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
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  11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  12
  13 - detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  14
  15 - Why doesn't S-b produce [B] in the keyboard shortcutting?
  16
  17 - chess-sound announcements are broken
  18
  19 - the game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  20
  21 - when announcing abiguous pieces, name the rank/file ("e pawn")
  22
  23 - there needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  24   game into an unplayable state right now
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  27
  28 - Read-only mode needs to be a bit more vigorous.  There's nothing
  29   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  30
  31 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  32   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  33   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  34   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  35   kibitzing feature).
  36
  37 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  38
  39 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  40   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  41
  42 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  43   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  44   this type in Gnus.
  45
  46 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  47
  48 - Add support for ICS observing
  49
  50 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  51   playing, etc.
  52
  53 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  54
  55 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  56   chess.el is
  57
  58 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  59
  60 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  61   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  62   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  63
  64 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  65   the new generic functions.
  66
  67 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  68
  69 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  70   points; this will require database interaction support
  71
  72 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  73
  74 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  75   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  76   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  77   handle cursor-type with that display.
  78
  79 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  80
  81 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  82   tells the engine not to resign.
  83
  84 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  85   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  86
  87 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  88
  89 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  90   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  91   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  92   original board from the copied board.
  93
  94 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  95
  96 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  97   piece is selected.
  98
  99 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 100   a game object
 101
 102 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 103
 104 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 105
 106 - Allow dragging of pieces
 107
 108 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 109
 110 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 111
 112 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 113
 114 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 115
 116 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 117
 118 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 119   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 120   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 121   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 122   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 123   implement.
 124
 125 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 126   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 127   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 128   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 129
 130 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 131   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 132   might lead to an inferior position.
 133
 134 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 135   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 136   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 137   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 138   you for a player, not an opponent.
 139
 140 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 141   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 142   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 143   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 144   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 145   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 146   routine.
 147
 148 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 149   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 150   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 151   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 152   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 153
 154 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 155
 156                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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