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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  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 - In the ics12 parser, create the position as part of the ply.  This
  50   will validate the move, and read in the correct starting position.
  51
  52 - Allow S in the display to send arbitrary text to the end
  53
  54 - Make chess-display-popup-in-... first class citizens
  55
  56 - Have chess-display-popup-in-frame autosize based on the content (if
  57   possible)
  58
  59 - There is an ambiguity in keyboard shortcutting between Bxc6 and bxc6
  60
  61 - Remove chess-display-boring-events, and instead use (not
  62   chess-display-interesting-events).  Otherwise, chess-display.el has
  63   to care about an ever growing set of non-display events.
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  66
  67 - Clean/rewrite ics.el
  68
  69 - Add support for ICS observing
  70
  71 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  72   playing, etc.
  73
  74 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  75
  76 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  77   chess.el is
  78
  79 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  80
  81 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  82   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  83   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  84
  85 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  86   the new generic functions.
  87
  88 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  89
  90 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  91   points; this will require database interaction support
  92
  93 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  94
  95 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  96   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  97   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  98   handle cursor-type with that display.
  99
 100 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
 101
 102 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 103   tells the engine not to resign.
 104
 105 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
 106   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
 107
 108 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
 109
 110 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
 111   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
 112   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
 113   original board from the copied board.
 114
 115 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
 116
 117 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
 118   piece is selected.
 119
 120 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 121   a game object
 122
 123 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 124
 125 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 126
 127 - Allow dragging of pieces
 128
 129 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 130
 131 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 132
 133 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 134
 135 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 136
 137 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 138
 139 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 140   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 141   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 142   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 143   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 144   implement.
 145
 146 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 147   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 148   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 149   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 150
 151 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 152   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 153   might lead to an inferior position.
 154
 155 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 156   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 157   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 158   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 159   you for a player, not an opponent.
 160
 161 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 162   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 163   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 164   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 165   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 166   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 167   routine.
 168
 169 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 170   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 171   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 172   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 173   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 174
 175                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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