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)
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  11
  12 - undo is not working with gnuchess
  13
  14
  15 - test making an en passant capture
  16
  17
  18 - if I parse disambiguating information from chess-algebraic, store it
  19   in the ply.  Then, in ply-to-algebraic it won't need to be
  20   calculated.  Also, I can then easily announce it in chess-announce
  21
  22 - when announcing abiguous pieces, name the rank/file ("e pawn")
  23
  24
  25 - restrict keyboard shorcutting so that it only looks if the move is
  26   related to the given letter
  27
  28 - modify displays and engines so they ONLY keep game objects; thus
  29   set-start-position would become just set-position
  30
  31 - Why doesn't S-b produce [B] in the keyboard shortcutting?
  32
  33
  34 - distinguish between chess-display-set-game and
  35   chess-display-set-game*.  The latter detaches and sets a new game
  36   object.  The former just overwrites the current game object.
  37
  38
  39 - the game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  40
  41 - detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  42
  43
  44 - in chess-ply-create signal an error on invalid plies describing why
  45
  46 - for network transports, if an illegal move is encountered, report
  47   this with "illegal move: REASON"
  48
  49
  50 - incorporate the .wav files from xchat's sounds that chess-sound
  51   currently doesn't have
  52
  53
  54 - devise a better scheme for printing messages (use a catalog?) and
  55   for when engines need to ask questions
  56
  57 - there needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  58   game into an unplayable state right now
  59
  60 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  61   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  62
  63 - in chess-ics use a server-alist, and make the default handle be
  64   "guest".  Allow a password to be specified, or a filename containing
  65   the password
  66
  67   (HOST [PORT HANDLE PASSWORD HELPER HELPER-ARGS...])
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  70
  71 - Break my dependency on cl
  72
  73 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  74
  75 - Read-only mode needs to be a bit more vigorous.  There's nothing
  76   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  77
  78 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  79   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  80   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  81   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  82   kibitzing feature).
  83
  84 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  85
  86 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  87   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  88
  89 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  90   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  91   this type in Gnus.
  92
  93 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  94
  95 - Add support for ICS observing
  96
  97 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  98   playing, etc.
  99
 100 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
 101   chess.el is
 102
 103 - make sure, if Bxc6 and bxc6 are possible, and the user types "bc6",
 104   that bxc6 is chosen
 105
 106 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
 107
 108 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
 109   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
 110   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
 111
 112 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
 113   the new generic functions.
 114
 115 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
 116
 117 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
 118   points; this will require database interaction support
 119
 120 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
 121
 122 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 123   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 124   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 125   handle cursor-type with that display.
 126
 127 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
 128
 129 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 130   tells the engine not to resign.
 131
 132 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
 133   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
 134
 135 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
 136
 137 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
 138   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
 139   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
 140   original board from the copied board.
 141
 142 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
 143
 144 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
 145   piece is selected.
 146
 147 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 148   a game object
 149
 150 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 151
 152 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 153
 154 - Allow dragging of pieces
 155
 156 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 157
 158 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 159
 160 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 161
 162 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 163
 164 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 165
 166 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 167   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 168   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 169   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 170   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 171   implement.
 172
 173 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 174   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 175   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 176   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 177
 178 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 179   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 180   might lead to an inferior position.
 181
 182 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 183   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 184   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 185   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 186   you for a player, not an opponent.
 187
 188 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 189   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 190   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 191   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 192   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 193   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 194   routine.
 195
 196 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 197   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 198   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 199   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 200   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 201
 202 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 203
 204                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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