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   scid interaction
   9
  10 - Rewrite ics.el
  11
  12 - Make use of the my-color data in chess-game.el to ensure that I only
  13   do what I should be doing
  14
  15 - After somebody sends me "name", I need a responding event to tell
  16   them my name
  17
  18 - Allow the user to request a move retraction (ala takeback)
  19
  20 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  21   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  22   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  23   handle cursor-type with that display.
  24
  25 - There is presently no way to start a new game!
  26
  27 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  28
  29 - Resize ascii windows after popup, so that the whole board is
  30   minimally visible
  31
  32 - Need a way to request a draw
  33
  34 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  35   tells the engine not to resign.
  36
  37 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  38   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  39
  40 - Auto-raise the chess-images frame, if it's being displayed as a
  41   separate frame.
  42
  43 - Create a to-text rendering interface for all chess game objects.
  44   So, chess-game-to-string would use PGN, etc.
  45
  46 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  47
  48 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  49   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  50   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  51   original board from the copied board.
  52
  53 - Make the mode-line much more informative
  54
  55 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  56
  57 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  58   piece is selected.
  59
  60 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  61   a game object
  62
  63 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  64
  65 - M-w on a display should kill appropriately (i.e., kill to PGN for a
  66   game, to FEN for a position, etc).  C-y should likewise call the
  67   appropriate chess-display-set-... function based on the clipboard's
  68   contents.  Which might just be a plain algebraic string too!
  69
  70 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  71
  72 - Allow dragging of pieces
  73
  74 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
  75
  76 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
  77
  78 - Port image display code to XEmacs
  79
  80 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
  81
  82 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
  83
  84 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
  85   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
  86   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
  87   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
  88   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
  89   implement.
  90
  91 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
  92   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
  93   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
  94   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
  95
  96 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
  97   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
  98   might lead to an inferior position.
  99
 100 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 101   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 102   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 103   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 104   you for a player, not an opponent.
 105
 106 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 107   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 108   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 109   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 110   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 111   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 112   routine.
 113
 114 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 115   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 116   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 117   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 118   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.