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 - In M-x chess, if chess-images is being used, ensure that
  11   chess-images-directory is valid, otherwise fall back on chess-ics1.
  12
  13 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  14   chess.el is
  15
  16 - Profile!
  17
  18 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  19
  20 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  21
  22 - In chess-fen-to-pos, syntax check incoming FEN strings
  23
  24 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  25   points
  26
  27 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  28   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  29   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  30
  31 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  32
  33 - Add the capacity to abort/resign when there is no engine
  34
  35 - Rewrite ics.el
  36
  37 - Make use of the my-color data in chess-game.el to ensure that I only
  38   do what I should be doing
  39
  40 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  41   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  42   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  43   handle cursor-type with that display.
  44
  45 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  46
  47 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  48   tells the engine not to resign.
  49
  50 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  51   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  52
  53 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  54
  55 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  56   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  57   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  58   original board from the copied board.
  59
  60 - Make the mode-line much more informative
  61
  62 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  63
  64 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  65   piece is selected.
  66
  67 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  68   a game object
  69
  70 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  71
  72 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  73
  74 - Allow dragging of pieces
  75
  76 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
  77
  78 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
  79
  80 - Port image display code to XEmacs
  81
  82 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
  83
  84 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
  85
  86 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
  87   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
  88   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
  89   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
  90   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
  91   implement.
  92
  93 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
  94   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
  95   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
  96   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
  97
  98 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
  99   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 100   might lead to an inferior position.
 101
 102 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 103   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 104   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 105   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 106   you for a player, not an opponent.
 107
 108 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 109   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 110   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 111   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 112   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 113   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 114   routine.
 115
 116 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 117   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 118   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 119   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 120   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.