code.delx.au - gnu-emacs-elpa/blob - TODO

   1 These are features scheduled for future 2.x releases.
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   5                            General Features
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   7 - Enable the chat module, and base its interface on what TNT does
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   9 - Merge chess-announce and chess-sound, and use style modules on top
  10   of the underlying module
  11
  12 - Create a generic chess-output interface, for outputting games to a
  13   particular format (PGN, HTML, LaTeX, etc)
  14
  15 - Display in the modeline which game in the database we're in, and
  16   what the positional evaluation is
  17
  18 - Add a `force' event for forcing an engine to move, and a command
  19   from chess-display to send this event
  20
  21 - If you are playing a puzzle game, and the engine is thinking, and
  22   you hit space to move to the next puzzle, then when the last move is
  23   finally received from the engine it causes an error.
  24
  25 - Clean up chess.el, and let people override the chess-default-* lists
  26
  27 - Write chess-descriptive.el, and have the code in general use
  28   chess-ply-to-string and chess-string-to-ply, so that users can use
  29   descriptive notationas an alternative to algebraic.
  30
  31 - Write chess-html.el, for outputting a game to HTML
  32
  33 - Write chess-latex.el, for outputting a game to LaTeX
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  35 - Use TrueType or other chess fonts for displaying positions; this
  36   might be the best way of displaying positions on Windows
  37
  38 - Change chess-announce/sound so that it reads from the text rendition
  39   of the move; this way it will work with either descriptive or
  40   algebraic notation.  Also, chess-announce and chess-sound can be
  41   collapsed into one module, with different "styles" of announcing.
  42
  43 - Write chess-epd.el, which is based on chess-fen, and is also a
  44   database module for accessing positions within an EPD file
  45
  46 - Make ( create variations in a display, and keys to move into and out
  47   of them.  At the moment, variations are supported programmatically,
  48   but not in the UI.
  49
  50 - Make a display read-only mode, which allows people to view/browse
  51   but not alter a game.  This could be used for remoting displays in
  52   order that people on other X servers might observe a game.
  53
  54 - Implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule in chess-ply
  55
  56 - Port the code to XEmacs
  57
  58 - Find a way to display pieces on Windows platforms, or at least
  59   document how to build XPM support into Emacs for Windows
  60
  61 - Add a way to include the chess-ucb module in the list of default
  62   modules created via M-x chess.  Right now there is no facility for
  63   having two engines associated with a single game (and chess-link
  64   is not what we want in this case).
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  68                               ICS Client
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  70 - Add a completion function against logged in users
  71
  72 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  76                             Chess by Mail
  77
  78 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  79   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  80   after every move; use BBDB if available
  81
  82 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  83   chess games back and forth.
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  87                          Database Interaction
  88
  89 - Enable UI commands in chess-display to interact with databases.  As
  90   of 2.0, this support is programmatic only.
  91
  92 - Follow what `edit-env' does, in order to make chess-query.el.
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  96                           Training/Tutorials
  97
  98 - Write a scripted chess-tutorial.
  99
 100 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 101
 102 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 103   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 104   might lead to an inferior position.
 105
 106 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 110                           Analysis features
 111
 112 - Add slots to each position for keeping track of positional
 113   evaluation (these values can be automatically determined when
 114   parsing ICS12)
 115
 116 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 117   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 118   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 119   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 120   kibitzing feature).
 121
 122 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 123   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 124   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 125   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 126   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 127   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 128   routine.
 129
 130 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 131
 132 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 133   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 134   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 135   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 139                            Other variations
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 141 - Need a way to play bughouse/crazyhouse games.
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 145                             Other features
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 147 - Keeping a player database in BBDB
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 149 - Managing a tournament, setting up pairings, calculating ratings