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