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 - Use TrueType or other chess fonts for displaying positions; this
   8   might be the best way of displaying positions on Windows
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  10 - Enable the chat module, and base its interface on what TNT does
  11
  12 - Merge chess-announce and chess-sound, and use style modules on top
  13   of the underlying module
  14
  15 - Create a generic chess-output interface, for outputting games to a
  16   particular format (PGN, HTML, LaTeX, etc)
  17
  18 - Display in the modeline which game in the database we're in, and
  19   what the positional evaluation is
  20
  21 - Add a `force' event for forcing an engine to move, and a command
  22   from chess-display to send this event
  23
  24 - If you are playing a puzzle game, and the engine is thinking, and
  25   you hit space to move to the next puzzle, then when the last move is
  26   finally received from the engine it causes an error.
  27
  28 - Clean up chess.el, and let people override the chess-default-* lists
  29
  30 - Write chess-descriptive.el, and have the code in general use
  31   chess-ply-to-string and chess-string-to-ply, so that users can use
  32   descriptive notationas an alternative to algebraic.
  33
  34 - Change chess-announce/sound so that it reads from the text rendition
  35   of the move; this way it will work with either descriptive or
  36   algebraic notation.  Also, chess-announce and chess-sound can be
  37   collapsed into one module, with different "styles" of announcing.
  38
  39 - Write chess-epd.el, which is based on chess-fen, and is also a
  40   database module for accessing positions within an EPD file
  41
  42 - Make ( create variations in a display, and keys to move into and out
  43   of them.  At the moment, variations are supported programmatically,
  44   but not in the UI.
  45
  46 - Make a display read-only mode, which allows people to view/browse
  47   but not alter a game.  This could be used for remoting displays in
  48   order that people on other X servers might observe a game.
  49
  50 - Implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule in chess-ply
  51
  52 - Port the code to XEmacs
  53
  54 - Find a way to display pieces on Windows platforms, or at least
  55   document how to build XPM support into Emacs for Windows
  56
  57 - Add a way to include the chess-ucb module in the list of default
  58   modules created via M-x chess.  Right now there is no facility for
  59   having two engines associated with a single game (and chess-link
  60   is not what we want in this case).
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  64                               ICS Client
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  66 - Add a completion function against logged in users
  67
  68 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  72                             Chess by Mail
  73
  74 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  75   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  76   after every move; use BBDB if available
  77
  78 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  79   chess games back and forth.
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  83                          Database Interaction
  84
  85 - Enable UI commands in chess-display to interact with databases.  As
  86   of 2.0, this support is programmatic only.
  87
  88 - Follow what `edit-env' does, in order to make chess-query.el.
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  92                           Training/Tutorials
  93
  94 - Write a scripted chess-tutorial.
  95
  96 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
  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 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 106                           Analysis features
 107
 108 - Add slots to each position for keeping track of positional
 109   evaluation (these values can be automatically determined when
 110   parsing ICS12)
 111
 112 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 113   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 114   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 115   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 116   kibitzing feature).
 117
 118 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 119   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 120   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 121   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 122   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 123   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 124   routine.
 125
 126 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 127
 128 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 129   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 130   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 131   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 135                            Other variations
 136
 137 - Need a way to play bughouse/crazyhouse games.
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 141                             Other features
 142
 143 - Keeping a player database in BBDB
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 145 - Managing a tournament, setting up pairings, calculating ratings