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