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

   1 - Feature work remaining:
   2
   3   annotations
   4   chatting
   5   clocks
   6   analysis/highlight tools
   7   bughouse/crazyhouse
   8
   9 - undoing a single move (my move) and moving again, causes
  10   chess-algebraic to get a little screwed up
  11
  12 - the game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  13
  14 - detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  15
  16 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  17   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  18
  19 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying
  20   it's not our turn to move
  21
  22 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  23   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  24   after every move
  25
  26 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  27   game into an unplayable state right now
  28
  29 - Break my dependency on cl
  30
  31 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  32
  33 - Read-only mode needs to be a bit more vigorous.  There's nothing
  34   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  35
  36 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  37   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  38   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  39   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  40   kibitzing feature).
  41
  42 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  43
  44 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  45   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  46
  47 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  48   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  49   this type in Gnus.
  50
  51 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  52
  53 - Add support for ICS observing
  54
  55 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  56   playing, etc.
  57
  58 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  59   chess.el is
  60
  61 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  62
  63 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  64   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  65   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  66
  67 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  68   the new generic functions.
  69
  70 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  71
  72 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  73   points; this will require database interaction support
  74
  75 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  76
  77 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  78   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  79   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  80   handle cursor-type with that display.
  81
  82 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  83
  84 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  85   tells the engine not to resign.
  86
  87 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  88   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  89
  90 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  91
  92 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  93   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  94   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  95   original board from the copied board.
  96
  97 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  98
  99 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 100   a game object
 101
 102 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 103
 104 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 105
 106 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 107
 108 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 109
 110 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 111
 112 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 113
 114 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 115
 116 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 117   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 118   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 119   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 120   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 121   implement.
 122
 123 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 124   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 125   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 126   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 127
 128 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 129   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 130   might lead to an inferior position.
 131
 132 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 133   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 134   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 135   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 136   you for a player, not an opponent.
 137
 138 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 139   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 140   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 141   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 142   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 143   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 144   routine.
 145
 146 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 147   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 148   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 149   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 150   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 151
 152 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 153
 154                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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