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)
   9   full ICS interaction
  10
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  12
  13 - Have chess-algebraic-to-ply use chess-ply-create, since I can't
  14   trust :check and :checkmate anyway.  Or, break chess-ply-create into
  15   multiple functions that get reused by chess-algebraic.
  16
  17 - Make sure that when chess-algebraic-to-ply is used, and then
  18   chess-pos-move is used, that I don't redo all the checks.  There
  19   should be a way of "blessing" a ply.
  20
  21 - Make sure chess-pos-move does full validation.
  22
  23 - In M-x chess, if chess-images is being used, ensure that
  24   chess-images-directory is valid, otherwise fall back on chess-ics1.
  25
  26 - Only use "chess-engine-game" in chess-engine.el.  All other modules
  27   should call "(chess-engine-game nil)".
  28
  29 - In chess-fen-to-pos, syntax check incoming FEN strings
  30
  31 - Add the capacity to abort/resign when there is no engine
  32
  33 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  34
  35 - Make use of the my-color data in chess-game.el to ensure that I only
  36   do what I should be doing
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  39
  40 - Clean/rewrite ics.el
  41
  42 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  43   playing, etc.
  44
  45 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  46
  47 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  48   chess.el is
  49
  50 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  51
  52 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  53   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  54   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  55
  56 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  57   the new generic functions.
  58
  59 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  60
  61 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  62   points; this will require database interaction support
  63
  64 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  65
  66 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  67   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  68   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  69   handle cursor-type with that display.
  70
  71 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  72
  73 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  74   tells the engine not to resign.
  75
  76 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  77   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  78
  79 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  80
  81 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  82   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  83   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  84   original board from the copied board.
  85
  86 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  87
  88 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  89   piece is selected.
  90
  91 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  92   a game object
  93
  94 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  95
  96 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  97
  98 - Allow dragging of pieces
  99
 100 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 101
 102 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 103
 104 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 105
 106 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 107
 108 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 109
 110 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 111   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 112   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 113   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 114   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 115   implement.
 116
 117 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 118   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 119   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 120   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 121
 122 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 123   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 124   might lead to an inferior position.
 125
 126 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 127   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 128   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 129   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 130   you for a player, not an opponent.
 131
 132 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 133   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 134   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 135   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 136   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 137   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 138   routine.
 139
 140 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 141   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 142   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 143   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 144   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 145
 146                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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