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 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  45   chess games back and forth.
  46
  47 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  48
  49 - Add support for ICS observing
  50
  51 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  52   playing, etc.
  53
  54 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  55   chess.el is
  56
  57 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  58
  59 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  60   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  61   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  62
  63 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  64   the new generic functions.
  65
  66 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  67
  68 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  69   points; this will require database interaction support
  70
  71 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  72
  73 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  74   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  75   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  76   handle cursor-type with that display.
  77
  78 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  79
  80 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  81   tells the engine not to resign.
  82
  83 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  84   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  85
  86 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  87
  88 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  89   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  90   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  91   original board from the copied board.
  92
  93 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  94
  95 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  96   a game object
  97
  98 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  99
 100 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 101
 102 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 103
 104 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 105
 106 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 107
 108 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 109
 110 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 111
 112 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 113   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 114   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 115   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 116   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 117   implement.
 118
 119 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 120   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 121   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 122   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 123
 124 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 125   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 126   might lead to an inferior position.
 127
 128 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 129   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 130   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 131   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 132   you for a player, not an opponent.
 133
 134 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 135   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 136   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 137   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 138   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 139   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 140   routine.
 141
 142 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 143   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 144   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 145   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 146   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 147
 148 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 149
 150                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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