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 - Make use of the my-color data in chess-game.el to ensure that I only
  11   do what I should be doing
  12
  13 - After somebody sends me "name", I need a responding event to tell
  14   them my name
  15
  16 - Allow the user to request a move retraction (ala takeback)
  17
  18 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  19   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  20   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  21   handle cursor-type with that display.
  22
  23 - There is presently no way to start a new game!
  24
  25 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  26
  27 - Resize ascii windows after popup, so that the whole board is
  28   minimally visible
  29
  30 - Need a way to request a draw
  31
  32 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  33   tells the engine not to resign.
  34
  35 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  36   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  37
  38 - Auto-raise the chess-images frame, if it's being displayed as a
  39   separate frame.
  40
  41 - Create a to-text rendering interface for all chess game objects.
  42   So, chess-game-to-string would use PGN, etc.
  43
  44 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  45
  46 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  47   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  48   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  49   original board from the copied board.
  50
  51 - Make the mode-line much more informative
  52
  53 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  54
  55 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  56   piece is selected.
  57
  58 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  59   a game object
  60
  61 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  62
  63 - M-w on a display should kill appropriately (i.e., kill to PGN for a
  64   game, to FEN for a position, etc).  C-y should likewise call the
  65   appropriate chess-display-set-... function based on the clipboard's
  66   contents.  Which might just be a plain algebraic string too!
  67
  68 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  69
  70 - Allow dragging of pieces
  71
  72 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
  73
  74 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
  75
  76 - Port image display code to XEmacs
  77
  78 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
  79
  80 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
  81
  82 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
  83   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
  84   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
  85   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
  86   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
  87   implement.
  88
  89 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
  90   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
  91   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
  92   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
  93
  94 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
  95   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
  96   might lead to an inferior position.
  97
  98 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
  99   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 100   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 101   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 102   you for a player, not an opponent.
 103
 104 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 105   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 106   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 107   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 108   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 109   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 110   routine.
 111
 112 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 113   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 114   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 115   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 116   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.