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

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