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)
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  11
  12 - detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  13
  14 - Why doesn't S-b produce [B] in the keyboard shortcutting?
  15
  16 - chess-sound announcements are broken
  17
  18 - the game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  19
  20 - when announcing abiguous pieces, name the rank/file ("e pawn")
  21
  22 - there needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  23   game into an unplayable state right now
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  26
  27 - Read-only mode needs to be a bit more vigorous.  There's nothing
  28   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  29
  30 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  31   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  32   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  33   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  34   kibitzing feature).
  35
  36 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  37
  38 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  39   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  40
  41 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  42   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  43   this type in Gnus.
  44
  45 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  46
  47 - Add support for ICS observing
  48
  49 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  50   playing, etc.
  51
  52 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  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 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  96   piece is selected.
  97
  98 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  99   a game object
 100
 101 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 102
 103 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 104
 105 - Allow dragging of pieces
 106
 107 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 108
 109 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 110
 111 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 112
 113 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 114
 115 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 116
 117 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 118   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 119   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 120   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 121   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 122   implement.
 123
 124 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 125   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 126   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 127   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 128
 129 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 130   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 131   might lead to an inferior position.
 132
 133 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 134   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 135   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 136   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 137   you for a player, not an opponent.
 138
 139 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 140   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 141   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 142   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 143   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 144   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 145   routine.
 146
 147 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 148   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 149   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 150   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 151   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 152
 153 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 154
 155                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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