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

   1 These are features scheduled for future 2.x releases.
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   5                            General Features
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   7 - Use TrueType or other chess fonts for displaying positions; this
   8   might be the best way of displaying positions on Windows
   9
  10 - Enable the chat module, and base its interface on what TNT does
  11
  12 - Merge chess-announce and chess-sound, and use style modules on top
  13   of the underlying module
  14
  15 - Create a generic chess-output interface, for outputting games to a
  16   particular format (PGN, HTML, LaTeX, etc)
  17
  18 - Display in the modeline which game in the database we're in, and
  19   what the positional evaluation is
  20
  21 - Add a `force' event for forcing an engine to move, and a command
  22   from chess-display to send this event
  23
  24 - If you are playing a puzzle game, and the engine is thinking, and
  25   you hit space to move to the next puzzle, then when the last move is
  26   finally received from the engine it causes an error.
  27
  28 - Clean up chess.el, and let people override the chess-default-* lists
  29
  30 - Write chess-descriptive.el, and have the code in general use
  31   chess-ply-to-string and chess-string-to-ply, so that users can use
  32   descriptive notationas an alternative to algebraic.
  33   (NOTE: this might proof problematic since descriptive move notation
  34    is ambigious if we don't have the full game information, since
  35    we need to destinguish between QR KR QN and KN.  So chess-descriptive-to-ply
  36    would need to use a game object as reference, rather than just a position.)
  37
  38 - Change chess-announce/sound so that it reads from the text rendition
  39   of the move; this way it will work with either descriptive or
  40   algebraic notation.  Also, chess-announce and chess-sound can be
  41   collapsed into one module, with different "styles" of announcing.
  42
  43 - Write chess-epd.el, which is based on chess-fen, and is also a
  44   database module for accessing positions within an EPD file
  45   (This has mostly already been done, however, chess-epd still needs to be
  46    converted to a database module.)
  47
  48 - Make ( create variations in a display, and keys to move into and out
  49   of them.  At the moment, variations are supported programmatically,
  50   but not in the UI.
  51
  52 - Make a display read-only mode, which allows people to view/browse
  53   but not alter a game.  This could be used for remoting displays in
  54   order that people on other X servers might observe a game.
  55
  56 - Implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule in chess-ply
  57
  58 - Port the code to XEmacs
  59
  60 - Find a way to display pieces on Windows platforms, or at least
  61   document how to build XPM support into Emacs for Windows
  62
  63 - Add a way to include the chess-ucb module in the list of default
  64   modules created via M-x chess.  Right now there is no facility for
  65   having two engines associated with a single game (and chess-link
  66   is not what we want in this case).
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  70                               ICS Client
  71
  72 - Add a completion function against logged in users
  73
  74 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  78                                PGN Mode
  79
  80 Maybe pgn-mode could just allow normal editing, and bind some keys
  81 to do special things. e.g., the mouse binding could work as normal,
  82 SPC could update the display. So if you do
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  84 1 e4 SPC
  85 you get the move displayed. Some binding could do redisplay anyway, e.g. C-l?
  86 Then, one could enter variations or such simply with ( or { and
  87 the display would update automatically.
  88 e.g., you do
  89 ( 15.e5 SPC Nf3 SPC )
  90 and you'd get three display updates, on e5 SPC, you get that
  91 ply, then the second one, and on ) you get the position before the
  92 variation. Move point into the variation again, and hit C-l and you
  93 get the pos where point is on.
  94
  95 There should be a forward-ply and backward-ply, maybe something like
  96 M-f / M-b, and C-u M-f for two plies forward?
  97
  98 Very nice would be a pcomplete-based completion fascility, so
  99 simply hit TAB at any point, and you get the right completion.
 100 Example:
 101
 102 [Event ...]
 103
 104 TAB 1.TAB ...
 105
 106 On first tab, the move number is inserted. On second, you get
 107 all possible moves in that position.
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 111                             Chess by Mail
 112
 113 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
 114   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
 115   after every move; use BBDB if available
 116
 117 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 118   chess games back and forth.
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 121
 122                          Database Interaction
 123
 124 - Enable UI commands in chess-display to interact with databases.  As
 125   of 2.0, this support is programmatic only.
 126
 127 - Follow what `edit-env' does, in order to make chess-query.el.
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 131                           Training/Tutorials
 132
 133 - Write a scripted chess-tutorial.
 134
 135 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 136
 137 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 138   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 139   might lead to an inferior position.
 140
 141 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 145                           Analysis features
 146
 147 - Add slots to each position for keeping track of positional
 148   evaluation (these values can be automatically determined when
 149   parsing ICS12)
 150
 151 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 152   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 153   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 154   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 155   kibitzing feature).
 156
 157 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 158   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 159   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 160   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 161   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 162   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 163   routine.
 164
 165 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 166
 167 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 168   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 169   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 170   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 174                            Other variations
 175
 176 - Need a way to play bughouse/crazyhouse games.
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 180                             Other features
 181
 182 - Keeping a player database in BBDB
 183
 184 - Managing a tournament, setting up pairings, calculating ratings