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
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  22
  23 - Read-only mode needs to be a bit more vigorous.  There's nothing
  24   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  25
  26 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  27   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  28   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  29   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  30   kibitzing feature).
  31
  32 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  33
  34 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  35   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  36
  37 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  38   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  39   this type in Gnus.
  40
  41 - Clean/rewrite ics.el
  42
  43 - Add support for ICS observing
  44
  45 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  46   playing, etc.
  47
  48 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  49
  50 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  51   chess.el is
  52
  53 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  54
  55 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  56   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  57   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  58
  59 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  60   the new generic functions.
  61
  62 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  63
  64 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  65   points; this will require database interaction support
  66
  67 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  68
  69 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  70   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  71   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  72   handle cursor-type with that display.
  73
  74 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  75
  76 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  77   tells the engine not to resign.
  78
  79 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
  80   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
  81
  82 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  83
  84 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
  85   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
  86   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
  87   original board from the copied board.
  88
  89 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  90
  91 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
  92   piece is selected.
  93
  94 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  95   a game object
  96
  97 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
  98
  99 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 100
 101 - Allow dragging of pieces
 102
 103 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 104
 105 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 106
 107 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 108
 109 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 110
 111 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 112
 113 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 114   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 115   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 116   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 117   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 118   implement.
 119
 120 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 121   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 122   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 123   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 124
 125 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 126   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 127   might lead to an inferior position.
 128
 129 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 130   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 131   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 132   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 133   you for a player, not an opponent.
 134
 135 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 136   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 137   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 138   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 139   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 140   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 141   routine.
 142
 143 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 144   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 145   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 146   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 147   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 148
 149 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 150
 151                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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