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)
   9   full ICS interaction
  10
  11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  12
  13 - Have chess-algebraic-to-ply use chess-ply-create, since I can't
  14   trust :check and :checkmate anyway.  Or, break chess-ply-create into
  15   multiple functions that get reused by chess-algebraic.
  16
  17 - Make sure that when chess-algebraic-to-ply is used, and then
  18   chess-pos-move is used, that I don't redo all the checks.  There
  19   should be a way of "blessing" a ply.
  20
  21 - Make sure chess-pos-move does full validation.
  22
  23 - Make sure that chess-search-position can find a rook move due to
  24   castling.  For example, O-O includes Rhf1.  So,
  25   (chess-search-position ... "f1" ?R) should return the h1 rook, if it
  26   could reach that square legally by castling.
  27
  28 - There is an ambiguity in keyboard shortcutting between Bxc6 and bxc6
  29
  30 - In chess-fen-to-pos, syntax check incoming FEN strings
  31
  32 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  33
  34 - Make use of the my-color and active data in chess-game.el to ensure
  35   that I only do what I should be doing
  36
  37 - Add `chess-display-read-only', to indicate that no changes can be
  38   made to a displayed chess board.  This would be good for cloned
  39   displays, and when observing a bot (or two engines head-to-head).
  40
  41 - Remove `chess-illegal', and just use plain error.
  42
  43 - Allow S in the display to send arbitrary text to the end
  44
  45 - Make chess-display-popup-in-... first class citizens
  46
  47 - Have chess-display-popup-in-frame autosize based on the content (if
  48   possible)
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  51
  52 - Read-only mode needs to be a bit more vigorous.  There's nothing
  53   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  54
  55 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
  56   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
  57   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
  58   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
  59   kibitzing feature).
  60
  61 - Complete chess-pgn-mode
  62
  63 - Write a chess-database.el interface, and then add chess-lisp.el,
  64   chess-file.el (PGN games in a flat file) and chess-scid.el
  65
  66 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  67   chess games back and forth.  Add code for special MIME handling of
  68   this type in Gnus.
  69
  70 - Clean/rewrite ics.el
  71
  72 - Add support for ICS observing
  73
  74 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  75   playing, etc.
  76
  77 - Add CTCP (optional) support to chess-irc.el
  78
  79 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  80   chess.el is
  81
  82 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  83
  84 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  85   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  86   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  87
  88 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  89   the new generic functions.
  90
  91 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  92
  93 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  94   points; this will require database interaction support
  95
  96 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  97
  98 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  99   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 100   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 101   handle cursor-type with that display.
 102
 103 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
 104
 105 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 106   tells the engine not to resign.
 107
 108 - Add a display command for writing out the currently displayed game
 109   to a file.  It will use PGN for games, and FEN for positions.
 110
 111 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
 112
 113 - When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves),
 114   doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display
 115   hook.  Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the
 116   original board from the copied board.
 117
 118 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
 119
 120 - Have a display option that shows legal target squares whenever a
 121   piece is selected.
 122
 123 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 124   a game object
 125
 126 - Add a module for chatting between opponents
 127
 128 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 129
 130 - Allow dragging of pieces
 131
 132 - Need to check for chess engine resignations
 133
 134 - Need a chess-clock.el module, especially for playing on ICS
 135
 136 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 137
 138 - Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL.
 139
 140 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 141
 142 - Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then
 143   enter a move for whichever color is next to play.  This would make
 144   it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc.  The mere command
 145   "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and
 146   make my move as Nf3.  It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to
 147   implement.
 148
 149 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 150   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 151   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 152   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 153
 154 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 155   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 156   might lead to an inferior position.
 157
 158 - Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that
 159   encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his
 160   opponent type, etc.  This would maintain a log of games against that
 161   player, their current chess rating, etc.  Then, M-x chess would ask
 162   you for a player, not an opponent.
 163
 164 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 165   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 166   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 167   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 168   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 169   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 170   routine.
 171
 172 - If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to
 173   designate a target square, display the resulting board without
 174   making a move.  This requires copying chessboard-current-board to
 175   chessboard-draft-board.  If the user right-clicks without selecting
 176   a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw.
 177
 178 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 179
 180                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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