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
  34 - Change chess-announce/sound so that it reads from the text rendition
  35   of the move; this way it will work with either descriptive or
  36   algebraic notation.  Also, chess-announce and chess-sound can be
  37   collapsed into one module, with different "styles" of announcing.
  38
  39 - Write chess-epd.el, which is based on chess-fen, and is also a
  40   database module for accessing positions within an EPD file
  41
  42 - Make ( create variations in a display, and keys to move into and out
  43   of them.  At the moment, variations are supported programmatically,
  44   but not in the UI.
  45
  46 - Make a display read-only mode, which allows people to view/browse
  47   but not alter a game.  This could be used for remoting displays in
  48   order that people on other X servers might observe a game.
  49
  50 - Implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule in chess-ply
  51
  52 - Port the code to XEmacs
  53
  54 - Find a way to display pieces on Windows platforms, or at least
  55   document how to build XPM support into Emacs for Windows
  56
  57 - Add a way to include the chess-ucb module in the list of default
  58   modules created via M-x chess.  Right now there is no facility for
  59   having two engines associated with a single game (and chess-link
  60   is not what we want in this case).
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  64                               ICS Client
  65
  66 - Add a completion function against logged in users
  67
  68 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  72                                PGN Mode
  73
  74 Maybe pgn-mode could just allow normal editing, and bind some keys
  75 to do special things. e.g., the mouse binding could work as normal,
  76 SPC could update the display. So if you do
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  78 1 e4 SPC
  79 you get the move displayed. Some binding could do redisplay anyway, e.g. C-l?
  80 Then, one could enter variations or such simply with ( or { and
  81 the display would update automatically.
  82 e.g., you do
  83 ( 15.e5 SPC Nf3 SPC )
  84 and you'd get three display updates, on e5 SPC, you get that
  85 ply, then the second one, and on ) you get the position before the
  86 variation. Move point into the variation again, and hit C-l and you
  87 get the pos where point is on.
  88
  89 There should be a forward-ply and backward-ply, maybe something like
  90 M-f / M-b, and C-u M-f for two plies forward?
  91
  92 Very nice would be a pcomplete-based completion fascility, so
  93 simply hit TAB at any point, and you get the right completion.
  94 Example:
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  96 [Event ...]
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  98 TAB 1.TAB ...
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 100 On first tab, the move number is inserted. On second, you get
 101 all possible moves in that position.
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 105                             Chess by Mail
 106
 107 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
 108   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
 109   after every move; use BBDB if available
 110
 111 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 112   chess games back and forth.
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 116                          Database Interaction
 117
 118 - Enable UI commands in chess-display to interact with databases.  As
 119   of 2.0, this support is programmatic only.
 120
 121 - Follow what `edit-env' does, in order to make chess-query.el.
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 125                           Training/Tutorials
 126
 127 - Write a scripted chess-tutorial.
 128
 129 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 130
 131 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 132   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 133   might lead to an inferior position.
 134
 135 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 139                           Analysis features
 140
 141 - Add slots to each position for keeping track of positional
 142   evaluation (these values can be automatically determined when
 143   parsing ICS12)
 144
 145 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 146   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 147   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 148   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 149   kibitzing feature).
 150
 151 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 152   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 153   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 154   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 155   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 156   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 157   routine.
 158
 159 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 160
 161 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 162   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 163   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 164   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 168                            Other variations
 169
 170 - Need a way to play bughouse/crazyhouse games.
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 174                             Other features
 175
 176 - Keeping a player database in BBDB
 177
 178 - Managing a tournament, setting up pairings, calculating ratings