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 - Add a `force' event for forcing an engine to move, and a command
   8   from chess-display to send this event
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  10 - If you are playing a puzzle game, and the engine is thinking, and
  11   you hit space to move to the next puzzle, then when the last move is
  12   finally received from the engine it causes an error.
  13
  14 - Clean up chess.el, and let people override the chess-default-* lists
  15
  16 - Write chess-descriptive.el, and have the code in general use
  17   chess-ply-to-string and chess-string-to-ply, so that users can use
  18   descriptive notationas an alternative to algebraic.
  19
  20 - Write chess-html.el, for outputting a game to HTML
  21
  22 - Write chess-latex.el, for outputting a game to LaTeX
  23
  24 - Use TrueType or other chess fonts for displaying positions; this
  25   might be the best way of displaying positions on Windows
  26
  27 - Change chess-announce/sound so that it reads from the text rendition
  28   of the move; this way it will work with either descriptive or
  29   algebraic notation.  Also, chess-announce and chess-sound can be
  30   collapsed into one module, with different "styles" of announcing.
  31
  32 - Write chess-epd.el, which is based on chess-fen, and is also a
  33   database module for accessing positions within an EPD file
  34
  35 - Make ( create variations in a display, and keys to move into and out
  36   of them.  At the moment, variations are supported programmatically,
  37   but not in the UI.
  38
  39 - Make a display read-only mode, which allows people to view/browse
  40   but not alter a game.  This could be used for remoting displays in
  41   order that people on other X servers might observe a game.
  42
  43 - Implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule in chess-ply
  44
  45 - Port the code to XEmacs
  46
  47 - Find a way to display pieces on Windows platforms, or at least
  48   document how to build XPM support into Emacs for Windows
  49
  50 - Add a way to include the chess-ucb module in the list of default
  51   modules created via M-x chess.  Right now there is no facility for
  52   having two engines associated with a single game (and chess-link
  53   is not what we want in this case).
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  57                               ICS Client
  58
  59 - Add a completion function against logged in users
  60
  61 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  65                             Chess by Mail
  66
  67 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  68   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  69   after every move; use BBDB if available
  70
  71 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  72   chess games back and forth.
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  76                          Database Interaction
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  78 - Enable UI commands in chess-display to interact with databases.  As
  79   of 2.0, this support is programmatic only.
  80
  81 - Follow what `edit-env' does, in order to make chess-query.el.
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  85                           Training/Tutorials
  86
  87 - Write a scripted chess-tutorial.
  88
  89 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
  90
  91 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
  92   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
  93   might lead to an inferior position.
  94
  95 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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  99                           Analysis features
 100
 101 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 102   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 103   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 104   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 105   kibitzing feature).
 106
 107 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 108   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 109   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 110   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 111   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 112   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 113   routine.
 114
 115 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 116
 117 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 118   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 119   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 120   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 124                            Other variations
 125
 126 - Need a way to play bughouse/crazyhouse games.
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 130                             Other features
 131
 132 - Keeping a player database in BBDB
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 134 - Managing a tournament, setting up pairings, calculating ratings