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