code.delx.au - gnu-emacs-elpa/blob - TODO

   1 - Feature work remaining:
   2
   3   annotations
   4   chatting
   5   clocks
   6   analysis/highlight tools
   7   bughouse/crazyhouse
   8   display/database tie-in
   9
  10 - undoing a single move (my move) and moving again, causes
  11   chess-algebraic to get a little screwed up
  12
  13 - the game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  14
  15 - detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  16
  17 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  18   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  19
  20 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying
  21   it's not our turn to move
  22
  23 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  24   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  25   after every move
  26
  27 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  28   game into an unplayable state right now
  29
  30 - Break my dependency on cl
  31
  32 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  33
  34 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  35   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  36
  37 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry
  38
  39 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  40
  41 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  42   chess games back and forth.
  43
  44 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  45
  46 - Add support for ICS observing
  47
  48 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  49   playing, etc.
  50
  51 - Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
  52   chess.el is
  53
  54 - Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
  55
  56 - Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
  57   can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
  58   needing to know the type of OBJECT.
  59
  60 - Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
  61   the new generic functions.
  62
  63 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  64
  65 - Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
  66   points; this will require database interaction support
  67
  68 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  69
  70 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  71   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  72   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  73   handle cursor-type with that display.
  74
  75 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  76
  77 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  78   tells the engine not to resign.
  79
  80 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  81
  82 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  83
  84 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  85   a game object
  86
  87 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  88
  89 - Port image display code to XEmacs
  90
  91                           Training features
  92
  93 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
  94
  95 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
  96   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
  97   might lead to an inferior position.
  98
  99 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
 100
 101                           Analysis features
 102
 103 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 104   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 105   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 106   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 107   kibitzing feature).
 108
 109 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 110   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 111   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 112   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 113   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 114   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 115   routine.
 116
 117 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 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                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 125
 126   profile
 127   mem profile
 128   docstring
 129   texi
 130   elint
 131   checkdoc