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@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +* 2.0 + +Write chess-game-to-pgn and chess-pgn-to-game. + +Get keyboard shortcuts working, right now "nf, nf", causes an error. + +* Other + +- Clipboard copy and paste should be global, and occur in this module + +- Port image display code to XEmacs + +- Keep a history of boards, and the moves corresponding with them, so + that the move history can be stepped through forward and back. + +- Allow the user to retract a move when playing against crafty. + +- Tie-in to ics.el, by adding "Internet opponent" to the opponents + list. + +- The ability to read and playback existing PGN files. + +- A way to set the time control, and display its status. + +- After a castle, the rook might place the opponent's king in check. + This is not considered at the moment. + +- After piece promotion, change the piece accordingly and look for + check posibilities (it's done with the pawn at the moment, which is + useless). + +- Handle en passant. + +- Support chess by mail, with direct tie-ins to Gnus/RMAIL. + +- Allow the opponent to give hints. + +- Choose the default image set based on the screen size. + +- Find some prettier image sets. + +- If the chess computer croaks, handle it gracefully. + +- A better way to visually show who's turn it is now? + +- The source have some strings with non-ascii content. + +- In a PGN file, offer the commands: chess-continue, chess-replay, + chess-show-position (which works for whichever sequence the cursor + is in). + +- For modified boards, add a command key to say that it's really black + to play, not white (or vice versa). + +- Multiple game buffer selection is a bit screwy. M-1 M-x chess will + not select the first buffer, for example. Perhaps named games would + be better? + +- Add a command that will load a saved game, continue it, and then + enter a move for whichever color is next to play. This would make + it trivial to add chess drivers to AIM, IRC, etc. The mere command + "!chess johnw37 Nf3" would mean: load the chess game johnw37, and + make my move as Nf3. It would also make chess by e-mail a snap to + implement. + +- Modify etalk's chess.el to use this chess.el as its library. + +- Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended, + how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase + defense/attack/both, etc. Basically, everything that can be known + about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides). + +- Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn + the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that + might lead to an inferior position. + +- Create chess-player.el, which creates persistent objects that + encapsulate information about any player: where he is, his name, his + opponent type, etc. This would maintain a log of games against that + player, their current chess rating, etc. Then, M-x chess would ask + you for a player, not an opponent. + +- When editing the board in display mode (or doing speculative moves), + doing them on a copy of the board with no hook except the display + hook. Then, if you like the result, it call be a `set' on the + original board from the copied board. + +- If moving your opponent's piece is bad, why let you select it in the + first place? Also, don't let them select a blank square. + +- Allow a networked mode that uses the X display protocol to show the + same board on two machines. That way, the guest machine wouldn't + even need to be running Emacs! + +- Once this is in place, one could play games without a log by just + sending the board config and move, back and forth. + +- Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on + whether they are reachable by either side. Green if reachable by + you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both. With a prefix + argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them. This + is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off. It also + requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting + routine. + +- If a person selects a piece with the mouse, then uses right-click to + designate a target square, display the resulting board without + making a move. This requires copying chessboard-current-board to + chessboard-draft-board. If the user right-clicks without selecting + a piece, it will reset to chessboard-current-board and redraw. + +- Using display-pixel-width, and the images known to be available, + find the largest piece size that will fit. + +- Break out the display code into its own set of modules, then + parameterize the call into them so that alter size and change + directory uses them. Right now those two functions are hard-coded + for image displays. |