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- Feature work remaining:
annotations
chatting
clocks
analysis/highlight tools
bughouse/crazyhouse
display/database tie-in
- undoing a single move (my move) and moving again, causes
chess-algebraic to get a little screwed up
- the game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
- detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
- in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
- SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying
it's not our turn to move
- Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
after every move
- There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
game into an unplayable state right now
- Break my dependency on cl
- Use more asserts throughout the code
- Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous. There's nothing
preventing the user from using M-x commands.
- Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry
- Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
- Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
chess games back and forth.
- Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
- Add support for ICS observing
- Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
playing, etc.
- Turn on memory gc collection messages, and see how much of a pig
chess.el is
- Make as much of chess-game/ply/pos, etc., defsubst as possible.
- Create a series of generic functions and predicates, so that users
can say (chess-position OBJECT) or (chess-move OBJECT), without
needing to know the type of OBJECT.
- Change chess-display-set-... to chess-display-set, and make it use
the new generic functions.
- Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
- Support auto-saving of games to PGN, and saving them at appropriate
points; this will require database interaction support
- Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
- In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
pieces the square can be set to. Cursor movement is really not the
best for chess-images. I still need to figure out how best to
handle cursor-type with that display.
- Still need to test many areas: position editing
- Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
tells the engine not to resign.
- Remote displays are horribly insecure.
- Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
- Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
a game object
- Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
- Port image display code to XEmacs
Training features
- Allow the opponent to give hints.
- 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.
- Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
Analysis features
- Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
position. Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
and displaying the result in the modeline. (Also, look at crafty's
kibitzing feature).
- 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.
- Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
- 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).
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