TODO.md

TODO

• Add variation compression and jump into variation when making a move
• Add multiple games support
• Add i18n
  • Maybe remove all multi-line hints from strings, as they aren't saved into PO files correctly
  • Set DefaultCaption = True for every TButtonPanel (for i18n).
• Add an option to declare draw by arbitrary number of moves (50, 100, 128, 256)
  • Or, upgrade to the modern rules: fivefold repetition + 75 move rule
• Process info string responses from the engine
• Use UCI debug option
• Do not start and kill engines so much when starting and changing games
  • Maybe reuse the engines between different games
  • Keep engine options when re-creating a game
• Improve board piece rendering (especially on Win32 and Qt widgetsets)
• Allow to configure timeouts for engines
• Reduce needless refreshes in the start of the game for board and notation
• Optimize undo & redo
  • Make VisualChessNotation render faster in this case
  • Do not save the whole lists, save just the difference
• Fix the bug that undo continues after releasing the key, when it was held for a large amount of time
• Allow to pass command-line options for engines
• Add Winboard/XBoard engines support
• Fix diacritics and strange unicode rendering issues in the notation
  • Rewrite calculation of on-screen character length
  • Maybe do not use just one char to determine it, but use two or more char
  • Another option is to switch to a native richtext view and forget about these issues
• Remove deprecated parts
  • Remove ScaleDPI
  • Remove PseudoDocking and replace with AnchorDocking
• Port the changes made in BattleField back to Chess256

Potentally obsolete or unclear issues

• Improve MoveParsing to better handle lower case and upper case (make it much more flexible)
• Remove the Debug Console
  • It's hidden by default now, should we finally remove it?