Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:02:22 11/26/98
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I would like to see a feature for chess trees like the following:
You have a big board and several potential moves which have been played before
or are indicated by computer evaluation. It would be nice to indicate
preferences (best pv, best winning percent, etc) by color coding the traces or
changing line style {dashed, dotted, solid, dot-dash, etc.}. Also, the top five
to ten choices (your preference) could be indicated with tiny little boards like
on the CDB sign-on screen. Alternatively, you could set it to show the top 5
moves in sequence using the little boards by win percent or by best eval.
A better annotation feature would be very, very good.
It would be nice if standard chess games had a "solve" mode like mate finders so
that they could be employed for that purpose.
It would be nice to have a problem creation feature.
It would be nice to have a retro chess feature.
Some people might like fairy chess stuff [not me though :-p bleah.]
It would be nice to have real relational queries of the moves database.
It would be nice to have the endgame tablebase data in database format for
relational queries.
It would be nice to have all the features of winboard in commercial products,
which pale in comparison. Automatic FICS & ICC links.
A tournament manager program would be very, very good.
It would be nice to have an autoscore of EPD analysis like crafty.
ADHERE TO STANDARDS : PGN, EPD, FEN -- read them all, write them all, and *do it
correctly* [FCOL]
Read and write other database formats (Rebel formats, Chessbase, etc -- the more
the merrier)
Have a SQL repository with a PUBLISHED schema for all database needs so that
other tool vendors can add data pumps.
Crazy clocks -- One player gets 10 minutes per move, the other player gets 10
seconds or whatever.
Time controls that go up to one month per move
Old-time chess rules reinstated on demand (odds chess, etc.).
Start a game from any given position.
Implement Fischer Random Chess (well others may like it). [not me though :-p
bleah.]
That should be a good start. I hope you tool vendors have them all complete for
me in a month or two. ;-)
I have lots more ideas, but no sense spewing them out until you guys get on the
stick and finish these off.
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