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There should be a way, to get an overview/statstic showing the e.g.
gnuchess score during the game.

The windows vista card game, uses an animation to spread the cards. Could
this be nice to have in pychess to?

It might be cool to have a theme system, with different pieces.

Any chance of removing the dependency on gconf? You could just use the
ConfigParser module instead. That would make pychess more attractive to
non-GNOME users. 

Thanks.

Before we can ship version 0.2, it must be able to start a new game (twice)

If Pychess crashes, or is killed, the engines continue to run.
For threading.Thread's this could be prevented by having the subthreads
being daemonthreads, that only can exist when the mainthread is running. I
just don't see any way to do the same for Popen's?

Probably because of threads..
Could sdl be the answer to this?

Should only be able to select pieces humen control

View option, automaticly to rotate the board, so the active player is face
down.

It would be cool to have a better name than pychess. How about
"Fianchetto"? (the only chess term I could find that actually sounds quite
good and doesn't seem to be taken yet, but any other name would be nice as
well)

Future Avahi support would make PyChess a must for playing chess in a LAN.
Something like show other available Human players, when clicking in 'New
Game', and may be the possibility to watch other player's game.

Get some danm svnserver running. Working alone sucks.

Could be made by saving a timestamp every one second..
Could also be made by updating very often, but not always calling repaint.
Should probably be both.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start a game  
2. Play a few moves ...
3. Start a new game

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
L Found 2 moves in 0.351 seconds
L Found 20 moves in 0.126 seconds
Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method Game._run of <Game
object (Game+Game) at 0xb6fb4b1c>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/thijs/cvs/pychess/Game.py", line 71, in _run
    if not self.history.add(move,True):
  File "/home/thijs/cvs/pychess/Utils/History.py", line 117, in add
    if p.sign == "k":
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'sign'
L Found 20 moves in 0.471 seconds
*E* CrR: Illegal move: e2e4
D Ora(Gn)R: 6. ... d1b3
D Ora(Gn)R: My move is: d1b3
D Ora(Gn)W: show score
D Ora(Gn)W: flush
D Ora(Gn)W: manual
D Ora(Gn) waiting for: 'Phase'
D Ora(Gn)R: Illegal move: flush
D Ora(Gn)R: White:  Mat:3600/4400  P:40  N:85  B:90  R:37  Q:59  K:-14 
Dev:-56  h:0 x:0
D Ora(Gn)R: Black:  Mat:3600/4400  P:44  N:48  B:80  R:27  Q:59  K:-44 
Dev:-24  h:0 x:0
D Ora(Gn)R: Phase: 1    score = -51
D Ora(Gn)W: undo
D Ora(Gn)W: undo

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Press anywhere on the window (except the togglecombobox)
2. Drag unto the togglecombobox
3. Release the mousebutton
4. Press the tooglecombobox, and drag unto some other widget again
5. release the mousebutton

What do you see instead?

Next time you hover the tooglecombobox it is pressed :S

Indeed

Use some kind of acceleration for scaling svg and doing animations.

Wont kill opponents when moving a long way down.

We could put a little analog clock, next to the digital time. Would look
nice :)

It would be nice to see pychess translated to other languages. Adding it to
Rosetta (https://launchpad.net/rosetta) would probably be an easy way to
achieve this (I would be willing to translate it to dutch).

Possibility to use other books. Should both target the UI, and the engines.

Also a function to create a book out of a list of pgns, might be cool.

Do the crafty, and make sure no engines not installed shows up.

I'm looking at the code and am a little confused about some variable names.
In the new dialog all combobox's are names combobox*, I changed some names
to a more logic name, No funcionality is lost/added.

The CairoBoard class will need to be splitted into two classes:
One extending gtk.DrawingArea, and one extending gtk.EventBox.
The main board should hold both (first one in the second), but other where,
e.g. the analyze sidepanel, might only need the first one.

We should have a help item.
Other than simple uihelp, it should also contain the rules and a small
toturial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess has a nice table of the most simple
answer to "what is chess"

Gain support in the clock

I checked out the source and tried it. Works after the following changes:

o Remove 'ICS' from __init__.py in Players/ (missing file?).
o If an engine is not installed then:
  - Player.name must be '' not None.
  - self.inn.readline() will return '', return from method to avoid
    infinite loop.

There is no contact information for this project in source or webpage, for
more information contact me at [email protected]. I have a
similar PyGTK project (glchess.sourceforge.net) - I would be interested in
making these two projects as compatible as possible (i.e. save games and
LAN networking).

Cheers,
--Robert

A combo box with preset timesettings like blitz, normal, bullet, etc.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Just start PyChess

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
There is a GtkWarning on my system. It doesn't break anything as far as I know.

./PyChess.py:285: GtkWarning: gtk_notebook_set_tab_label: assertion
`GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed
  self.widgets = gtk.glade.XML("glade/PyChess.glade")

I'm using Python 2.4.3

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to http://pychess.googlepages.com/about
2. Read "...The client should be usable both to those totally knew to chess"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should be "new" instead of "knew".

A sidepanel showing how the engine is planing the game to evolve.
Will you be dead in three turns?

Side panel should be able to view different stuff (Title should be a
combobox like in totem).
Content will be:
* Moves
* Taken pieces
* Score (See isue #1: http://code.google.com/p/pychess/issues/detail?id=1)

Use gconf to save the sidepanels hiden/shown status

PyChess might know a library of openings, that it can use to analyze the game.

Add signs to saved pgns.
    * ! a good move
    * !! an excellent move
    * ? a mistake
    * ?? a blunder
    * !? an interesting move that may not be best
    * ?! a dubious move, but not easily refuted
    * □ forced move

Shows what the opponent might want to move next time.
See: http://www.chessbase.com/fritz8/beginner/spy.htm

Vista has it: http://www.vistaarticles.com/content_images/games1.jpg

There are .pyc, .gladep and .gladep.bak files in the subversion repository.
You may want to mark these files as ignored using 'svn propedit svn:ignore
.' in each directory.

Need support for stallmate
#3 Three equal positions in row
# Being unable to move

Show what the opponent might want to move next time.
See: http://www.chessbase.com/fritz8/beginner/spy.htm

It would be nice to have an option for 3d graphics for the board. A related
program, glChess, already does this and is also written in python and also
GPL licensed. Maybe you can reuse some of the code?

http://glchess.sourceforge.net/

Should be able to load and save in the pgn format

A preferences item for showing unicode chesspieces like ♔ instead of
letters like k

Copy the good logsystem from wine-doors

A chessteam with cards would be sweet :D
King = King
Queen = Queen
Rook = 10
Bishop = Joker
Knight = Knight
Pawn = As.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164813 for a howto.

It should be possible to simply copy paste a chessgame as
http://www.lokasoft.nl/deepsjengmoregames.htm into pychess

Shold be able to start a tournament, with many players and all what there
to belongs as game switching and score tables.

Dialog is writting. Only need to put it the right places
(Also need a way to know, if the position is changed)

Users might want to be able to print the game.
Like in fritz: http://www.chessbase.com/fritz8/beginner/printing.htm