Recent changes to feature-requests

#49 PHP 5.6 or higher

Rodrigo Flores — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:52:12 -0000

Ticket moved from /p/webchess/bugs/80/

Pending challenges/mail notifications

sourceforge — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:08:29 -0000

Would you be able to add some kind of notification stating that you have a new message, or a new challenge?
ie: Place the number of challenges pending next to the pending challenges link in the menu
or, (less preferred) a popup saying theres a new message/challenge.

Encrypt passphrases

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:33:33 -0000

The passwords currently are stored in plain text.

Thanks

From -> To indicator

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:30:03 -0000

It's great to see some development. It'd be nice to find the additions from this thread: https://sourceforge.net/projects/webchess/forums/forum/185150/topic/1378780 incorporated into the "official" sources.

Thanks in advance

Time control

rigao — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:57:22 -0000

I'll patch a time control myself. As this is not a patch right now, because there is no development branch yet, I post it in features. It will go to patches later on.

I include the table proposal so anyone can discuss it here.

AJAX

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:37:40 -0000

AJAX interface so that the page does not reload.

conditional moves

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:11:02 -0000

Sometimes you play a sequence of maneuvers making your opponent reply with forced moves.

It would be nice to have a possibility to simply programme your answer to your oppononent's obvious next move in advance.

It works on gameknot.com for example.

Play WebChess via email

DragonsWake — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:38:18 -0000

It occurred to me that it would be useful if Webchess could be expanded to increase its use with mobile devices that do not have fully functional web browsers by allowing play via email.

This could be accomplished by expanding the capability of the email notification system by allow it to accept moves/commands via email responses to a central email address.

As in a Mailing List application, the users could issue moves/commands to play Webchess. (e2-e4, offer draw, list users, challenge user, etc).

The mail notification system will need to be expanded to show the current board position (ASCII I imagine)
Ex.

rnbqkbnr
pppppppp
........
........
........
........
PPPPPPPP
RNBQKBNR

This feature should be more than possible with a MTA (Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, Mercury mail, etc) that can forward emails to a .php program for processing.

I will be working on a proof of concept and will post the link here as demonstration.

Instant messaging support

Erik Wegner — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:15:24 -0000

I'd like to have support for instant messaging, i. e.
to recieve a notification, when someone else invited
me, send me a message within webchess or it's my turn
in an active game. I prefer the jabber protocol,
because it's also free and easy to use.

There's a php implementation of a jabber client at
http://cjphp.netflint.net which can be used in the
following way:

function messageIM() {
require("class.jabber.php");
$jabber = new Jabber();
$jabber->Connect();
$jabber->SendAuth();
$message = array();
$message[subject] = "WebChess";
$message[body] = "The opponent has moved.\nhttp://
your-webchess-website.net/";
$to = "user@jabberserver.example.net";
$jabber->SendMessage($to,"normal","",$message,NULL);
$jabber->Disconnect();
}

I do have this feature working, but it only works for
my user and it only notifies my about the opponent
making his move. So please implement it in a way it
works for all users and all events. If you need further
information, please contact me.

Interface to chess engine for Human vs PC play.

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:56:13 -0000

Any thoughts on the feasibility of creating an
interface to a chess engine? Been looking at it and
had some ideas.