#21 Time Clock

[Steven Peterson]

Sometimes I wish it would output the total match
time at the end of a game. Even just "Time =
HH:MM.SS" in the corner next to where it says
"checkmate X wins".

Another idea is to build in a interactive "Hall of
Fame" or "Favorite Games" into the interface. You'd
be prompted if you wanted to save this game to
favorites, and it would save fields like your name, the
match time, the score, the winner, and a short
comment field. Then you could click "view Hall of
fame" and it would out put a "high-score sheet"
similar to mine-sweeper or any other game with your
favorite matches. Then you could click on one to open
it like a hyperlink and further analyise it like you can
a normaly saved game.... just an idea.

[Troy Corbin Jr.]

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A lot of that can be acomplished already using the 'Append
to Save File' option. All matches you play will be saved into a
single file, which you can reopen and browse in Knights or
any other chess program. The file format ( called Portable
Game Notation, or PGN ) supports much of what you want,
including comments, who won, etc. Although Knights doesn't
yet let you edit this file directly, there are several other
programs that will let you ( like the chess database SCID ),
and that is a planned feature for the future.

Although Knights does not yet tally the total time a match
takes, this could be included in the future.