Shredder Classic 5 - Chess Playing Software Download for Linux

Shredder Classic 5 for Linux (Download)

You get the latest Shredder user interface and the Shredder Classic chess engine. This chess engine has the same chess knowledge as Shredder 13 Linux and Deep Shredder 13 Linux, but its calculations are not as fast and efficient.

Shredder Chess Software for Linux

Shredder Classic 5 Linux, Shredder 13 Linux and Deep Shredder 13 Linux combine extremely powerful chess play with easy handling. The level of play of the program can be adjusted to any chess playing strength, so that everyone can find an adequate chess partner. Many functions are available for analyzing one's own chess games.

What's New in Shredder:

    Improved chess engine, more than 330(!) Elo stronger than the predecessor
    New hires piece sets and boards
    Much faster database operations
    PGN databases with unlimited size
    Better game analysis
    Single window layout
    Improved and updated chess opening book
    Many more improvements

Shredder's Other Features:

    User interface that is easy to handle and can be set up individually
    Many different sets of pieces and chessboards
    Chess engine with extremely powerful play, that can be individually adjusted and configured
    Simulates a human player with any playing strength
    Makes typical human mistakes on lower levels
    Rates your play in normal games
    Shredder adapts his playing strength automatically to your strength
    Graphical display of your progress
    Own games can be automatically examined for mistakes
    Automatic display of the chess position from anywhere in the notation or the chess engine output
    Built-in chess coach who will warn you if you make a mistake
    Direct access to online chess opening database with more than 16 million moves
    Direct access to huge online endgame database with more than 1200 GB data
    Shredderbases: new extremely fast and compact chess endgame databases
    Support for Nalimov endgame databases
    Graphical display of the game history
    Optional digital chess clocks
    Shredder is able to resign and to offer and accept draws
    Moves can easily be entered by mouse or keyboard
    Games can be provided with alternative lines and comments
    Multi variation analysis
    Free, open protocol between chess user interface and chess engine (UCI protocol)

Shredder Classic 5 Linux runs on all x64 computers with Linux.