Shredder Classic 5 - Chess Playing Software Download

Shredder Classic 5 (Download)

Shredder Classic 5 is a great start in the Shredder chess world for Windows.

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

Shredder Chess Software for Windows

The chess programs Shredder Classic 5 Windows, Shredder 13 Windows and Deep Shredder 13 Windows 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, including a built-in chess coach, who is alert to mistakes and helps improve your chess play. Click here to find out more about the differences between those three versions.

What's New in Shredder:

    Improved chess engine, more than 330(!) Elo stronger than the predecessor
    More than 1000 built-in chess puzzles
    Learn and practice openings
    Practice technical and practical endgames
    Play handicap games
    New hires piece sets and boards
    Modern design
    Improved 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 both in 2D and 3D
    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
    Built-in Chess coach, who is alert of mistakes and suggests better moves
    Own games can be automatically examined for mistakes
    Daily updated chess puzzles with three levels of difficulty
    The program always keeps up-to-date with automatic online updates
    Opening advisor allows Shredder to play much better without opening book
    Ability to play Chess960, also know as Fischer Random Chess
    Direct access to huge online endgame database with more than 1200 GB data
    User interface in German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.
    Moves can easily be entered by mouse or keyboard
    Extensive documentation
    Tip of the day
    Games can be provided with alternative lines and comments
    Many features for training and analysis
    Manifold possibilities to systematically search and examine the chess endgame databases
    Free, open protocol between chess user interface and chess engine (UCI protocol)
    Possibility to simultaneously load up to ten chess engines
    Many possibilities for automatic tests and comparisons of different chess engines
    Shredderbases: new extremely fast and compact chess endgame databases
    Computer assisted game analysis
    Direct access to online chess opening database with more than 16 million moves
    Rated games against different computer opponents to measure one’s own play strength
    Automatic game level where Shredder will always play with your strength
    Voice output of the moves
    Arrows to show threats, hints, best engine moves and the last move
    Graphical display of the legal moves and the attacked pieces
    Automatic histogram generation

Shredder Classic 5 Windows runs on all Windows PCs with at least Windows Vista including Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.