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Shredder Classic 5 - Chess Playing Software Download

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Shredder Classic 5 (Download)
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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.