Last updated on June 4th, 2023 at 05:16 am
Shredder Chess
Shredder Chess is one of the best $3.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Eiko Bleicher, Shredder Chess is a Board game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 27th March 2009 with the latest update 21st February 2021
Whether you are a fan of Board, Education, or Strategy games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
79 people have rated 1.11.0
You can download the game Shredder Chess from APP STORE.
Description
Shredder, the most successful chess program ever, is now also available for the iPhone. You can play against Shredder, analyze with him and solve chess puzzles. It offers the usual Shredder standard for your pocket.
In addition to the outstanding playing strength of the 12 times computer chess world champion, Shredder is also able to mimic the play of a human chess player with any playing strength. He even deliberately makes typical human mistakes in those levels.
Solve 1000 built in chess puzzles. Shredder keeps track of your performance and offers advice if needed.
You can adjust Shredder’s playing strength from beginner to master level. If you like, Shredder automatically adjusts his strength to yours. He even calculates an Elo rating for you. This is how the playing strength of chess players is typically measured.
During the game a coach is watching your moves and warns you if you are about to make a mistake.
See how you are getting better and better the more games you play and the more chess puzzles you solve.
- Adjustable playing strength
- Intuitive and very easy to operate
- 1000 built in chess puzzles
- See your rating in a diagram
- Outstanding playing strength on the iPhone
- Analyse your games with Shredder, find your mistakes and improve your play
- Coach shows your mistakes
- Different playing styles from passive to aggressive
- Great variety: opening book with more than one million moves
- Enter and analyze any position you like
- Load and save games (incl. names, date, etc.)
- Send games via email
- Different chess boards and pieces
- Support for VoiceOver / Accessibility
- Improve your play whenever and wherever you like
Also check out our highly refined version for iPad.
Updated on 21st February 2021
Compatibility fixes: in some circumstances the opening book was not visible and the email form was behaving badly.
Shredder Chess Reviews
Any chance of getting an update to support the X and above screens?
We absolutely LOVE this app! Shredder is by FAR the best chess app we’ve ever used. Its breathtakingly FAST! Using it in aggressive mode is how we like to use it, because it makes every game FUN! Beyond the excitement of each game played that way, we find that taking additional time to study the record of each game solidifies our understanding of what the hell happened A summary of all our experience doing battle with Shredder: among all the best living players we’ve ever gone up against even the most accommodating, patient, informative, and generous of opponents none has taught us as much in such an amazingly short time as has Shredder. In aggressive mode, even though we realize its thinking far, far ahead and referring to a huge database of games played by grand masters to prepare itself for each potential move (modifying both its strategy and its tactics along the way), it makes each move so ridiculously quickly that we just pretend Im facing a truly awesome competitor who will still gladly teach us how to weigh the options in any given situation and to think ahead the way he does. Its wonderful! *** we’ve enthusiastically recommended Shredder to every chess lover we’ve ever known, and each of them has wound up doing exactly the same. Pass it on!
UI needs to be updated and needs to be resized. Overall great app. Happy with the purchase.
This is just a rock solid chess app. The engine is great, there are no silly gimmicks, and the interface is clean with the options youd expect.
Shredder though getting old is still easily the best chess application in the App Store for iPhone or iPad.
We love this app. We review all our over the board games right away and save it. Works perfectly on the iPhone.
We like the puzzles, the puzzles vary in difficulty level, so we do not find them too easy or too daunting. We keep on getting hints when we make mistake or we use analysis in the end. We would like some analysis for better lines in addition to the evaluation number.
This is a fantastic chess app – probably the best on the App Store. The biggest problem: we’re just really disappointed that you can play only one game at a time. You should be able to play multiple games you can toggle back and forth between. Right now, it’s only one game at a time… Which makes it very slow for playing different positions or openings simultaneously. So that makes it a bit annoying to use as a self-teaching app.
This app is great. The developer has been very helpful, even with minor concerns. It is also accessible to blind people, which is necessary for us. We would recommend this app to anyone.
Don’t waste your time with the puzzle feature,because it’s full of mistakes.
Great chess game we’ve been using for years. Suddenly theres a bug where after a game the computer says it will increase its rating to the maximum (2600) difficulty, even if we lose. It used to work well and increment based on performance and it was our favorite feature.
Im getting sick and tired of this app. Im a class A player (1800+) and like to play on the app on the rides home. No matter what setting we choose we get demolished at 1800. At the 1700 its too easy. We play live over the board tournaments all the time and rarely (never) do you see 1800 players attack wildly before they even develop. The app gets away with it because it has perfect calculation within a number of plays. If we wanted to play a harder level we would choose 2100+ in the settings. Please calibrate this app. If we wanted to play against a titled caliber player we would not choose the 1800 setting at normal. Other than that the app works fine.
It is great to see that the Shredder development team has continued to support this application. Such continued efforts are the hallmark of quality on iOS, and serve as the gold standard to all prospective developers. Thanks for a great app. Edit: The latest updates have been halfhearted at best. It would be nice to see the developers give this gem the attention and polish it deserves, as I’d love to increase our rating to 5-stars.
Titles as it all: Do we have to pay for the app on every phone???
How long its gonna take them to add new screens support? Another couple of years? Jee.
We’ve been using shredder for years on our computer and love it. We’re enjoying it very much on our iPhone 6Plus as well! Thumbs way up!
Shredder is absolutely the best chess app. The fact that Shredder can be set to automatically adjust it’s strength after every game makes it the perfect trainer. Puzzles are great challenge too. It could do with a update though ;)
Great app, please update for IOS 9 ASAP as the app now crashes.
Shredder is a great trainer, keep up the good work guys!
Best chess CPU/learning experience around. Works perfect with new iPhone. Thanks for the app! So worth the money.
It quit working recently, so we deleted and reinstalled. That appears to have worked. Good chess app. The best.
Could be 5 stars if all iOS 8.x.x would be solved.
We love this app. However it has many problems and it really requires an update, is difficulty is not really in ordered of strenght as its rating in 1250 is more challenging than 1450, it would be better if they add a solution to this problen in the later update.
We don’t know what happened with this app. We used it for years and never had any problems. It was our favorite chess application. Now it crashes after ever other use. We have to continually delete and reinstall to make it work. Not worth the price they charge any more….
Since iOS8 if our iPhone is shut off during a game, the app locks up solid & must be reloaded.
We’re revisiting our previous 5 star rating on this once Amazing app. It’s sad to see that it hasn’t received a single update since 2014. It’s become more buggy over time and now it lacks serious functions and features :( we hope the developer pays enough attention to this. Thank you.
Update: we no longer have access to opening books. When we try to open and view the possible selections for openings, we get a blank page with lines. Openings are one of the biggest reasons why we loved this app and now it’s gone. Please fix this ASAP and the app will be perfect again like it once was.
The app crashes using IOS 7. Fix this problem please.
It simply won’t open after a few uses and we have had to delete it and re-install it over and over.
Exceptional when it works. It is very buggy and crashes. We will change to a 5 star once fixed.
We absolutely loved this app… Until latest update continually makes our elo "4503" and therefore makes Shredder 2600. Needless to say we’re not a grand master and we can’t use this app anymore without getting crushed. Please fix it and we will update our review.
It was good until we opened it and it crashed. 5 stars when it is fixed.
Raitings are broken since ios 8 came out – we are ranked 7400+ ….
Simply the best $10 we’ve ever spent on chess, and we’ve spent a lot of $$ on chess computers, programs, books etc. Except latest release is just shutting down immediately on our 4s iPhone. When this is fixed we’ll glow again about this program. Very ver strong player when it works.
We have iOS 9,I think it the best chess app you can learn a lot from this app (auto rating, ant puzzle ) but it keeping crashing and crashing all time. Do wast your time and money they never try to fix it very good app but very very poor support.
Fonts are blurry and UI is fuzzy please fix.
We’ve used this app for years now as a casual player. It’s wonderful how well it adjusts to your playing level — when it works. As of the latest update, it does not open.
While using hotspot , board/menu is not displayed properly and it is not playable. Many apps handle hotspot correctly. Been that way a while now. You would expect a better for a paid app. Chess Genius does it correctly.
Still does not play right, even after update.
Thanks for the update for iPhone 5! The clocks are a nice addition. One minor comment- it feels like there’s too much space above and below the buttons. We assume so it works without changes on a 4S. But we wonder if better use could be made of the extra space, for example a scrollable and tappable list of moves?
Mostly flawless. Minor flaw: can’t look up opening positions by name. Major flaw: can’t play music while running Shredder. Almost lost a star for that one.
This is the best chess app we’ve ever used! The individual rating system lets one play an even match with the program, rather than getting slaughtered by a powerful computer. Go for it, you’ll enjoy its many features whether beginner or genius.
We have 10 or so chess programs. We don’t use the other 9 much anymore. This one is better than all the others combined.
First of all best program out there! From features to usability this is the one period. Love the puzzle section and just packed with every feature you need. What was a pleasant surprise to us was the support. We sent an email and got a reply in less than two hours! Where else are you going to find support this good?! Outstanding in every way…
Played dozens of chess programs over the decades, this one is epic! Very tasteful design. Could use more sets, but then again we’re greedy…