Play, train and analyze with Shredder Chess: adaptive strength, puzzles, coach, Elo rating and powerful game analysis.
Play better chess with Shredder Chess - the classic chess opponent, trainer and analysis partner for iPhone.
Shredder gives you a chess opponent that adapts to your level, from casual beginner to strong club player. Play a quick game, solve tactics, get warned before mistakes and analyze your games to understand where you can improve.
Whether you want to learn chess, sharpen your tactics or simply enjoy a good game, Shredder helps you make every move count.
Why chess players choose Shredder:
• Adaptive playing strength from beginner to master level
• Optional auto-adjusting opponent that matches your play
• Built-in coach that warns you before mistakes
• 1,000 chess puzzles for tactics training
• Game analysis to find mistakes and improve your play
• Estimated Elo rating with progress diagram
• Human-like playing styles, from passive to aggressive
• Opening book with more than one million moves
• Set up and analyze any position
• Save games, share them by email and review later
• Multiple boards and pieces
• VoiceOver and accessibility support
The Shredder chess programs have won 19 World Computer Chess Champion titles, making Shredder one of the most successful names in computer chess.
Play a game. Solve a puzzle. Analyze your moves. Get stronger with Shredder Chess.
I absolutely LOVE this app! Shredder is by FAR the best chess app I’ve ever used.It’s breathtakingly FAST!Using it in “aggressive mode” is how I like to use it, because it makes every game FUN!Beyond the excitement of each game played that way, I find that taking additional time to study the record of each game solidifies my understanding of what the hell happened 🤔 🤣A summary of all my experience doing battle with Shredder:among all the best living players I’ve ever gone up against — even the most accommodating, patient, informative, and generous of opponents — none has taught me as much in such an amazingly short time as has Shredder.In aggressive mode, even though I realize it’s 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 I just pretend I’m facing a truly awesome competitor who will still gladly teach me how to weigh the options in any given situation and to think ahead the way he does. It’s wonderful! ♥️***I’ve enthusiastically recommended Shredder to every chess lover I’ve ever known, and each of them has wound up doing exactly the same.Pass it on!
Great app, but got puzzle scoring problems
sir.ivanhoe
I love this app, have been using it for years. However, there has been a long standing problem with the way it calculates scores for puzzles. In particular, not all puzzles get included in the scoring. Sometimes you can play a few and the scores never get updated. Or sometimes you solve a few puzzles with the top score, but your average score actually goes down. I usually reset my score after every 100 puzzles, and so it’s not that hard to see whether it’s updating it and if it’s accurate. I’ll be happy to give it 5 stars if this gets fixed.
Still rocks after 2 years of no updates
Bprijadi
I believe this is my best purchase on a chess app on IOS. I spent $7.99 in Feb of 2013 for this and after 10 years and many IOS version updates Shredder chess still is my go-to chess app for puzzles, playing, and learning. 1000 puzzles is a lot, and the best thing is I can continue playing against the engine at the position where the puzzle is solved for endgame practice.
It works, but get the lite version
5320
The title says it all- this works well enough; but it’s slow and the puzzle solutions are full of problems. This app was highly recommended to me by two good players, so it’s disappointing to find several mistakes in their puzzle solutions within the first day using the app. I do like the customization of the board and pieces available and the fact that I can review and analyze other games, etc.; but the interface could be improved quite a bit. Overall, it’s decent for an easy way to ply against a bot of customizable difficulty but there are better chess apps out there.
Developer Response
Hi there,the puzzles have been computer checked - feel free to drop us a line if you have questions with a specific puzzle!Most people love how the app works, and we are always open to suggestions to improve.
This update improves the Shredder Chess experience while keeping the classic features players rely on: adaptive strength, puzzles, coach, Elo rating and game analysis.
We have refreshed the interface, improved the overall feel of the app and made Shredder more comfortable to use on current iPhones.
Version 2.0.1
The developer, Eiko Bleicher, Skizzix.com, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
