- Price$3.99
- CategoryGames
- SubgenreBoard
- First releasedMarch 27, 2009
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerEiko Bleicher, Skizzix.com
- Bundle IDcom.skizzix.ShredderChess
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueShredder, 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.
Bundle Size Over Time
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2017 | 1.7.1 | ★ 4.0 | 12 | $3.99 |
| November 24, 2020 | — | ★ 4.3 | 54 | $3.99 |
| December 3, 2021 | 1.11.0 | ★ 4.4 | 68 | $3.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25I 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!
Buy something else
Great chess game I’ve been using for years. Suddenly there’s a bug where after a game the computer says it will increase its rating to the maximum (2600) difficulty, even if I lose. It used to work well and increment based on performance and it was my favorite feature.
Great app, also great on iPad
Any chance of getting an update to support the X and above screens?
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.
Look no further! Shredder Chess is the GOAT
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 you’d expect.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.