Shredder is a commercial chess program developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993. Shredder won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in 1996 and 2000, the World Computer Chess Championship in 1999 and 2003, and the World Computer Speed Chess Championship in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007. The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. ... Stefan Meyer-Kahlen is a German programmer of the computer chess program Shredder. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. ... World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. ... World Computer Speed Chess Championship is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other at blitz chess time controls. ...

On the November 24, 2006 SSDF rating list, Shredder 10.0 placed sixth, with a rating of 2832 — 8 points below Spike 1.2 , 10 points below Fruit 2.2.1, 18 points below HIARCS 10 ,22 points below Junior 10 and 86 points below #1 ranked Rybka 1.2, which had a rating of 2918. is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Swedish Chess Computer Association (Svenska schackdatorföreningen (SSDF) in Swedish) is an organization that tests computer chess software by playing chess programs against one another and producing a rating list. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Fruit is a chess engine developed by Fabien Letouzey. ... HIARCS is a commercial computer chess program developed by Mark Uniacke. ... Junior is a computer chess program authored by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky. ... Rybka is a computer chess engine by International Master Vasik Rajlich. ...

On the January 24, 2007 CEGT rating list, Deep Shredder 10.0 placed fifth, with a rating of 2855 — 5 points below LoopMp, 22 points below Deep Fritz 10, and 160 points below #1 ranked Rybka 2.1, which had a rating of 3015. is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Chess Engines Grand Tournament, also known as CEGT, is one of the best known organizations that test computer chess software by playing chess programs against one another and producing a rating list. ... Chess Go The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... Deep Fritz is a multi-processor version of the computer chess engine Fritz written by Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist. ... Rybka is a computer chess engine by International Master Vasik Rajlich. ...

Version 10.0 was released in June 2006. Version 11.0 approx elo 3000 released Oct 2007 still not as strong as Rybka 2.3 approx elo 3100

Awards

Shredder has won a number of computer chess tournaments since its inception:

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Sample game

The following game was played between Shredder (playing as black) and List at the 2003 World Computer Chess Championship. Shredder sacrifices a piece in exchange for a strong initiative in a position too complex for the computer to calculate to the end. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an annual event where computer chess engines compete against each other. ...

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qa4 Bc5 6.Nb5 Nf6 7.e5 Nxe5 8.Bf4 Nfg4 9.Nh3 f6 10.Be2 h5 11.Bxg4 hxg4 12.Bxe5 fxe5 13.Qxg4 O-O 14.O-O-O d5 15.Rhf1 Bd7 16.Nc3 Rc8 17.Kb1 Bd4 18.Ne2 Bxb2 19.Kxb2 Qb6+ 20.Kc1 Qa6 21.Rd2 Rc4 22.Qg6 Be8 23.Qd3 Qxa2 24.Kd1 Qa1+ 25.Nc1 Ba4 26.Qg6 Rf6 27.Qg5 Rf5 28.Qe3 Qb2 29.Qe2 e4 30.f4 e3 31.Qxe3 Bxc2+ 32.Ke2 Re4 0-1

See also

• Chess engine
• Chess (programming)

A chess engine is a computer program that can play the game of chess. ... The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. ...

External links

• Shredder home page
• Shredder's games on ChessGames.com