Pocket Shredder

Pocket Shredder is a professional computer chess program by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen for your Windows Mobile device.

The play of the program can be variably adjusted to any strength, so that everyone can find an adequate chess partner. Many functions for analysing one's own games as well as a built-in coach, who is alert of one's mistakes, help to improve your play. Deep Shredder 10 UCI is the latest and strongest version of the Shredder family, a series of the best and most successful chess programs in the last years. It can use more than one CPU simultaneously on multi CPU systems to get an extra performance boost.

New in this version:

• improved chess engine, approximately 60-80 Elo stronger than the predecessor
• 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 for one year
• rated games against different computer opponents to measure one's own play strength
• automatic game level where Shredder will always play with your strength
• improved chess opening book
• voice ouputput of the moves
• improved graphics with new pieces
• 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
• chess engine can access its own chess opening book
• many more improvements

More features:

• Direct access to huge online endgame database with more than 800 GB
• The program always keeps up-to-date with automatic online updates
• User interface that is easy to handle and can be set up individually
• Six different sets of pieces and chessboards both in 2D and 3D
• Chess engine with extremely powerful play, that can be individually adjusted and configured
• Built-in Chess coach, who is alert of mistakes and suggests better moves
• Own games can be automatically examined for mistakes
• Moves can easily be entered by mouse or keyboard
• Extensive documentation
• Games can be provided with alternative lines and comments
• Many features for training and analysis
• Manifold possibilities to systematically search and examine the endgame databases
• Free, open protocol between user interface and chess engine (UCI protocol)
• Possibility to simultaneously load up to ten chess engines
• Several chess engines that differ in their playing style
• Many possibilities for automatic tests and comparisons of different chess engines

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