The software that played a tie against Kasparov has been improved.

It now offers bonus materials: tips and tactics and also chess performance analysis with chess engines. What has started out with the famous bishop sacrifice on h2 against Kasparov has now been fine tuned into a smooth, dynamic, human like playing style. Junior 10 is 2006 computer chess champion, having defeated the Shredder program in Turin in Italy.

There is no software today that has won as many computer chess events as Shredder.  Shredder 10 was written by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen of Germany.  The new version 10 has been drastically improved and can play about 80 Elo points better then the previous version.  We are glad to say that the improvements in Shredder 10 are not just in the fact that it is stronger then rivals on the market.  Shredder 10 is a very strong analytical tool that is good for amateur and expert players.  Shredder 10 has an extremely powerful endgame database that is used in a very unique way.

I recently received a copy of Fritz 8 at my doorstep and quickly fired it up to see what I would have to say about it.  Overall it has many of the same features that were available in Fritz 7.