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.

In the latest version of Shredder, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen has introduced something called “Shredderbases” which is a very powerful improvement.  This basically allows the program to access tablebases thousands of times faster then was previously possible.  Tablebases allow the software to announce mates in 20 to 80 moves as the final outcome of their games.

The new method being used by Shredder 10 allows the tablebases to be compressed very small so that they are able to be placed into the RAM memory of most modern computers.  This allows the tablebases to be accessed in a much sorter amount of time.  Previously, traditional Nalimov tablebases required around 7500 MB.  With the new Shredderbases, each 3 and 4 piece endgames take up a mere one megabyte.  This is a huge difference and saves countless time.

Shredder 10 can load the complete 3 or 4 or 5 piece endgame into RAM memory and therefore the hard drive is not required to access them.  This reduces the amount of time you need to wait for them to load by a factor of 1000.  Now you can access the endgame database much more often and not have to waste any time doing so.  Shredder 10 has really hit it big with this new feature.  The playing strength and analysis capability has been given an extreme improvement which bullets it ahead of most other software on the market today.