Shredder is a commercial chess engine and graphical user interface (GUI) developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993.
The Shredder engine version 10.0 was released in June 2006.
Shredder is one of the few commercial chess programs which is available not only for Windows and Mac OS, but also for Linux.
[3] GNOME Chess[4] is used as the graphical front-end for Shredder.
Shredder has participated in a number of computer chess tournaments since its inception.