No, it’s not the Shredder of TMNT fame, it’s the Shredder 11 Computer Chess machine.

Three levels of difficulty are offered: easy, medium and hard. I haven’t beaten Shredder 11 on ‘hard’ yet. Would like to see somebody put Star Wars chess in the Xbox Live Arcade. Speaking of Chess, there is Chessmaster on the Xbox but nothing on the Xbox 360 so far that I’m aware of.

XboxTopic.com hatches a “conspiracy theory“:

So if Microsoft won’t publish a chess arcade title, why is Ubisoft waiting on Chessmaster? …. Ubisoft wants to allow cross-platform chess play, running on their own servers. Xbox 360 users pipe in through Live. PC, Mobile, PS3 and Wii users pipe in their own respective ways. And anybody who wants to can play against anybody else, regardless of platform. It’s CHESS, for crying out loud, not Shadowrun. It shouldn’t be hard to implement, technically. Bureaucratically, however, it may be extremely difficult.

If this theory is close to reality, that’s sad. In the meantime if you want to play against human opponents online, Free Internet Chess is one good destination. I like their motto: “we do it for the game, not the money.”