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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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We are happy to announce a new milestone in Opening Master development. As the new technology goes forward, we are now able to migrate different databases from one format to another while still being fully functional. This was not possible few months / years ago.
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 |
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The Centaur in the chess is chessplayer who uses computer help
throughout the game. The opponents use it too. This game named
sometimes a freestyle or assisted chess. The First OM Centaur DB has 302,933 games from year 2008...
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 |
SCID has released a new version.
The main changes are connected with limits 2 GB for file length and 16
millions games in a database.
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 |
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We wish you a Happy New Year 2010 all the best of health, happiness, joy and fruitful chess analyses. From Opening Master team.
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
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Just as UEFA has EURO socccer championship, the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) has the European Championship as well. And now is the time to watch the 7th EURO finals between 15 qualified countries...
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 |
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December is HERE. The time flies! The Opening Master team prepared for you two special openings for studying. The Grundfeld Defence and The Modern Benoni - Bronstein Variation. You may review and download them instantly from our front page. And of course this is not all : The Xmas is here and with this : our special one time offer to purchase Gold Plan and to be upgraded to Platinum automatically. What a deal!
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
Dear Chess Friends,
Today is a special day, 20 years ago, on November 17, 1989 a Velvet
Revolution started in former Czechoslovakia a peaceful revolution to
tear down the ''walls''. Today after 20 years all people around Europe
are free to travel and upload or download anything from the Internet...
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 |
Dear Chess Friends
it is a pleasure to announce another important milestone in Opening Master history. Spanish Chess Correspondence Federation (A.E.A.C) decided for exclusive database sponsorship of their chess players. It is an honor for Opening Master to provide chess database services to our colleagues from Spain. We call this month ''Spanish November'' not mentioning a new release of Opening Master for this month - 1.21 with 5,717.136 games in total having its OM 2500 184.545 games. Last updated November 7.
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Dear Chess Friends,
We are proud to announce an important milestone of Opening Master.
Recently ICCF-US chess federation and Opening Master singed bilateral
agreement on cooperation between the two parties. Opening Master will
be providing chess databases during 2009/2010 period.
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
Dear Chess Friends,
the European Championships are at full speed. Recently we recorded an interesting game where different colors bishops play important role. Take our short survey and you can win a prize...
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Sunday, 06 September 2009 |
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The theme of September is "BACK TO SCHOOL". In our other article we named few reasons why it is important that kids learn to play chess. The Opening Master team is giving out huge discounts in September. Here are the rules...
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Sunday, 06 September 2009 |
Dear Chess friends,
September 2009 is here, the summer is over, children and students return to their schools to teach something new. Believe it or not some elementary schools in Slovakia have chess classes part of their syllabus. Only three hours per week but the children who sign up for this class will be somehow different to their class mates.
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Friday, 24 July 2009 |
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The European ICCF championship is here again. After almost half year, many games were finished, countries and federations see how they stand after 7 months. Let's wrap up and look at some ''anomalies''.
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Sunday, 05 July 2009 |
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The Opening Master team just released the summer hot version - July 2009 with its 5,625.215 games without duplicates. This month we devoted to do some house cleaning therefore you will notice the database increased only slightly of about 21 thousands games compared to last month. BUT the entire June our team was working on the house keeping....
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Sunday, 07 June 2009 |
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The Opening Master prepared for June two special openings played at various levels. One is popular Sicilian game called Sicilian Closed Variation (B25) and second well known Budapest Gambit (or sometime called Defence - A51). Download free PDF reports to see more than 5,000 games played....
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Sunday, 24 May 2009 |
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The Sicilian Defence has many mainstream variations. One of them is
Sicilian : Sozin - Velimirovic Attack, but all depends what Black plays
after 6th move. Sozin didn't play this move first in order
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
Dear Chess Friends,
recently we decided to upgrade our technical capacity and agreed with
our hosting provider to run our web pages under dedicated server environment.
The decision was a must due to ever increasing demand of data from you...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 |
Dear chess friends
as every month, we are brining new openings for analysis and learning. This week we analyzed our four favorite openings :
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Monday, 23 February 2009 |
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Chebanenko Slav Defence /aka Chameleon/ is now very popular between players
who want a flexibile position against 1.d4, or want desorienting White
opponent
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Monday, 09 February 2009 |
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Smith-Morra Gabmit is a kind of Anti-Sicilian Opening. The GM's do not play
it often because one offers 2 pawns which is too painful. On the other hand
this opening have some reasonable features.
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Saturday, 07 February 2009 |
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The Perenyi Attack (B81) is one of the sharpest lines in the Sicilian Defence and starts with the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.g4 e5 8.Nf5. It is a clone of Schveveningen Keres attack when Black move e5 to
provoke white...
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