Computer Chess 

The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax. Before the development of digital computing, serious trials based on automatons such as El Ajedrecista of 1912, were too complex and limited to be useful for playing full games of chess. The field of mechanical chess research languished until the advent of the digital computer in the 1950s. Since then, chess enthusiasts and computer engineers have built, with increasing degrees of seriousness and success, chess-playing machines and computer programs.

Chess-playing computers are now available at a very low cost. There are many programs such as Crafty, Fruit and GNU Chess that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, and yet play a game that with the aid of virtually any modern personal computer, can defeat most master players under tournament conditions. Top commercial programs like Shredder or Fritz have surpassed even world champion caliber players at blitz and short time controls.

Advanced Chess

Advanced Chess is a relatively new form of chess, first introduced by grandmaster Garry Kasparov, with the objective of a human player and a computer chess program playing as a team against other such pairs. Many Advanced Chess proponents have stressed that Advanced Chess has merits in:

• increasing the level of play to heights never before seen in chess;
• producing blunder-free games with the qualities and the beauty of both perfect tactical play and highly meaningful strategic plans;
• giving the viewing audience a remarkable insight into the thought processes of strong human chess players and strong chess computers, and the combination thereof.

Chess Database

Chess software databases are like holding the sub total of the world's chess knowledge on your local PC. Most programs offer thousands of past grandmaster games for you to review either in text or video format. There are endless opening, middlegame, and endgame strategies. You can read annotations and some titles even have photos of the world's grandmasters.
Some chess software databases come with built-in chess software that lets you play out the games that are in the database and even allow the database to analyze your game. Prices are low and chess software databases make a great learning and analytical tool. Below are the two most popular chess database programs for the last decade. They have both undergone huge development. However we  are talking here about chess database programs that can read databases not the actual collection of chess data - chess database.

Both companies offer their own databases named Huge, Big or Mega however you would like to call them. And here is where our story begins.... the story of Opening Master - the largest chess database on Earth with highest quality standards.