Why You Should Play Chess Online This Oktoberfest. Best With a Hot Cacao and the World’s Largest Human Chess Database

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Published: Sunday, 05 October 2025 20:05
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While Oktoberfest is best known for beer, pretzels, and Bavarian music, there’s another tradition worth celebrating this season - sharpening your mind. As the weather cools and the evenings get longer, it’s the perfect time to settle in with a cup of hot cacao, open Chess.com or Lichess, and give your brain the same joy that your taste buds get at the festival.

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Back to school and the emergence of the next generation of chess players

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Published: Monday, 01 September 2025 20:44
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Dear students, children, youngsters. You are going back. Back to school. The summer holidays are over and most of you are returning back to school this month. (some schools in US are already opened 2 weeks). You want to play chess, some just starting. We have prepared for you a great educational tool for you. It's called Opening Master.

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Opening Master. 25 Years of Chess Excellence and Why It Still Matters

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Published: Wednesday, 11 June 2025 23:52
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In the ever-evolving world of chess, where engines grow stronger, ChatGPT is everywhere and preparation becomes ever more critical, one thing remains constant - the need for accurate, reliable, and comprehensive game data. That’s where Opening Master stands tall, not only as a chess database but as the official chess collection trusted by thousands of FIDE-certified educators and chess professionals around the globe, chess masters and basically anyone who ever downloaded Opening Master Chess Database

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Opening Master April 2025 update with 10,2 mil human chess games

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Published: Sunday, 06 April 2025 06:55
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March was a dynamic and electrifying month for the global chess community. From world-class tournaments to almost perfect individual performances, the chessboard saw battles that inspired fans and grandmasters alike. Let’s take a quick tour through the highlights. And we updated Opening Master with most up to date data. More than 10,2 million human chess games.

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The Biggest Chess Database Clean-up of the Century and why Opening Master Strikes for Quality

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Published: Tuesday, 18 February 2025 23:51
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The world of chess databases just witnessed a historic transformation! At Opening Master, we have undertaken the biggest clean-up of the century, removing more than 200,000 chess players and their games from our extensive 10.3 million game collection, bringing the total down to 10,111,107 games in our OM OTB (Over-the-Board) database.

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Chess outreach programs and February 2025 updates

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Published: Sunday, 09 February 2025 18:34
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Powerful stories of strong minded people effecting hundreds of thousands young children not only in Africa. Tunde Onakoya is now in New York where I met him last time discussing how one can grow up in the Slums one day and next day present at Oxford last year or Harvard and MIT now about positive aspects of chess in outreach communities. Together with Chess in Slums Africa charity programs and The Gift of Chess stories are possible. We shared the latest ones on our social media.

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Project STEM CHESS 2025 Announcement FIDE EDU and OPENINGMASTER

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Published: Sunday, 09 February 2025 13:50
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Opening Master and FIDE Education Commission is calling all out STEM graduate degree students who would like to author interesting BIG DATA chess science project. With a massive chess database like Opening Master OTB with 10.3 millions official human games, we are selecting three predictive analytics projects that could yield interesting results for further chess theory study.

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Opening Master's Black Friday and Cyber Monday Extravaganza

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Published: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 20:52
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Greetings, chess enthusiasts! BLACK FRIDAY 2024 IS HERE. The best sales chess event of the year is upon us, and Opening Master Chess Database is rolling out the red carpet for all chess players and passionate strategists. Buckle up for a chess revolution as we present our Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, offering an unbeatable 50% discount on all purchases!

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