History of Opening Master - the chess database company

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Published: Wednesday, 02 December 2020 21:02

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The original name Opening Master was born in 2004 when the website was also registered. The founder and creator Alexander Horvath, SIM (1954 - 2013) was a big fan of collecting data since the origin of correspondence chess back in the 80s. I personally remember him writing down all the games in a big red notebook, studying the opponents from the older notes, and having thousands of books on different openings.

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Queen's Gambit review history with Netflix

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Published: Monday, 23 November 2020 21:26

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As the story of a girl who ascends from finding the game in an orphanage house cellar to the top of the chess world, Netflix's new miniseries The Queen's Gambit can't generally fall flat. At the point when it depends on the book of a similar name by unbelievable short story essayist and writer Walter Tevis, upon whose work the movies The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and The Color of Money were additionally based, the chances of progress appear to be much higher. But what about the history of Queen's Gambit? Are we all familiar with it?

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A very Merry Christmas from Opening Master

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Published: Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:17

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Team Opening Master wishes you very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. If we can revisit the entire year it's been a crazy ride. We did a lot of cleaning in the house, improving the indexing and increasing some valuable games.

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Opening Master cooperation with AICCF INDIA

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Published: Thursday, 01 December 2016 11:24

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Dear AICCF member. There is a special offer for AICCF INDIA players! We are happy to announce that due to recent cooperation agreement between AICCF and Opening Master - The Chess Database Company, we can offer to all AICCF members Special Discount Offer of 50%.                                            

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Karjakin - Carlsen who is champion?

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Published: Friday, 25 November 2016 08:54

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Isn't this excited? The longest stalemate for period of more than 20 years. Sergey Karjakin (RUS) plays against Magnus Carlsen (NOR) and it is never ending story. The first 7 matches out of 12 ended in 7 consecutive draws. After 12 matches, the score was 6:6 and both players went to Rapid games. Forget about football, cricket or ice hockey, the whole world is now watching chess. It is east battling the west again like it was during the Cold war in Reykjavik, Iceland. The defending champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen however doesn't have it easy.

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Migration of cloud service

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Published: Friday, 18 November 2016 08:14

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Dear Chess friends,

we have an important announcement to make. After 6 years of using cloud services of our vendor SugarSync we decided it is time to move on to better, faster and more reliable. We have heard many unpleasant stories about slow downloading, breaks, corrupted files etc and contacted number of times the help desk of SugarSync. Their response was always like it is the users issue, they have slow internet or provider is blocking their services and other B.S. Despite numerous attempts to show them comparison of other services they were unable to help us. So it is time to move on. We have found better, faster, more reliable service to you. It is called Sync.com.

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ICCF - OM worldwide promotion

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Published: Thursday, 13 October 2016 09:07

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We are proud to present the worldwide agreement with ICCF about providing 50% discount to all ICCF valid members. Chess users can claim this discount via using special promo code received in their newsletters. If you missed the ICCF email, the copy is provided here. Please use this one time offer until December 31,2016.

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Why don't women play chess?

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Published: Monday, 05 October 2015 21:34

Written by Paulo Morais

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This Tuesday, October 6^th, the 1^st European Universities Chess Championship (EUCC) will start..

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Time, changes, chess: faster!?

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Published: Sunday, 27 September 2015 10:55

Written by Paulo Morais

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"The times they are a-changin'" - Bob Dylan. Yes, Uncle Bob was right in the 1960s, is right now and will be right for ever and ever. In fact, the times are changing every day, every hour, every second. Conversely, chess has been quite stable throughout the times. Probably, it's due to its double art/game character.

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OM Power 2015

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Published: Saturday, 23 May 2015 12:06

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Welcome to the most powerful (and free) chess database - OM POWER 2015. It is offered as freebie from us. All chess friends can download it for free and test it.

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