grandmaster
Britishnoun
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chess
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one of the top chess players of a particular country
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( capital as part of title )
Grandmaster of Russia
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Also called: International Grandmaster. chess a player who has been awarded the highest title by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs
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a leading exponent of any of various arts
Example Sentences
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For Sivanandan, the next objective is to reach grandmaster status as soon as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
She recently toppled France’s No. 3-rated player, grandmaster Marc’Andria Maurizzi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Chess is booming worldwide, with sky-high audience figures driving big sponsorship deals and celebrity status for players such as Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
He believed machines needed human intelligence to perform effectively and would point staff to an example of AI’s losing a game of chess to a human grandmaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Also supporting the belief that Bobby had experienced the ritual was the fact that, many years later, he gave an old chess clock and chess set to his Hungarian friend Pal Benko, a grandmaster.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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