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
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Naroditsky earned the title of grandmaster - the international chess federation's highest-ranked chess competitor - while he was still a teenager, after winning the 2013 US Junior Championship.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“They have grandmaster training at an age, where at the corresponding age I didn’t know what a grandmaster was,” Kasimdzhanov said in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Or abandon caution, follow her instincts, go for a victory that would—could—make her the tournament winner and national champion, as well as the youngest grandmaster, male or female, in the annals of the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Speaking of satisfying defeats, I dipped out between films to see the Hungarian grandmaster Judit Polgár challenge Alec Baldwin to a game of chess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Bobby defeated him in six straight games, the first shutout of a grandmaster in chess history.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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