chess master

/tʃɛs ˌmæstər/
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Definitions of chess master
  1. noun
    a chess player of great skill
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    Robert James Fischer
    United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
    Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov
    Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951)
    Gary Weinstein
    Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963)
    Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
    Russian chess master (born in 1931)
    Boris Vasilevich Spassky
    Russian chess master who moved to Paris; world champion from 1969 to 1972 (born in 1937)
    type of:
    chess player
    someone who plays the game of chess
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