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Definition of Chess master
1. Noun. A chess player of great skill.
Specialized synonyms: Bobby Fischer, Fischer, Robert James Fischer, Anatoli Karpov, Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov, Karpov, Gary Kasparov, Gary Weinstein, Kasparov, Korchnoi, Viktor Korchnoi, Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, Boris Spassky, Boris Vasilevich Spassky, Spassky
Definition of Chess master
1. Noun. An exceptionally skillful chess player, especially one who has won a major competition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chess Master
Literary usage of Chess master
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"They say that the brain of a chess master is more suited for playing chess than
for writing novels; that Zola was often unjust to the crowds whose ..."
2. American Chess Magazine (1898)
"At the Vienna tournament of 1882 the noted chess master, Adolph Schwartz, pointing
to Steinitz, said, "This little man has taught us all to play chess," and ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"So the week passed on, and the evening approached on which I had to meet my
mysterious chess master. My successes over the board had produced, no doubt, ..."
4. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"Examples of chess master-Play. New Barnet, 1883, etc. 16«. 7913. df. 12.
GOSSIP (GHD) Chess Player's Guide to 7913. de. 12. WALKER (G.) Chess Studios, pp. ..."
5. The British Chess Magazine (1886)
"His rank as a chess master in practical play is rather difficult to decide.
The contemporary estimate by Kossak, an intimate personal friend writing in the ..."
6. The Chess Bouquet: Or, The Book of the British Composers of Chess Problems by Frederick Richard Gittins (1897)
"The chess master has done something towards the popularising of the game by way
of producing attractive and scientifically-played games, but the chess ..."
7. Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and by Westminster Chess Club, London (1879)
"... and often received him as a guest, and was never happier than when engaged in
a friendly encounter with the great chess master ; we are pleased to find ..."
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