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CHESS MASTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chess master mean?
• CHESS MASTER (noun)
The noun CHESS MASTER has 1 sense:
1. a chess player of great skill
Familiarity information: CHESS MASTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chess player of great skill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("chess master" is a kind of...):
chess player (someone who plays the game of chess)
Instance hyponyms:
Bobby Fischer; Fischer; Robert James Fischer (United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943))
Anatoli Karpov; Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov; Karpov (Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951))
Gary Kasparov; Gary Weinstein; Kasparov (Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963))
Korchnoi; Viktor Korchnoi; Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Russian chess master (born in 1931))
Boris Spassky; Boris Vasilevich Spassky; Spassky (Russian chess master who moved to Paris; world champion from 1969 to 1972 (born in 1937))
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