grandmaster
pronunciation
How to pronounce grandmaster in British English:
UK [ɡ'rændm'ɑ:stə]
How to pronounce grandmaster in American English:
US [ɡ'rændm'ɑstə]
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- Noun:
- a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge
Word Origin
- grandmaster (n.)
- as a chess title, 1927, from grand (adj.) in the sense "chief, principal" + master (n.). Earlier (as two words) a title in Freemasonry (1724) and in military orders of knighthood (1550s).
Example
- 1. You are not a born ceo or investor or chess grandmaster .
- 2. What about bobby fischer , who became a chess grandmaster at 16 ?
- 3. Last november henry kissinger compared barack obama to a chess grandmaster who had played his opening in six simultaneous matches , but hadn 't completed a single game .
- 4. The subjects who feature in cinematon include film director ken loach , actors roberto benigni and samuel fuller , chess grandmaster joel lautier and former monty python terry gilliam .
- 5. Even so , there are many current technologies , such as speech recognition , machine translation , and ibm 's human-beating chess grandmaster deep blue , that would have seemed like ai at the beginning .