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 

• CHESS MASTER (noun)

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))