Chess player of the highest class

Usage examples of grandmaster.

The little coelacanth symbol appeared over his name, meaning Grandmaster.

Mistress Belladonna, Grandmaster of the Order of Strychnos, was a tall, elegant woman whose skin was the earthy red hue of the sand on the Island of Patience.

The Grandmaster of the Strychnos guild casually sipped something from an ornate, green goblet that appeared to have been grown rather than cast in metal or blown from glass.

Grandmaster that Timothy had never seen before, and suddenly the suspicions he had carried back with him from the Strychnos citadel seemed foolish.

And although Chess was traditionally more well-liked by men, four generations of planetary supreme grandmasters had come from the small, intellectual lineage of Terrille clones.

I wouldn't call it an unease, Niana, because I always feel that in disowning Uppermaster — I mean Grandmaster — Bowdly-Smart, I would be disowning part of myself.

Sticking out his bottom lip like a small boy as he swirled more sugar into his tea, Grandmaster Harrat ruefully admitted that he, as a senior member of the Metallurgical Branch of the Great Guild of Savants, was on something known as the General Board, which apparently made the decisions that shaped the destiny of Clawtson & Mawdingly, although, personally speaking, it was a part of his job that he hated.

Studying Grandmaster Harrat again between the silver churches of the condiments, I realised that I had seen him before.

Grandmaster Harrat led me to a gated lift, and pulled a lever that sent the earth clacking up.

Grandmaster Harrat wordlessly gestured the way that we should go as we stooped along a wet brick maze past the intermittent light of mesh-hooded lanterns.

The triple massive horizontal columns of the aether engines pounded before me on their steel and concrete beds, and Grandmaster Harrat led me beside their flashing pistons to their link with the Bracebridge earth, a great iron plug the size of a house bolted to the rockface which was called the fetter.

Probably noticing how pale I had become, Grandmaster Harrat steered me back along the almost quiet-seeming tunnels, and we waited at the lift gate as the pulley chains began to turn.

At the end of it all, Grandmaster Harrat would touch two ends of metal.

But Grandmaster Harrat had visions of houses, streets, towns, cities, lit by this feeble yellow glow.

Muttering something I couldn't catch, Grandmaster Harrat broke open one of the aether vials and squeezed the bulb of a pipette until a glowing line ascended the tube.