Crossword clues for grandmaster
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of Grandmaster English) 2 A master in a field, whose skills or accomplishments exceed those of other masters.
WordNet
n. a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge
Wikipedia
The title Grandmaster is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain.
Once achieved, the title is held for life. In chess literature it is usually abbreviated to GM. (Other titles are also often abbreviated: FM for FIDE Master, IM for International Master, and CM for Candidate Master.) The abbreviation IGM for International Grandmaster is also sometimes used, particularly in older literature.
Grandmaster, International Master, and FIDE Master are open to both men and women. Beginning with Nona Gaprindashvili in 1978 and Susan Polgar in 1991, a number of women have earned the GM title. Since about 2000, most of the top 10 women have held the GM title.
A separate gender-segregated title, Woman Grandmaster (WGM), is also available. It is awarded to women who attain a level of skill between that of a FIDE Master and an International Master.
FIDE awards separate Grandmaster titles to composers and solvers of chess problems (see List of grandmasters for chess composition). The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) awards the title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (ICCGM).
Grandmaster or Grand Master may refer to:
The Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in The Avengers #69.
The Grandmaster is one of the ageless Elders of the Universe and has mastered most civilizations' games of skill and chance. The character will be portrayed by Jeff Goldblum in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: Ragnarok.
Grandmaster (or Grand Master) and Master are titles used to describe or address some senior or experienced martial artists. Typically these titles are honorific in nature, meaning that they do not confer rank, but rather distinguish the individual as very highly revered in their school, system, or style.
Grandmaster, in comics, may refer to:
- Grandmaster (DC Comics), fictional character, a type of Manhunter agent, in the DC Comics universe. First appeared in 1987
- Grandmaster (Marvel Comics), fictional character, one of the "elders of the universe" in the Marvel Comics universe. First appeared in 1969
- Grand Master Robo, supervillain in the Indian Raj Comics universe
Grandmaster is a 2012 Indian thriller film written and directed by B. Unnikrishnan and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur. Mohanlal stars as Chandrasekhar, an IPS officer who begins investigating a series of murders after receiving an anonymous note. The plot of the film is partly inspired from the Agatha Christie novel The A.B.C. Murders. The supporting cast includes Narain, Priyamani, Anoop Menon, Babu Antony and Jagathy Sreekumar.
The film, produced by UTV Motion Pictures, was released on 3 May 2012 and received positive reviews from critics. The film was released through Netflix online video streaming by UTV in the U.S. and Canada. This is the first among new Malayalam films available for internet video streaming in the U.S. and Canada through Netflix.
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.