Grandmaster 大师
grandmaster[ noun ]
a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge
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- The United States, which has won the bronze medals in the last three Olympiads, defeated Sweden 2.5-1.5 when Grandmaster Sergei Kudrin defeated Dragulob Damjanovic.
- In the fourth quarterfinal, Dutch Grandmaster Jan Timman will face off against Lajos Portisch of Hungary beginning Wednesday.
- Soviet Grandmaster Artur Yusupov defeated Kevin Spraggett of Canada in the third game of their World Chess Championship Candidates quarterfinal Tuesday to tie the score at 1.5 points each.
- The first Soviet defeat in the men's championship came when Swedish International Master Thomas Ernst gained an impressive victory over Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest.
- Organizers said the fifth round of the other semifinal between Jan Timman of the Netherlands and British Grandmaster Jon Speelman would be played as scheduled Sunday night.
- FIVE minutes before Nigel Short's decisive final game of his match against the former world champion Anatoly Karpov, I was sitting with him and his second, the Czech-born Grandmaster Lubosh Kavalek.
- British Grandmaster Jonathan Speelman is already through to the semifinal stage of the Candidates.
- In August, Romania's top player, Grandmaster Mihai Suba, was granted political asylum in London during a competition.