Chess master

A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who themselves typically can nearly always prevail against the level of play generally possessed by the average player in the general population. Among chess players, the term is often abbreviated to master, the meaning being clear from context. From the dawn of recorded chess, to the establishment of the first chess organizations, the term master was simply ...

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Master is a term that indicates a consummate level of skill, proficiency, superiority or power (mastery). The female equivalent (in limited use in modern times) is mistress. The term has a number of uses: Master (form of address). Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland. A term once used to describe the male head of a household or a male property owner in some contexts. Master's degree, a graduate degree in a sp ...

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