chess master

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   a chess player of great skill

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Questions about chess master

What does chess master mean?

chess master means "a chess player of great skill".

Is chess master a common word?

chess master is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.