grand master
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Other sportsgrand masterˌgrand ˈmaster noun [countable] DSOa chess player of a very high standardExamples from the Corpusgrand master• Scargill dominated the hearings with his presence like some grand master of ceremonies.• But even with 50 years' worth of advances in movie technology, the young upstart can't beat the grand master.• He was now the grand master of ceremonies.• Perhaps the grand master of dysfunction was the late Francis Bacon, who made a considerable fortune out of it.