1.   An eight year-old who can beat a chess master is remarkable.

2.   Studies of Olympic athletes, world-class musicians and chess masters show that their common trait is the ability to motivate themselves to pursue harsh training routines.

3.   But is a young player like Harriet prepared for the gamesmanship and all out psychological warfare that appears to accompany chess masters at the highest level.

4.   A similar memory training effect, Simon said, seems to occur with many chess masters.

5.   But the coach adjusted again, moving his men with the skill of a chess master.

6.   Chess masters can be insufferably arrogant.

7.   Deploying freight trains and motorcycles and fighter planes and bombers like a deranged chess master, Frankenheimer turns the milieu into his own private sandbox.

8.   He was a tennis chess master who saw moves on the court his opponents never dreamed existed.

9.   Inside, it later turned out, was a tiny chess master.

10.   Like a chess master, Ford is always thinking several moves ahead.