I had tried a fool's mate on a grand master.
And it was clearly not the work of the grand master that fascinated him so.
"But I hope to be a grand master of computer science."
He holds the record of being the youngest grand master at 15 years and two months.
These elections usually provided a succeeding grand master within three months.
The truth was the grand master had been caught off guard.
He had been the last hereditary grand master of the order.
"If the pope or the grand masters thought that day had come, I don't know," the judge added.
He served as a grand master of his lodge from 1873 to 1875.
It is hard to imagine him as a grand old master.