Sligo Chess Tournament continues to go from strength to strength, with big plans in place to grow the annual event even more in 2026. The 2025 Sligo Chess Tournament - the fourth year - takes place at ...

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What makes Carlsen arguably the greatest chess player of all time is his ruthless ability to dominate any time constraint, and in New York on New Year’s Eve, things were no different.

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and it is this unpredictability that throws the the set strategies for the best of players out of the window and makes it interesting. In partnership with German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner, ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...