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| Nov-07-12 | | Conrad93: The most egotistical man in history? I can't think of anyone else. |
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| Nov-07-12 | | Everyone: Conrad93 comes into <Everyone's> mind. |
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| Nov-07-12 | | Conrad93: I'm not egotistical, I'm just rational and state my mind. |
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Nov-07-12
 | | HeMateMe: Was he really the 5th Beatle? |
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| Nov-07-12 | | Mac3: No the fifth Beatle was Billy Preston! |
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| Jun-07-13 | | Benzol: Is there any truth in the rumour that English musician Graham Bond was Aleister Crowley's son? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham... for more details |
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| Jun-07-13 | | schweigzwang: Ha ha, never expected a Crowley page here. I guess maybe I should expect a Crowley page everywhere. |
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| Jun-07-13 | | Cibator: Benzol: Bond himself apparently cherished the notion, but the secrecy surrounding adoptions in the UK prevents any definite conclusion being reached, one way or the other. According to his biographer, Harry Shapiro (in "The Mighty Shadow", pub. 1992), a court action aimed at establishing Bond's true paternity was within an ace of succeeding, but a crucial ruling from a judge at a late stage stopped it from going any further. A son fathered by Crowley was born in 1937 to one Patricia MacAlpine, but his later life is well documented, and he can't possibly have been Bond. My conclusion: Bond was simply delusional and obsessed. No connection with Crowley, except in his own deranged mind. |
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| Apr-06-15 | | zanzibar: Crowley doesn't look like the wickedest man in the world in the above photo. This photo brings that side out a little more I think: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... On the other hand, I always thought the wickerest man in the world was this guy: http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp... (It's bloody hard to get a good photo when you don't get top-billing) |
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Apr-07-15
 | | offramp: He was a brilliant man and he played far more games than are given here. I will try to find them and upload them. |
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| Apr-09-15 | | Karposian: <offramp> He was a good player. He preferred to use the knights. Didn't like bishops. Not at all. |
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| Aug-20-15 | | Dragi: fat sick drug addicted weirdo satanic scumbag |
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| Aug-20-15 | | thegoodanarchist: He looks a little bit like Alfred Hitchcock. |
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| Oct-12-15 | | Nosnibor: It should be pointed out that the game given here was part of a blindfold simul by Blackburne. |
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| Nov-08-15 | | Jboy: Wasn't he able to play 8 chess games at the same time with his back turned? |
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| Nov-09-15 | | Absentee: <SteinitzLives: Famous for being truly evil> If being a charlatan is evil. |
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Aug-28-17
 | | MissScarlett: <offramp: He was a brilliant man and he played far more games than are given here. I will try to find them and upload them.> Good luck with that. I could only find (and submit) two - the Varsity game with Spencer-Churchill (http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...), and one with 'the wickedest man in Washington', Norman Tweed Whitaker. |
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| Aug-28-17 | | Marmot PFL: < He was a brilliant man and he played far more games than are given here. I will try to find them and upload them.> Crowley was very serious about chess in his student days but gave it up after traveling to a major chess tournament and seeing how poor and shabby most of the leading players looked. |
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Aug-28-17
| | MissScarlett: <Crowley was very serious about chess in his student days but gave it up after traveling to a major chess tournament and seeing how poor and shabby most of the leading players looked.> Is that from his own mouth/pen? I surmise healthy amounts of poetic licence should be allowed for. |
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| Aug-28-17 | | Marmot PFL: Used to have his autobiography (Confessions) where he mentions chess frequently. His ambition as a student was to become champion of England but he gave up serious chess after the incident I mentioned. This was in the 1890s at one of the major chess congresses. |
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| Aug-28-17 | | Marmot PFL: Some Crowley quotes on chess--https://hermetic.com/crowley/other/... |
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| Aug-28-17 | | ChessHigherCat: < zanzibar: Crowley doesn't look like the wickedest man in the world in the above photo. This photo brings that side out a little more I think: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... No way, the wickedest man in the world is this guy, although he had to get rewicked every night before the show: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-... |
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| Aug-28-17 | | ughaibu: Wickedest man in the world: https://img.barks.jp/img/article/10... |
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Sep-23-18
 | | mifralu: Note:
< The above photo is almost universally given as Crowley (L) vs. Eduardo M. Pellen (R), Portuguese engineer from Lisbon whom Crowley visited in Sept. 1930 and who would, in 1936, be elected president of the Portuguese Chess Federation. However this is not the case. >
Marco Passi uncovered that this photo was taken in the Gambit Chess Rooms in London in February of 1930 and Crowley's opponent is Robert A. Starr, a high raking member of the Ordo Temli Orientis which Crowley led from 1923-47. An original photographer's print was discovered in the Order's archives bearing this information in Starr's handwriting. https://www.chess.com/article/view/... |
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Sep-23-18
| | MissScarlett: <<I edited a chess column in the Eastbourne Gazette and made myself a host of enemies by criticizing the team. I wanted to arise enthusiasm, to insist on study and practice and to make Eastbourne the strongest town in England. The result fell short of breaking up the club, but not very far.> Crowley's chess column in the "Eastbourne Gazette," entitled "Chess Notes" and written under the pseudonym Ta Dhuibh, followed the activities of the local chess group he had founded.> https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
Harding's <British Chess Literature to 1914> informs that these columns are online: http://www.100thmonkeypress.com/bib... It's not clear if every game printed by Crowley involves him, but the suspicion must be great. Given the opportunity, with White, he favours the King's Gambit, and with Black, the Sicilian Defence. |
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