The chess games of Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley (left) playing Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon, 1930.

Number of games in database: 4
Years covered: 1894 to 1916
Overall record: +1 -2 =1 (37.5%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ALEISTER CROWLEY
(born Oct-12-1875, died Dec-01-1947, 72 years old) United Kingdom
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Aleister Crowley was born Edward Alexander Crowley in Warwickshire, England. He was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema.
In 1895 Crowley, having then adopted the new name of Aleister, began a three year course at Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the university's chess club, where he beat the president in his first year (he claims) and practised two hours a day towards becoming a champion. Preoccupied with occultism, he eventually gave this idea up.
Crowley gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as "The Great Beast" and "the wickedest man in the world." Nevertheless, Crowley has remained an influential figure and is widely thought of as the most influential occultist of all time.
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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. Blackburne vs A Crowley	½-½	28	1894	Simul, 7b	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
2. H Robbins vs A Crowley	0-1	37	1896	24th Oxford - Cambridge Varsity m	C22 Center Game
3. E Spencer-Churchill vs A Crowley	1-0	32	1897	25th Oxford - Cambridge Varsity m	C42 Petrov Defense
4. A Crowley vs N Whitaker	0-1	26	1916	Casual game	C40 King's Knight Opening

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Aug-02-11		Benzol: Crowley at one time owned Boleskine House which is on the shores of Loch Ness. It was later owned by Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin fame. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesk... for more info. Don't know who owns it now though.

Aug-02-11		twinlark: Nowadays it's the likes of philosopher and utilitarian ethicist Peter Singer that have been given the label of the most dangerous man alive.

Aug-02-11		Stonehenge: Is there also a most dangerous dead man?

Aug-02-11		HeMateMe: I wonder if Jimmy Page still has his collection of Crowley momorabilia and other black magic artifacts? He was a collector. Mr. Crowley: (utube disabled comment page for this video. Thats probably a bad reflection on Ozzy fans.) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM9n...> Chipmunks ride the Crazy Train! <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxK7...>

Aug-02-11		twinlark: <Stonehenge> heh Singer's purported danger is to do with his ideas. So my guess is the most dangerous dead men talking are probably Karl Marx or Milton Friedman, depending upon the politics of the beholder.

Aug-02-11		micartouse: I suspect this guy is the real inventor of Enochian chess.

Feb-04-12		wordfunph: according to Gary Lane, Aleister Crowley even appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sergeant Pepper.

Feb-04-12		Nemesistic: <Wordfunph> He did, he's on the back row, second from the left if you remember the Albums cover..

Feb-04-12		theagenbiteofinwit: No way, when did Crowley get his own page!?! IMHO AC was a very very terrible fiction writer who compensated for it by being a very very savvy PR man. I could see why he and W.B. Yeats (who also took British hocus-pocus clubs seriously) never got along. One was the last great rhyming poet, the other was Crowley.

Feb-04-12		Cibator: <micartouse: I suspect this guy is the real inventor of Enochian chess.> Don't think so. That game was always more associated with AC's fellow-occultist MacGregor Mathers, with whom he had a monumental bust-up.

Feb-04-12		SteinitzLives: Famous for being truly evil, a reality celebrity, before invention by modern culture. Horrifying and revolting, but many cannot turn away, I can. After all, he was just another perversion-addict, masking it in pseduo-intellectual-occultism, but a dirty old man nevertheless. Pathetic Ozzy Osbourne sang about him, they are both at the same level of talent and depth.

Oct-12-12		LoveThatJoker: Aleister Crowley, today you are remembered! LTJ

Oct-12-12		twinlark: Crowley's been reincarnated in a steampunk-sf series called the <Demi-Monde>, which is set in a virtual world created with a quantum computer by the Pentagon for war training purposes. In this place, he's one of a cast of major historical psychopaths like Heydrich, Beria, Torquemada, Robespierre, Shaka Zulu, Matthew Hopkins, Archie Clement and others. Great read!

Nov-07-12		Conrad93: This guy considered himself the next Capablanca, if not better.

Nov-07-12		Conrad93: The most egotistical man in history? I can't think of anyone else.

Nov-07-12		Everyone: Conrad93 comes into <Everyone's> mind.

Nov-07-12		Conrad93: I'm not egotistical, I'm just rational and state my mind.

Nov-07-12		HeMateMe: Was he really the 5th Beatle?

Nov-07-12		Mac3: No the fifth Beatle was Billy Preston!

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

Jun-07-13		schweigzwang: Ha ha, never expected a Crowley page here. I guess maybe I should expect a Crowley page everywhere.

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.

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)

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.

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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Aleister Crowley (left) playing Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon, 1930.