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Aleister Crowley the chessplayer
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Not a bad game but not a win for Crowley. Either he played Blackburne more than once, or more likely, he was bragging.
Crowley an early pioneer of the Taimanov Sicilian.
Haha
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satanist...I won't even view the game.
Silman had an article about him on here sometime back
I can't find it though so maybe not
fewlio wrote:
satanist...I won't even view the game.
Then don't view it. Announcing that you won't view it is not in keeping with your presumably Christian values.
Apparently the notorious occultist was also a very good chessplayer.
Here is his description of playing JH Blackburne.
"My one serious worldly ambition had been to become the champion of the world at chess. I had snatched a game from Blackburne in simultaneous play some years before. I was being beaten in the Sicilian defence. The only chance was the sacrifice of a rook. I remember the grand old master coming round to my board and cocking his alcoholized eye cunningly at me. "Hullo," said he, "Morphy come to town again!" I am not coxcomb enough to think that he could not have won the game, even after my brilliancy. I believe that his colossal generosity let me win to encourage a promising youngster."
http://hastingschess.proboards.com/thread/15/aleister-crowley