Monday’s wicked Mate in 3 problem was composed, according to some online sources, by a teenage Aleister Crowley, later billed as ‘the wickedest man in the world’, and published in the Albany Evening Journal on 11 February 1893.

(It was published under the initials EAC so some have made the assumption that Crowley was the composer, although a later problem in another source was described as his first 3-mover.)

Here’s the solution (copied from yacpdb.org (Yet Another Chess Problem DataBase), where I found the problem.

You can find out much more about the early chess career of Aleister Crowley, with a lot more problems and games, in my latest (and 100th) Minor Piece here.

Much more about Crowley to follow shortly!