Napoleon Attack

The Napoleon Opening is an irregular chess opening starting with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Qf3 As with the similar Wayward Queen Attack, White hopes for the Scholar's Mate, but Black can easily avoid the trap.Show more

The Napoleon Opening is named after the French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who had a deep love of chess but was said to be a mediocre player.The name came into use after mid-nineteenth century publications reported that he played this opening in an 1809 game which he lost to The Turk, a chess automaton operated at the time by Johann Allgaier.