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King's Pawn Game:Napoleon Attack

1. e4 e5 2. Qf3

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Black to move

Legal moves
29
Games in the next 4 moves
1,145,924
Different positions among them
358,097
Named lines from here
0

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Named after Napoleon Bonaparte. Another early queen move aimed at f7; it develops quickly but blocks the knight’s best square.

It is reached after 3 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Qf3. It is a line of the King's Pawn Game.

Black is to move and has 29 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 1,145,924 different games. Those games reach 358,097 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3.2 on average.

No later position on this line has a name of its own in the Lichess opening list: the names end here.

No other order of these moves reaches this position: each move depends on the one before.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the King's Pawn Game: Napoleon Attack
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 1,145,924 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Qf3King's Pawn Game: Napoleon Attack

Related openings

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