Napoleon Bonaparte vs. Madame de Ramusat: Another King walk

Hello everyone, today I am going to analyze/show you a game between Napoleon Bonaparte (Yep, that guy) and Madame de Ramusat, it lasted only 14 moves but somehow Ramusat's king literally got mated on d4, now without farther ado, let's get into the game:

"Madame de Rémusat (1780-1821) was a highly educated and very intelligent woman, attached to the court of Empress Josephine.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was born in Corsica in a modest Italian family, only to become a military leader and Emperor of France.

On the last winter day of 1804 Napoleon found time for his first traditional chess game against Countess de Remusat, the lady-in-waiting of his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, on the castle gift Malmaison. Two chess games against his wife's lady-in-waiting, which were played about a year apart, are handed down.

In the first game Napoleon gallantly leaves the suit to the court queen. In March 1804 Napoleon has his majestic goal in mind: the proclamation as French emperor, which he carries out two months later on his own authority. The conspiracy against him is uncovered. Cadoudal, General Moreau and the Duke of Enghien are imprisoned, sentenced or executed. The 'Code Civil', the first civil code, had passed parliament a few days ago - Napoleon could only look optimistically into the future and took time for a chess defense.

Not much can be expected from the game, neither strategically nor tactically. It ended after 13 moves with the victory of the trailing player. Weiss moves the first four moves relatively disoriented. At most, more experienced players should risk weakening the king's wing as they did in the game.

5. Nc3 is hardly playable, too defensive and a gift to the black moving general. More effective would be 5. Nf3. Using the king's knight to shield the king's wing and questioning the opponent's knight on e5.

Whether Napoleon may have found a first weakness in 5th Nc3 or not - in any case 6 ... Nfg4 probes the white king position. Due to the early exchange of the f-pawn on e5 there is a risky gap in the white king position. The vanguard, in the form of two black knights, guards, covering each other on e5 and g4. Ready to enter the white position. The repeated d-pawn move 7. d3-d4 makes it easier for Napoleon to successfully implement the simple strategy of this game.

The white pawn's move does not do what it initiates: it does not remove the cover of the black knight g4. Instead, Napoleon acts resolutely with 7... Qh4+ against the white king's position. By necessity the chess bid is fended off with 8.g3. After the retreat 8... Qf6 the mate threat on f2 remains in existence. From its alternatives of resistance the defensively moving queen chooses the worse variant: 9. Nh3. What speaks against moving the knight to the edge of the board is well known? The queen move d1-e2 would have defended against the matte threat for the time being only for the time being. Two black knights are well positioned, supported by the black queen, to consistently prepare cabal for the white-drawing queen of the court. As if commanders are also well versed in exploiting weaknesses in chess, Napoleon uses the decayed f3 square and whirls the white king's position through to the mate with a few moves.

The attacked black knight gives up chess at f3. The white king is left only to move e1-e2, if the opponent's move to f2 should be avoided. But e2 is not a safe protective field either. A new knight's check on d4 drives the white king away from there. In her already broken position the queen chooses the accelerating loss alternative - she moves 10th Kd3. Alternatively, moving 10th Kd2 would be a bit more complicated. But the white prospects are already bleak.

Determined, the black trio of queen and two knights pulls the white king into the final matzo, which leads over a double sacrifice to the end.

Black gives another chess game with his knight move to 10... e5 and with his fatal knight offer d4 lures the white king on knight hunt into the center of the board. The retreat of the white king 11. d2 would at most have complicated the danger of checkmating, but not eliminated it.

The lost white king, pushed into the center of the board, takes the black jumper. In spite of the danger of chess! Black renounces this option and lures the white majesty even further towards the black position. The black-field black knight offers 11th ...Bc5 chess. The white king cannot help but accept this sacrifice (12. Kxc5) and without any protection to further surrender to the rather simply knitted black matte calculus.

Two black queen moves remain to checkmate the white king! The black queen moves 12...Qf6-b6+. Your chess bid forces the white king to 13. Kd5, the only square that can still be moved. The black queen moves 13...Qd6+, covers the knight on e5 and checkmates the white king. - The king's flank should not open unprotected if you don't know what kind of threat potential is involved!"- @chrinoa (via chess.com) ~Thanks for reading! And I'll see you next time .