The Games of Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Games of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769. In 1799, he staged a coup d'etat and crowned himself as Emperor of France. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, he turned the armies of the French Empire against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories.
Napoleon fostered a deep love for chess throughout his life, but lacked the time and devotion to become a player of the first rank. Only four recorded games attributed to Napoleon have survived, and some chess historians cast doubts over the authenticity of some or all of these games.

His first recorded game was played against Madame De Remusat, a French woman of letters, in Paris, France in 1802. 

His second recorded game was played against Madame De Remusat at Chateau de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison France on March 20, 1804. 

His third recorded game was played against The Turk (Automaton) at the Schoenbrunn Palace Exhibition in Vienna, Austria in 1809. The opening that he played in this game came to be known as the Napoleon Opening. I have already written a blog post about this at: https://www.chess.com/blog/ThummimS/the-napoleon-opening

If you want to, you can check it out! 

His fourth recorded game was played against a French general, Henri Gatien Bertrand, in 1820 while he was in exile on St. Helena.