King's Pawn Game:Napoleon Attack

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.