Napoleon Bonaparte INVENTED A Chess Opening!

[@ottomeister8]

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[@Justpassingby204]

Thanks for the big, red arrow so I know who Napoleon is

[@aqiltijani4646]

yw

[@Justpassingby204]

@@aqiltijani4646 you make the thumbnail?

[@DavidNietoRamos]

Made my day

[@deerlow1851]

I spent hours looking before I saw the red arrow and then it all made sense.

[@spore6050]

@@user-fg6zp6kw3eshit i thought he was the pawn

[@quinnthehobbit6680]

It’s very interesting that Napoleon’s strategy was so sacrificial. Most chess players and strategists are very protective of their resources, but it seems as though Napoleon was always looking for how to best throw away his pieces. He held strategic positions to be more valuable than his pieces, and once those pieces served their purpose they were used one final time. Although this worked fine in chess, I think this mindset is what failed him in the end.

[@DailyWorldWideNews945]

Its very debatable that this game was actually played by napoleon. Even though he played chess sometimes, he knew very little about it. Histrorians assume that this game was not played like this and polished for propaganda, with this sacrifice presenting him as a tactical genius (which he was but as i said he wasnt very good at chess).

[@xyihhz4262]

well holy shit his army got wiped out but but hefricking won

[@asorbli]

His mindset worked brilliantly if it werent for the Russian winter, due to France immense ressources

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@asorbli I think the reason why Napoleon lost was lack of resources and he loses more soldiers than what he can sacrifice. Training veteran soldiers takes time and that is what exactly Napoleon doesn't have.

[@cristiano7541]

Maybe not that, but some cold did

[@valentinodbd]

Shoutout to people who went back in time and watched this game and recorded it.

[@DailyWorldWideNews945]

Its very debatable that this game was actually played by napoleon. Even though he played chess sometimes, he knew very little about it. Histrorians assume that this game was not played like this and polished for propaganda, with this sacrifice presenting him as a tactical genius (which he was but as i said he wasnt very good at chess).

[@sashimi879]

@@DailyWorldWideNews945 source?

[@DailyWorldWideNews945]

@@sashimi879 I actually saw the same game in an other channel with 400 k subs and they said it. Also makes lots more sense. If you just look at the moves you can see that he had nearly no theory knowledge. His sacrifice also would have been pointless if his opponent had chosen the right moves. All of that are signs of a chess beginner.

[@DailyWorldWideNews945]

@@sashimi879 Also i found a quora post where one of the answers where: From memory. The published games from him are certainly false . Only one or two are genuine.General Bertrand , his old friend, wrote in his memoirs that Napoleon played incredibly badly . Once , he played a game with a general. The general said to Napoleon , before the game;: Show me one of my pieces , I will mate you with this one . And the general won the game as he announced.General Bertrand wrote that he was bad at this game because he always wanted to reproduce battlefield tactics.

[@archsteel7]

Of Napoleons many faults, getting salty and killing people who beat him at chess was not one of them. If he was, Marshal Ney would not have survived.

[@reginaldstoic]

Yeah, same with Bernadotte. They had some serious beef.

[@archsteel7]

@@reginaldstoic That said, while it probably wouldn’t over a chess game, Napoleon did have a nasty habit of hamstringing the careers of people he personally didn’t like. He could be remarkably petty, but he wasn’t some insecure warlord killing anyone who hurt his ego.

[@troll5161]

If he played against Marshal Davout, that would be a great battle

[@wowyourereallyreadingthis]

Ok who would win in a Marshalls+Napoleon Chess tournament?

[@archsteel7]

@@wowyourereallyreadingthis Depends on the Marshal. Napoleon was about half as good of a strategist as he said he was, which was really impressive because his ego was massive. He also didn’t uniformly promote marshals based on merit. Some of them were actually excellent tacticians who worked their way up the ranks because they deserved to be at the top. And some of them were there because Napoleon liked them. It was still much more of a meritocracy than under the Bourbon’s, but there was still a fair bit of nepotism.

[@loris.rodriguez]

what irritates me is to see people who do not know the strategy of the emperor, show him as a strategist who sacrificed his soldiers without stopping. while in reality it was quite the opposite, his greatest victory was achieved in numerical inferiority and was mainly based on the analysis of the forces and the environment of the battlefield

[@caledonhockley883]

Exactly. It irritates me too. Also the fact he said you’d be guillotined for beating him

[@ravenblood1954]

From a tactical level he didn’t use his men as fodder, but his chess tactics do demonstrate the personality trait that he had which led to his ultimate downfall. He was too willing to continue on a costly action so long as he felt that the that the strategic outcome would lead to victory. To use an analogy, he kept pressing towards Moscow despite heavy losses thinking Moscow was checkmate. When it turns out it wasn’t, he realized he had no pieces left to play with because he sacrificed them all to to capture a position which wasn’t going to end the game, and all that he had left only gave him enough to lose slowly.

[@Gumper30]

Napoleon's strategies are very interesting to me because it almost seems like he was a very pragmatic and calculating person who came to the conclusion that if he harnessed his charasima properly then it would let him use prestige and renown as a battlefield/logistics tactic in its own right. I don't think he really cared when he was throwing his men's lives away on a gamble he knew was likely to fail or by not sending others to their aide (although the same is probably true for most other 'great generals'), but he knew the propaganda power that an occasional "valiant defeat" or "last stand" could have, and he exploited that wherever he could in order to keep his limited manpower where he needed it most for as long as possible

[@primary2630]

Almost like they dont know what theyre talking about and think chess actually has anything to do with real war

[@ravenblood1954]

@@primary2630 Not in the literal sense. In the same way that reading doesn’t make you a good writer, but the thought processes are similar. Napoleon’s chess more describes his personality as a general more than his tactics, if that makes any sense

[@DarthFhenix55]

4:38 Yeah, because he was in an island in the middle of nowhere and was about to dying.

[@cocotheclown10]

I would beat Napoleon and become the new emperor 🤴

[@cameroncammell8375]

I as Pope somebody 1st proclaim you Emperor of the french

[@troll5161]

@@cameroncammell8375 I didn't know Pope Water the First existed

[@cameroncammell8375]

@@troll5161 no I'm pope somebody

[@inkoin7024]

Englishman, please stop saying your neck would be on the line if you were to win against Napoleon. People have played Napoleon and won and nothing happened to them.

[@smantheman2312]

curious how they were never heard from again...

[@fliegendeluftwaffeli835]

Yeah.

[@Karlvonstinky]

Bro the game was played in 1820 Napoleon already got defeated and sent to St. Helena. Napoleon literally had no power to guillotine anyone...

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

Anglos mad

[@Jester343]

@@Karlvonstinky The 2000 British soldiers still worrying he could do it:

[@Simon-yv4jm]

4:42 first of all, Napoleon was not a leader in 1820, and secondly, even if he was, he literally was the guy that stopped unnecessary executions after the revolution, so this is funny because of how awfully inaccurate this is good job with these jokes

[@tarikvehab8938]

apparently Lenin was very good at chess, could you do a video on him

[@ComplexityUnleashed]

i mean he had the IQ (At least 140), and it is the game i would expect him to play.

[@Randomboi863]

He probably valued every piece the same

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

​@@Randomboi863 bro lol

[@quixotes4478]

@@Randomboi863 what part of each according to their ability to each according to their need do you not understand?

[@GoldMoonGuy]

@@Randomboi863 "Everyone is a pawn." - Vladimir Lenin

[@iron4517]

napoleon wasnt the kind of man to kill someone just because he lost a game of chess

[@onnoquinten2944]

next he will show us a game between thanos and jesus

[@deadass_edwin.2002]

I'd pay money to see Thanos and Jesus playing chess while talking about their ideologies and philosophies in a similar manner to Prof X and Magneto.

[@dionhall6800]

He learned his history from McDonalds

[@jelstone20]

same place you got your humour recognition.

[@dionhall6800]

@@jelstone20 same place you were conceived.

[@jelstone20]

@Dion Hall you really showed me with that comment, congratulations 😆

[@dionhall6800]

@@jelstone20 your only proving my point with that reply.

[@jelstone20]

@@dionhall6800 not really, but if it makes you happy to believe it I'm good with it brother.

[@LaneSight]

By 1820 Napoleon was a discheveled man on exile in the middle of the Atlantic, not much fear of him

[@aTf2SoldierMain]

Ah yea, because in 1820, 5 years after Napoleon lost at Waterloo and was exiled to Saint Helena, he would definitely execute you for beating him at chess.

[@itsalmostfun8567]

who tought the worlds smartest strategist in the 1800 made an opening

[@williethomas5116]

"Napoleon was a big believer in sacrificing pawns." The Duke of Wellington was very good at getting those pawns to betray Napoleon.

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

It weirds me out a bit how many historical figures were good at chess. I actually am very skeptical about these games... They are fun either way.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

Not that weird, there weren't that many sources of entertainment at the time, so these guys spent a lot more time on chess than most people today.

[@kidadrip6953]

I didnt notice napoleon on thumbnail so that big red arrow helps so much! Thanks!

[@ottomeister8]

It does?

[@markjulianvillamarin7923]

And then he sacrifices THE ROOOOOOK

[@caleblebaron1179]

4:40 napoleon had no power in 1820.

[@staroc2258]

Bruh Napoléon wasn't stalin

[@plugshirt1762]

According to the English he might as well be. Two hundred year propaganda still in action lol

[@veretxnerd983]

Yo 2:19 I did the exact same tactic a few games ago and got this in my recommended

[@ba2138]

Crazy bro, this move is so rare

[@nekopop8159]

On Qh4, black could just use the pawn to block and threaten the queen.

[@zzdanibombzz6774]

how do we know games of napoleon

[@bongcloudmaster5462]

They were documented

[@herobrinegreek9493]

THE ROOOOK

[@santhaprabhu4538]

I have played with this opening Kings pawn opening : Napoleon attack And i won every time i used it

[@anglo-deutsche-egyptian7831]

Wait a minute, at 5:00 why didn't he just move the second Bishop to G5 then he would have checkmated the king with no escape?????!!

[@NewpLiet]

bishop and knight can block

[@bhushannikode5086]

He literally sacrifice everything for winning

[@datiwai]

How u know napoleon games?

[@gaberobison680]

This isn't an opening as it relies on the opponent blundering on move 3

[@Ducky_Lord]

y is rick ashley advertising napolean playing chess?

[@ImaNPCman]

I would rate that game at about a 650.

[@schmeetsonbeetson7168]

How did peole even record his random chess game??

[@gwennblei]

There are many many games in history that were written down to be studied later. In some tournaments it was mandatory to write down moves. Also historically, many games were played by mail. You'd send a letter to the other person and add your move inside the letter, these games could last many months. And others, like this one, where just recorded cause the players were famous

[@BilberryBogwonAGD]

The usual method was just a slip of paper with the moves written down

[@Ethan-mz4kv]

It was played in 1820, a year before his death in St. Helena. Napoleon was watched over by hundreds of British Guards and had his own members of his entourage visit him such as General Bertrand in this instance. During his captivity anything he did was recorded and watched.

[@maxcarren112]

Napoleon was always the type of general to trade a bigger army for a faster army. Makes sense why he would prefer to play a game with a lot of pawns sacrificed, they get in the way.

[@Teakbumblbee]

Moment of silence who thought this was real

[@pedrojuan8050]

Napoleon walked so Mikhail Tal could run.

[@p3ace_W4s_n3vEr_4n_0pTIoN]

Sry chief, ur head wouldn't be off if you were to beat Napoleon in 1820 because he was exiled and dethroned

[@andreasm5770]

What a creative comments section

[@joaquinbartsch4325]

love your content, very funny comentating, and good analysis con the games, and where did you get those games from napoleon, are they written on paper??? and the neck bit, i love it

[@Creativechessyoda]

Where's Waldo?

[@brandonjeffries3638]

All that was a opening....?

[@vidhroh1538]

2:09 Whh not queen H5 instead of this pawn move?? Could have won a bishop🤦🤦

[@abdallaking2842]

queen e2

[@laurensgorter]

Black plays queen E7 protecting both the checkmate and the green tiled bishop of black

[@bingshologins3780]

Unexpected

[@af2547]

Wait… this is my opening.

[@taylorbeckett9686]

When I first started chess I did those exact same first 2-3 moves as well

[@niallbuckley22]

Deadly Game ... shame about the street players in Tirana NY and everywhere else

[@huzaifa8665]

Is that an opening?

[@evilotis01]

and everything was going great until move 8, at which point Napoleon decided to invade Russia

[@thethorbynator2197]

Is OttoMeister German?

[@note5068]

Napolean is alpha zero huh

[@thefingerling167]

wtf is wrong with u guys in the comments its a goddamn youtube video you dont need to fact check it

[@plugshirt1762]

Then don’t say false facts in the video lol it’s not that complex

[@beetoq2625]

Napoleon could have been a great general, he was not a great chess player

[@plugshirt1762]

Yeah he was a great general but but chess has evolved so much over the years that games back the aren’t comparable to ones now

[@misterkoneko2389]

Poggers 🔥

[@normalweirdo4175]

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

[@quixotes4478]

take your normal pills

[@skyduster1190]

damn high level chess

[@timmiecalais4824]

How to get views

[@2amjan]

Thanks for the big, red arrow so I know who Napoleon is

[@Justpassingby204]

This comment seems familiar

[@2amjan]

@@Justpassingby204 rosentreter gambit

[@MesserTAMU]

Thanks for the big red arrow so I know who Napoleon is.

[@gagnoli447]

@@MesserTAMU what if the Napoleon is the friends that we made along the way?

[@reginaldstoic]

The Bonapart has found it's new host.

[@GeorgeNasseem]

Thanks for the big, red arrow so I know who Napoleon is

[@bonkscout3108]

Thanks for the big, red arrow so I know who Napoleon is