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The “Reverse Napoleon Attack”, or as I’ve previously called it, the “Napoleon-ish Queen” (https://adventuresofachessnoob.com/2022/10/22/blunder-dont-play-the-napoleon-ish-queen/) is a pretty bad opening against the Vienna Game (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3. Qf6). In fact, the mid-opening, Stockfish gave an advantage to White in the [+4] range!

My opponent saw the error of their ways and retreated their “Napleon-ish Queen” back to d8 on move 4 and we had a game with some interesting positions! Well, at least they were for me as there were some strong winning lines, some of which I didn’t really plan for!

On move 12 (12. Qa4), I took advantage of Black’s week queen-side defences from a prior trading of my bishop for a knight. For trading my queen, I took from my opponent two pawns, a rook, their queen, and their right to castle!

At the end of that exchange, the evaluation is almost at [+10] and I’m completely winning. My opponent was a great sport and continued playing and made a great counterattack, seemingly sacrificing their knight to win a pawn and rook. In the game, I thought I had made a mistake but incredibly, when I looked carefully, their bishop now in the corner on a1 was actually trapped! Tragic for Black, as this was entirely serendipitous as I didn’t plan this whatsoever.

Still, they played on despite it being three pieces vs one, but on move 33, I managed to fork their king and remaining rook, and Black opted to resign. Great game!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/60658764725

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.10.28"]
[Round "-"]
[White "vitualis"]
[Black "Hilderson"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Timezone "UTC"]
[ECO "C25"]
[ECOUrl "https://www.chess.com/openings/Vienna-Game"]
[UTCDate "2022.10.28"]
[UTCTime "01:17:14"]
[WhiteElo "1371"]
[BlackElo "1305"]
[TimeControl "1800"]
[Termination "vitualis won by resignation"]
[StartTime "01:17:14"]
[EndDate "2022.10.28"]
[EndTime "01:39:19"]
[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/live/60658764725"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 {Vienna Game} 2... Qf6 {The \"Reverse Napoleon Attack\" queen, which is a mistake [+1.49]} 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nd5 Qd8 5. d4 Nf6 6. dxe5 Nxe4 7. Qd4 Bf5 8. Bd3 Nc6 9. Bb5 {A blunder [0.00], but only if Black finds the obscure Qd7} 9... a6 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. Qa4 {[%c_arrow
a4c6;keyPressed;none;from;a4;opacity;0.8;to;c6;persistent;false,c6e8;keyPressed;none;from;c6;opacity;0.8;to;e8;persistent;false,a4e4;keyPressed;none;from;a4;opacity;0.8;to;e4;persistent;false][%c_highlight
e4;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;e4;persistent;false,c6;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;c6;persistent;false]
A mistake [-0.13], but again, only if Black finds the obscure Qd7} 11... Be7 12. Qxc6+ Bd7 13. Nxc7+ Kf8 14. Qxa8 d5 15. Qxd8+ Bxd8 16. Nxd5 Be6 17. Ne3 Ba5+ 18. c3 Nxc3 19. bxc3 Bxc3+ 20. Bd2 Bxa1 21. O-O {Surprisingly, the bishop on a1 is trapped [+7.66]} 21... f5 22. Rxa1 Kf7 23. Ng5+ Ke7 24. Nxe6 Kxe6 25. f4 Rd8 26. Ba5 Rd3 27. Kf2 Rd4 28. g3 h6 29. Rd1 Ra4 30. Rd6+ Ke7 31. Rxa6 Rxa2+ 32. Kg1 Ra3 $2 {A mistake as Black loses their rook [+M8]} 33. Bb4+ {[%c_effect
g1;square;g1;type;Winner,e7;square;e7;type;ResignBlack][%c_arrow
b4e7;keyPressed;none;from;b4;opacity;0.8;to;e7;persistent;false,b4a3;keyPressed;none;from;b4;opacity;0.8;to;a3;persistent;false][%c_highlight
e7;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;e7;persistent;false,a3;keyPressed;none;opacity;0.8;square;a3;persistent;false]}
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