For all of you that didn't know, Napleon Bonaparte was an avid chessplayer. However, sadly only three games are left that we know (think) are his. Here is one game when the Emperor of France demolishes his opponents (in chess!).

Wow, I had heard he was a chessplayer, but I didn't know he was good.

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 That was before you saw his second game ...

wow, he saw ahead.

Do you have the second game?

Here's the second game,

So what do you think about Napoleon I- what level of play do you think he had?

The automaton isn't the Russian czar Alexander I or the duke of Wellington?

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 http://www.chesscorner.com/games/fascinating/int11.htm

For those too lazy to click on the link (like me), the automaton was a box that played chess. It was not a robot- someone inside did the moves. It was also called The Turk.

Hope that answered your question.

‘Napoleon was a persistent but a very weak player. Three games purporting to be played by him are in existence. One of these (a Scotch Game) said to have been played in St Helena between Napoleon and Bertrand, and first printed in Capt. Kennedy’s Reminiscences in the Life of Aug. Fitzsnob (Waifs and Strays, 1862), is certainly fictitious. The second game, said to have been played with Mme von Rémusat, 29 March 1804, and a third game (I.L.N., 1844, 352), played against the Automaton in Vienna, are also of very doubtful authenticity.’ from H.J.R. Murray’s A History of Chess.

He also played in the romantic era so you had to attack back then.

his level of play is hard to tell with such a strong first game but a weak second one

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Napoleon tore his Bonaparte at Waterloo!