Excellent pun, CG. I thought of <King-walker Brothers> but it's too awkward. And <Smother Brothers> would need a smothered mate.

And just think if you were Donald and Robert's father, you could introduce them as your son Byrnes.

Nice game though. 8.Ng5! is very interesting and strong IMO. I was expecting Ne5 there. But the continuation with 8...Nxg5 9.Nxe4! is practically forced. I think 9...Bxf4 cooked Donald's goose, had should have conceded the pawn and played 9.0-0 -- did he really think he could snap up the pawn and fight his way out of the discovery threats from the N on e4?

<"What a Fool Believes" 12...Qxd4??, but in Chess, a wise man does have the power to reason away.>

Yeah, Qxd4 loses almost immediately ... but black has serious problems...I don't think black has a move. I thought 12...Qh6 let him hang on a bit longer but 13.Kd2! wins the N (the more intuitive 13.Kf2? leads to tactical insanity and black counterplay after 13...f4.) 12...Qe7 also fails, again to 13.Kd2.

Black's queen was busier than a one-armed paper hanger with poison ivy.

A few more alternate puns:

"Burn Center"

"Burn Out"

This is totally irrelevant, but before the sunblock era there was a fashion - mostly in Australia - for homemade tan tattoos, made by cutting out a stencil of a word or image, putting it on your skin, and lying in the sun. The rays would do the rest.

In your continuation take a look at 13...f4, which should hold for black

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That diagram isn't right... the pawn g2 should be g3, and the answer to 13.f4 is gxf4.

But I looked (with help from Mr. Silicon) and you're are right that black isn't absolutely no-chances-to-draw dead -- I went in a half dozen moves and the evaluation is roughly +2.0 for white.

I guess I would expect a professional player to struggle on looking for some way to swindle a draw, but after 13.gxf4 I wouldn't want to play black, would you?

The diagram is fine based on the continuation you proposed <12...Qe7 also fails, again to 13.Kd2.> Your 13 Kd2 replaces the text move 13 g3. If you want to play 13 g3 instead of 13 Kd2 black will castle.

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Either way black has equalized.

Well... yes & no... I see what happened, not your fault.

My line was mis-numbered, I had responded to this <"What a Fool Believes" 12...Qxd4??, but in Chess...> I didn't check that there is no 12...Qxd4, it should have been numbered 13...Qxd4

despite the faulty numbering, my analysis was for alternate 13th moves for black, not alternate 12th... and in my analysis, g3 has been played.

Make sense?

Well, that's a relief, as it was my original point as well!