This post will encompass games 6 through 11. Also since all of these games are against high opposition (2200+) I have analyzed and annotated all of them. Enjoy!
Also if you don't have a chess application and want to view the games and my analysis with a chess application, I would recommend the free program Scid. Just open the pgn with Scid and you'll be able to follow the games and my analysis with a 2d chess board. Get it here:
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Round 7
I found out who I was playing on the free day: the Uzbekistanian Fide Master(FM) Temur Igonin! I was Black, so as soon as I found out that he played King's Pawn, I wanted to play the aggressive Bronstein-Larsen line of the Caro-Kann on which I had done some work. However, the line he played against the mainline 4...Bf5 did not impress, so I decided to just play the mainline. He surprised me with another rare line though, which ended up giving him a nice advantage. Shortly after I had a nice chance to complicate and likely equalize, but once I missed it I collapsed rather quickly. I was not happy with how I played this game, but maybe that just gave me the motivation to do better!
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Temur Igonin - Angel Hernandez-Camen
Round 8
Waiting for Vogel Roven
As he was doing quite terribly as of this point, I was not afraid of the German #1 Vogel Roven, the top seed of the section rated 2450, even as black. His opening didn't make me scared either, but he did have one chance to put me under serious pressure if he had found and played 29.c5. After that I gave him a chance to escape a worse position with a queen trade, but it is obvious even there he wanted the win. That made him suffer in a bad ending for 30+ moves before he got extremely lucky and got out of it with a draw. This game bothered me as well, but at least I had drawn with Black!
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Vogel Roven - Angel Hernandez-Camen
Round 9
It was unfortunate that in this round I was up against a fellow teammate from the US team, Craig Hilby. I thought he played pretty well, but then the blunder came, 16...g5? This blunder practically ended the game, he could never get back up to his feet. Another crush with White!
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Angel Hernandez-Camen - Craig Hilby
Round 10
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| Beginning the match with Kevin who was quite friendly |
After surprising me with the interesting 9.Nb1!? in the 6.Bg2 Bogo-Indian, the #2 from Germany, Kevin Schroeder, extracted a solid advantage. Kevin's position looked pleasant, until he unexpectedly dropped (or sacrificed?! Most likely dropped) a pawn. From there I was always ahead, although both of us made many inaccuracies. Finally, in a late endgame, I managed to push my passed pawns to secure the win. Overall I was fairly happy with this game, and I was very happy to finally win with Black!
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Kevin Schroeder - Angel Hernandez-Camen
Round 11
Again I gained an advantage in the opening with a rare but, in my opinion, strong line in the Grunfeld, 10.Nh4!?, against the Austrian #1 Florian Mesaros. I managed to completely decimate my advantage
but Mesaros failed to take advantage of the situation. After one last lucky chance in time trouble to escape his troubles, he fell into the dark abyss as I collected my 3rd win in a row with a 6-0 score with White.
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Angel Hernandez-Camen - Florian Mesaros
Click here to download all the games in one pgn:
World Youth Chess Championship 2014 Games Part 2
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