Fast CC

It seems that Correspondence Chess is no longer safe from the demands of this modern, fast paced society. As an experiment, the CCLA is trialling 'Fast' CC events, to see whether this fits the gap between traditional CC and on line turn based games. Of course 'Fast' is still not fast by real time standards, but the time control of 100 moves in 60 days, followed by 100 moves in 10 days is still pretty quick. The idea is to both give players enough time to make it through most of the game at a sensible pace, while not leaving the final stage to drag out over a period of months.
The first event is underway, and it looks like the players are getting into the swing of things. There are few games where both players still have their 60 days on the clock (due to the fact that moves that take less than a day are essentially free), and a couple of games that have ended surprisingly quickly.
In the game below both players rattled off their moves quite quickly, but while White was hunting the rook on a8, it was Black who crashed through on the kingside.


Anderson,Len (1212) - Ward,Bill (1585) [A10]
23.01.2016

1. c4 f5 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. Nc3 d6 7. b3 e5 8. d3 c6 9. Nd2 Qe8 10. e4 f4 11. Nf3 Qh5 12. h4 h6 13. d4 Bg4 14. d5 c5 15. Nb5 fxg3 16. Nc7 Nxe4 17. Nxa8 gxf2+ 18. Kh1 Bxf3 19. Bxf3 Qxh4+ 20. Kg2 Qg3+ 0-1