Season 15 superfinal statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons. 

Draw rate, wins


Final draw rate was 79%.


Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:

34% - TCEC draw rule
30% - SyzygyTB
21% - TCEC win rule

Moves per game


Median= 79
Average= 89.4

The games were longer than usual, similar to what we saw in the season 14 superfinal. There were 26 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 262 moves (game 33, draw).

Time per game (hours)


Median= 4:20
Average= 4:09

Openings

There were variable length book openings in this stage chosen by Jeroen. The first letter of the ECO codes was distributed as follows:


The book determined the opening in most cases, some of the book sequences were very short and allowed more freedom, one game pair was bookless. 86% of the game pairs repeated the same ECO code twice, and 84% repeated the same opening variant. In 3 game pairs the first ECO letter was not repeated.

Reverse pairs, wins

 
Reverse pairs, same moves 

 

Pairs of reverse games diverged very quickly, 72% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 9 plys, this happened in three game pairs (games 5-6, Dutch, two draws ; games 19-20, Sicilian Rauzer Attack, two draws ; games 79-80, Ruy Lopez modern Steinitz defence, two draws).