Season 22 league 3 statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons.   

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 44.7%.

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:

41.7% - SyzygyTB
26.5% - Mate
22.7% - TCEC draw rule

There were no crashes in the stage, Bit-Genie lost once on time in a drawn position.

Moves per game

Median= 62.5
Average= 69.1

There were 14 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 168 moves (Weiss - Arasan, game 65, draw). 

Time per game (hours)

Median= 1:00
Average= 1:00

Openings

There were variable length (1-8 plys) book openings in this stage chosen by Eduardo Saucedo and Bastiaan J. Braams. The first letter of the ECO codes was distributed as follows:

The engines had some freedom to choose the opening variant, 78.8% of the game pairs repeated the same ECO code twice, and 74.2% repeated the same opening variant. Only in two (3.0%) game pairs the ECO first letter was not repeated twice.

Reverse pairs, wins

Reverse pairs, same moves 

Pairs of reverse games diverged quickly, 25.8% diverged immediately out of book, 65.2% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 20 plys (Tucano - Drofa, games 37 and 103, Petrov, Damiano variation, two draws)