Season 23 superfinal statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons. 

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 63%.

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:

56% - TCEC draw rule
25% - Mate
12% - SyzygyTB

There were no crashes in the stage.

Moves per game

Median= 73.8
Average= 76.3

There were 12 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 256 moves (Stockfish - Leela, game 68, draw).

Time per game (hours) 

Median= 4:34
Average= 4:19

Openings

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

The engines had almost no freedom to choose the opening variant, all the game pairs repeated the same ECO and the same opening variant twice, except one with ECO codes E76 and E77.

Reverse pairs, wins 

Reverse pairs, same moves 

Pairs of reverse games diverged much slower than usual, only 12% diverged immediately out of book, 52% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 29 plys (Leela - Stockfish games 19 and 20, KGA bishop's gambit, Lopez-Gianutio counter-gambit, two draws).