Season 24 league 1 statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons.  

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 52.7%. 

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:
39.0% - TCEC draw rule
32.2% - SyzygyTB
19.3% - Mate

There were no crashes in the league.

Moves per game

Median= 70.3
Average= 76.9

There were 41 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 249 moves (Fritz - Marvin, game 159, white win). 

Time per game (hours)

Median= 1:04
Average= 1:02

Openings

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

The engines almost no freedom to choose the opening variant, in all the game pairs the ECO code and the opening variant was repeated.

Reverse pairs, wins

Reverse pairs, same moves

Pairs of reverse games diverged less quickly than usual, only 17.4% diverged immediately out of book, 59.8% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 20 plys (RubiChess - rofChade, games 28 and 94, Robatsch defence, Rossolimo variation, two white wins)