Season 24 superfinal statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons. 

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 64%.

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:

55% - TCEC draw rule
19% - SyzygyTB
18% - Mate

There were no crashes in the stage.

Moves per game

Median= 72
Average= 77.5

There were 12 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 275 moves (Stockfish - Leela, game 68, draw).

Time per game (hours) 

Median= 4:17
Average= 4:07

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.

Reverse pairs, wins 

Reverse pairs, same moves 

Pairs of reverse games diverged slower than usual, 18% diverged immediately out of book, 58% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 25 plys, in two game pairs (Leela - Stockfish games 67 and 68, Sicilian Velimirovic attack, two draws ; games 83 and 84, Dutch 2.Bg5 variation, two white wins).