Season 25 superfinal statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons. 

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 50%.

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:

45% - TCEC draw rule
27% - Mate

24% - SyzygyTB

There were no crashes in the stage.

Moves per game

Median= 77
Average= 83.2

There were 17 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 379 moves (Stockfish - Leela, game 84, draw), a new TCEC record.

Time per game (hours) 

Median= 4:21
Average= 4:12

Openings

There were variable length book openings in this stage chosen by Jeroen Noomen. 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, 8% diverged immediately out of book, 46% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 53 plys (Leela - Stockfish games 49 and 50, Modern defense, two draws).