Season 26 entrance league statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons.  

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 64.2%. 

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:
44.6% - TCEC draw rule
27.1% - SyzygyTB
16.7% - mate

There were no crashes in the stage.

Moves per game

Median= 64.8
Average= 73.9

There were 36 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 277 moves (Stash - Stormphrax, game 118, draw). 

Time per game (hours)

Median= 1:01
Average= 0:59

Openings

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

The engines had almost no freedom to choose the opening variant, all of the game pairs but one repeated the ECO code and the opening variant twice. In all of the game pairs the first letter of the ECO code was repeated.

Reverse pairs, wins

Reverse pairs, same moves

Pairs of reverse games diverged quickly, 27.5% diverged immediately out of book, 70.8% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 17 plys (Obsidian - Velvet, games 8 and 128, Pirc classical system, two draws)