Sunday, July 6, 2025

Season 28 entrance league statistics

A summary statistics table of previous stages and seasons.  

Draw rate, wins

Final draw rate was 55%. 

Game termination

The three most common game termination causes were:
45% - mate
41.3% - TCEC draw rule
10.4% - 3-Fold repetition

There were no crashes in the stage. This season tablebase positions do not terminate the game.

Moves per game

Median= 78
Average= 82.0

There were 51 games longer than 100 moves, the longest was 284 moves (Stash - PlentyChess, game 176, draw). The change in game termination criteria caused games to be longer than before.

Time per game (hours)

Median= 1:05
Average= 1:03

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.

Reverse pairs, wins

Reverse pairs, same moves

Pairs of reverse games diverged quickly, 30.8% diverged immediately out of book, 68.3% of the pairs diverged at most after 1 move. The longest repeated sequence of moves was 18 plys (Renegade - Arasan, games 15 and 135, QGD Slav, Steiner variation, two draws) 


2 comments:

  1. TCEC is so opaque. Found out current league 2. Where are Entrance League results? On my way found this. No answer yet.

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    1. Try the TCEC archive, see top left of the website. All past games can be found there. Use "Seasons" to choose the event you want to browse, including the current one. The TCEC chat is also useful for advice.

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