Average number of moves in a game?

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Hartsville54

Does anyone have stats on the average number of moves in a game? Is there a difference between d4 or e4 players?

tygxc

For the Sinquefield 2022:

Average : 48 with a standard deviation of 15 shortest: 25 longest: 92.
No there is no significant difference.

RopemakerStreet

^high level chess is no good for this answer especially with a minute sample size. They are all working from millions of hours of memorised lines

For regular people, there's billions and billions of games that's been played, that's where the answer is, only chess.com could tell you.

tygxc

32th ICCF World Championship 136 games:
Game lasted between 13 and 119 moves, 42 moves average, with standard deviation 16.

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