33rd ICCF World Championship Finals

Regulations

The time control was 10 moves in 50 days with doubling after 20 days.

In ICCF event games, players must decide their own moves. Players are permitted to consult prior to those decisions with any publicly available source of information including chess engines (computer programs), books, DVDs, game archive databases, endgame table bases, etc.

The tournament allows claims based on the 7-men table base.

Draws

https://www.iccf.com/event?id=100104

All games ended in draws, except for 10 games marked lost by GM and 3 times former World Champion Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov, who died.

Breakdown of the game results:

Draw agreed: 62 games
3-fold repetition: 46 games
7-men table base draw claim: 18 games
Player died: 10 games

Games

On average a game lasted 46 moves with a standard deviation of 20.
The shortest game ended in a 3-fold repetition after 15 moves.
https://lichess.org/ANOZVQxW#30
In the longest game a draw was agreed in an opposite colored bishop ending after 164 moves.
Games ended with at most 30, and at least 4 men, average 14 men with standard deviation 6.

Openings

1 d4: 67 games
1 d4 Nf6: 45 games
1 d4 d5: 22 games
1 e4: 49 games
1 e4 e5: 26 games
1 e4 c5: 18 games
1 e4 e6: 5 games
1 Nf3: 20 games
1 Nf3 d5: 11 games
1 Nf3 Nf6: 9 games

Most played were:
Catalan (E09): 22 games
Italian (C54): 10 games
Sicilian Najdorf (B90): 10 games

Sample games:
https://lichess.org/yZQSXj7Y#10
https://lichess.org/Tqu1F39p#10
https://lichess.org/axhrxmqK#10

ECO codes

E: 38 games
D: 37 games
C: 31 games
B: 18 games
A: 12 games

Endgames

21 Rook endings
8 Knight endings
8 Queen endings
6 Bishop endings
3 Bishop vs. knight endings
2 Pawn endings

Next

A new 34th World Championship Finals has started on December 20, 2024 with 15 players. So far 11 games have ended, all draws.
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=107382