Sinquefield Saint-Louis Statistics

Statistics from the 2022 Sinquefield Cup

The 9th Sinquefield Cup at Saint Louis 2022 was an invitational round robin tournament with:

Carlsen (2861), Nepomniachtchi (2792), Firouzja (2778), So (2771), Aronian (2759), Caruana (2758), Vachier-Lagrave (2757), Mamedyarov (2757), Dominguez Perez (2745), Niemann (2688).

Carlsen withdrew after 3 rounds:
a win from Nepomniachtchi, a draw with Aronian, and a loss to Niemann.
His games have been striken from the tournament, but included here.
The play-off is excluded here.

The shortest game counted 25 moves, the longest 92.
The earliest novelty was on move 5, the latest on move 27.
That gives an effective game length between 10 and 71 moves.

                               average   standard deviation     minimum    maximum
Length                         48                    15                        25              92
Novelty                        15                     4                          5               27
Length after novelty    33                   15                         10              71

1. e4 was played most and most successfully
The response 1...e5 was played most and most successfully   

                                   games   draws   white wins   black wins
total                              39         26                9               4
1. e4                              21         14                5               2
1. e4 e5                         14           9                3               2
1. e4 c5                           7           5                2               0
1. d4, 1. c4, 1. Nf3         18         12                4               2

Most played were: Najdorf Sicilian, Petrov Defence, Giuoco Piano Italian, Ruy Lopez Berlin.

ECO    games Opening
B90         5     Najdorf
C42         4     Petrov
C54         3     Giuoco Piano
C67         3     Berlin
D27         2    Queen's Gambit Accepted
E04          2    Catalan
A21         2     English
A20, A28, A34, B30, B45, C43, C50, C65, C83,
D35, D38, D50, D73, E05, E11, E20, E32, E35 were played once.

55% of games reached an endgame with 1 piece per side, and 33% of those were rook endings.
Total                       38
Middle games        17
Endgames              21
R vs. R                      7
Q vs. Q                     4
B vs. B                      4
B vs. N                     3
R vs. B                      2
P vs. P                      1

On average there were 0.55 errors / game.
Errors     Games
0               23
1               12
2                 3
3                 1

@2
An error (?) is a move that worsens the game state from a draw to a loss,
or from a win back to a draw.
A blunder or double error (??) is a move that worsens the game state from a win to a loss.