[toledi]

The article's good. However, the comment about experts not getting to the endgame as often as non-experts is likely wrong. I don't have the data either, but I'm fairly experienced at chess, and in my experience high level games get to an endgame moderately often, but amateur games almost always end before an endgame. Amateurs typically don't even know how to play an endgame, because they rarely get to it so they don't realize why they should learn. I know a lot of amateurs focus a lot on the opening because they see themselves winning or losing in the opening, when that's more due to tactical blunders than anything essential to the opening.

It'd be interesting to see some statistics for this.

[dfan]

Agreed: the higher level the players, the more endgames. Think of two people fighting on a balance beam. The weaker the fighters, the greater the chance that one of them is going to slip off the beam (make a blunder that is punishable) earlier in the fight.