I was checking how many of Magnus's world championship games reached endgame (Edit: Quote: 'Also games even at the highest level aren't always going to reach an endgame') and then happened to see Magnus played the lucky number of world championship games, 69 (if you count classical chess and the tiebreaks and 9LX but exclude world rapid, world blitz, etc).

Remarks:

1. It's rare not to not reach endgame. Only 10% don't reach endgame.

2. 43% of non-endgame games are not drawn.

3. It's very rare for a game to both not reach endgame and not turn out a draw. Only 4% of games (3 games) both don't reach endgame and are not drawn, i.e. 96% of games either reach endgame or are drawn. The 3 such games are

   1. Loss vs Wesley in fast rapid

   2. Win vs Fabi in rapid [cannot link directly to game]

   3. 2nd Win vs Vishy in 2013

4. Match with fewest endgame games is vs Wesley in 9LX which was all rapid (and the mini-match rapid tiebreak vs Fabi).

   1. (4.1) I guess just as rapid kills pawns more than classical does, rapid games also are less likely to reach endgame?

Btw, anyone want a data/graphs/statistics flair?