Hi everyone,
You know the moment.
You survived the opening, navigated the middlegame, maybe even nicked a pawn. Everything simplifies — queens off, minors off — and it's just your rook, their rook, a handful of pawns.
Then you freeze. Deer in the headlights. You know there's a "right square" for the king. You've heard Lucena, Philidor, cutoff… but under the clock, you guess. They find the only move. Two hours of good chess gone in six.
Over 50% of serious chess games end in a rook endgame. Statistically the most important endgame to know — and the one most players neglect most.
On Sunday, May 10, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, we fix that. In-person, in Montreal, with our local GM: Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, a top-10 player in Canada, born-and-raised Montrealer, who knows this stuff inside out.
For 2 hours, Thomas walks through endgames straight from his own tournament play — not textbook diagrams — and you leave with patterns you'll actually use:
King activity (and why it's always the first question)
Converting an extra pawn without letting it slip
Saving the half-point a pawn (or two) down
The R+P vs R+P nuances that flip a draw into a win
Details
📅 Sun, May 10, 2026 · 2:00 – 4:00 PM
👥 In-person · 20 seats max · 🇫🇷 conducted in French
🎯 Players rated 1000 – 2000 (FIDE / Chess.com / Lichess)
💵 $42
👉 https://chesspass.blitzbishops.com/workshop/c_r1t7ybve
See you Sunday,
The BlitzBishops team
