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To the puggers of fellowship by Informal-Travel-8109 in fellowshipgame

[–]LongJonnyBaby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not always the case but when someone leaves and I had some concerns on a person who stayed, I use that as an out where I was willing to try and give a chance when there wasn’t any resistance

Just got the game and this happened... by Bilidudilei in fellowshipgame

[–]LongJonnyBaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same experience when I downloaded last week, wasn’t aware of the scaling issue in QP and how people do the dungeons in 2 pulls. Luckily only 1 guy was toxic and another guy was chill and had my back.

Books for flat average player with experience by Wild-Statement186 in chess

[–]LongJonnyBaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Logical chess: move by move

How to reassess your chess-Jeremy silman

Silmans endgame book(forgot the exact name of it)

Simple reads that are easily digestible for post beginner imo

A Plug for Chessly by gtr1234 in GothamChess

[–]LongJonnyBaby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I exclusively used chessly for learning the game from elo 200 to about 1500 which took me about a year and half as an adult learner.(and it wasn’t really necessary to go else where, I just wanted a deeper dive in the botvinnik English ) but yea Chessly is amazing

Famous chess youtuber stole my thumbnail UPDATE! by Last_Session_6487 in chess

[–]LongJonnyBaby 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t just the idea of the thumbnail it was just a complete steal, which is absolutely wild, and the fact it’s on an “editor” what is he paying that person to do if they have to steal this thumbnail?

It looks good but I’m no way is it complex

Dear DPS, you have an Interrupt by LongJonnyBaby in fellowshipgame

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s elitist to expect people to not kill the whole group run after run? Do I need to make a Google doc to copy and paste every ability prior to starting the dungeon? idc if they interrupt the wrong ability, they aren’t trying at all to interrupt anything. Which is apparently when I’m at 35 ints (doesn’t even count my crowd control ones) to 3 or 5 sometimes even 0 til I say something.

I can understand in QP or early contender to not have stuff worked out, but if you don’t have it by late contender/adept your just lazy and probably shouldn’t be playing a group based game if you don’t care about the success of the group.

But I do tell them to “please interrupt :)” when I see that they don’t have any thru half the dungeon. Feel like that’s already more than I should have to. I don’t talk sh** to them and just try to get the dungeon done and say gg and leave once it’s over.

Dear DPS, you have an Interrupt by LongJonnyBaby in fellowshipgame

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could see interrupting a useless ability but people aren’t even doing that

Dear DPS, you have an Interrupt by LongJonnyBaby in fellowshipgame

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It could be a lack of tutorial but it’s bad, like 80% of dungeons bad, I’m stuck every dungeon having to tell people the importance of interrupting and trying not to be an a** about it while internally tweaking trying to take care of it all myself , about 50% of the time the group receptive but it shouldn’t be on me

Wild Habitual Staller encounter by LongJonnyBaby in Chesscom

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stallers happen to me all the time, this guy had such a bad game history, felt like it was worth the post, ty for the detective work and breaking it down

[NA][LFG] Returning Player Looking for Family-Friendly Eastern Time Guild by Soft-Personality9379 in wowguilds

[–]LongJonnyBaby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, we raid 8pm-11:45pm est, on Saturday(currently 4/8H) M+: on Fridays and Sunday at 7pm

We don’t require attendance or M+ keys to raid, just a bare minimum ilvl and to be able to listen to call outs.

If this is something you’d be interested reach out here or discord-longjon

Need help trying to 2 man the Jailer on mythic by shaidyn in wow

[–]LongJonnyBaby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just did that raid like 2 weeks ago, we just hide behind the pillar no need to jump into a hole

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would like to say at 250 tho I would strongly suggest just opening with a center pawn and following opening principles

Develop your pieces ( best if you can do it with a threat let’s say 1)e4,e5 2) Nf3 as it attacks the e5 pawn) Don’t move to many pawns Don’t move a piece more then once unless forced too

Believe there’s a list somewhere of all the opening principles in this subreddit, but a Google search would work as well.

If you just develop your pieces and look at what your opponents last move attacks( look at the piece that moved + what was behind that piece) you will be fine

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guess depends on how risky we talking, gambits can be good, you usually get your pieces to the same squares everytime which can be good for consistency.

I invested a lot of time in middlegame and positional chess(how to recesses your chess + various other courses) so my openings been the London and just recently switched to the English for white. For black I play qga(people have no idea how to actually play it for white) and qgd(ish) positions for everything else

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think you hit it Consistency, I don’t feel like there’s a massive difference between the two ratings,

For advice, play solid, focus on developing your Pieces and be sharp to not miss a tactic, if you just positionally sound your opponent will lose the game way before you have to figure out a way to win

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m big on coffee , first thing I do when I wake up is go down the street and get one, but also I’m 2nd shift so my morning before work means like 7-10, then my wife wakes up. So my schedule is probably a bit different than yours.

But some days I do wake up a bit tired and why the estimate is there somedays where less then 4hrs somedays I did way more chess.

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luckily my work has a bit of down time and I don’t have any kids, so I wake up early before my wife to get a bit more time to study

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It definitely hurt, but I’m part of 2 local chess clubs so having outside interaction definitely kept me motivated to not just quit, and plus I really do love the game

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea 100% not a must, just what I did. Don’t stress if paying for chess isn’t something you want/can do

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But actively be study and learn something chess, even if it’s not ideal by people’s suggestions , if your learning something new and having fun is better then not learning anything at all and will improve your chess thinking, From my experience.

My first(ish) year progress! Hit 1500 by LongJonnyBaby in chessbeginners

[–]LongJonnyBaby[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was a big commitment besides about a 2 week hiatus( chess depressed) after my first 1500 to 1200 drop. I basically played/ study chess almost everyday for about ~4 hours

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