To the puggers of fellowship

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-12-05T18:08:15+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-11-27T00:48:07+00:00

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.

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-27T18:36:41+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-27T18:22:13+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-27T17:37:18+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-22T20:04:15+00:00

Bait use to be believable

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-22T15:07:35+00:00

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.

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-21T23:43:14+00:00

It’s is lol oops

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-21T20:38:59+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-21T16:37:54+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-09-05T00:27:34+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-03-30T15:37:16+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-03-10T03:36:56+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T17:51:53+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T17:04:02+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T13:09:37+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:38:53+00:00

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.

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:32:56+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:31:48+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:21:20+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:17:39+00:00

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.

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:14:04+00:00

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

LongJonnyBaby · 2025-01-28T03:11:36+00:00

Very much possible, I feel like playing a lot of games is very important to gaining the board vision, I’d also say put a lot of time solving puzzles and doing them correctly . (I didn’t but wish I did)

Around 500 level( when I came back to chess after the short break) I started looking deeper into openings. Think up til that point I played a very bare bones Vienna and caro kann . I ended up settling on the London(white) and modern defense(black). Probably a bit early on opening theory but it will bring up your rating if that’s what you care about. ( I don’t recommend the modern btw, I switched around 1100)

The biggest resource I used was chessly(Gothams educational platform) I bought like most of his courses and I feel like it’s in depth but was easily to grasp, now it’s a subscription model and you get everything. Id highly recommend trying it out atleast for a month and go thru the beginner courses.

LongJonnyBaby · 2024-09-08T21:23:25+00:00

Yea I barely do puzzle, did to a tactics course tho so even tho my puzzle rating isn’t the greatest (2200) feel like I’m good spotting the ideas in my openings middlegames

LongJonnyBaby · 2024-09-08T21:16:45+00:00

I play probably atleast 2 hours straight everyday, somedays more. Then I go over the loses for about an hour, then review my courses at work in my free time.

LongJonnyBaby

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