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This is a quick and dirty guide to jumping into games on tenhou.net, currently the biggest Japanese mahjong site online. For further information on everything on tenhou I would refer you to Alvin’s tenhou documentation site [http://arcturus.su/tenhou/]. Remember to sign his guestbook. Load it up
If you have never played online before or don't really know what to expect, I recommend skipping on to Part 3 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-3-playan/] and coming back later for the lecture. Now that we've gotten the rules out of the way, I want to give a brief idea of
Table of Contents Part 1.5 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-1-5-playing-on-tenhou/] Part 2 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-2-how-to-not-suck/] Part 3 [https://osamuko.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-online-mahjong-part-3-playan/] (well, almost complete) This is the absolute entry-level page for anyone interested in playing Japanese Mahjong online on Tenhou and other sites. If you've always wanted to learn
Entertainment
1. Always attack, unless you should be defending. 2. Always defend, unless you should be attacking. 3. If you are an expert like me, you can even try attacking and defending at the same time. 4. Only deal tiles that other players cannot use, or you will be helping them
Osamu found these some time ago. Kind of distracting at first, but I’m used to them now. When I win a match I can look up and find approval in their eyes, and when I lose they are still there, tirelessly cheering me on. Here’s the link to
tenhou
My attention was diverted to a mahjong thread the other day, and something among the posts caught my eye, a welcome change from the usual jaw-dropping, eye-bleeding, rage-inducing tenhou screenshots. There was a certain amount of conjecture regarding the quality of play as well as the amount of bots, or
Mahjong News
MahjongNews has just released an unofficial list of the best European riichi tournament players of 2009 [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/rankings/various-rankings/650-bestriichiplayers2009.html] . For some reason, drob is in there. In spot #37. As the only Swede. If I’m not mistaken, this makes him the
Statistics
After I started playing mahjong, I learned one thing very fast. It is great to be in the lead. It’s not just great. It is amazingly awesome. You are like a champion looking down on the rabble, watching them scrabble around for crumbs from your table, more often than
Guides
I’ll come out and be a little honest here. When I started writing for Osamu’s blag I wanted to do something special, to make a difference. There is virtually zero English material on the internet, which is surprising in itself, especially as people are extolling their helpful communities
Mahjong News
European mahjong associations cancel cooperation with MahjongTime [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/nieuws/reports/436-mjtproblems.html] From MahjongNews, the world’s #1 source of any news whatsoever that turns up when you google ‘mahjong’ [http://www.mahjongnews.com/en/index.php/nieuws/trivia/427-tcm.html]. Seriously guys, there’
rants
If you are part of a mahjong-playing community, as opposed to grinding on 0000 in a vacuum all day, only pausing between matches to take a swig of your bottled green tea, I’m sure by now you’ll have played in several tournaments. Well, I’m fairly certain of
rants
When playing non-tile-related games it’s polite or even just normal for a guy to say ‘gg’ after the end of a game. Good game. Perhaps it was a long drawn-out struggle, a close match going down to the wire, or perhaps the newcomer was totally outclassed and outmatched. Either
Guides
Just a basic hand chart. Seriously. There is nothing else to see. Actually it’s rather misleading calling mahjong yaku ‘hands’, since most of them are just certain restrictions or conditions checked for in your complete hand. The only time entire complete hands have to be assembled tile for tile
Guides
Apparently according to Osamu he’s been getting quite a few hits from people using terms like “plus minus zero”, so I am making a short post on this. If you are interested in emulating Saki’s feat of breaking even at the end of a match on tenhou, here
Delving into the vile abyss that is the internet, one of our intrepid explorers found this arcane document. She handed it over to me and promptly expired. I thought it appropriate to show the world a glimpse of what lurks beneath. Her sacrifice will not be in vain.
tenhou
Last week along with osamu’s post I decided to start playing 3p with my 4p account on 0000, aiming to reach 1800+ Some of the highlights of yesterday’s session – I played late into the morning, resulting in at least one messed-up game that I will talk about later.