Mahjong player from UK, creator of osamuko. Sometimes I take photographs so people call me “Mahjong Photographer” even though I'm bad at it.
Mahjong News
Japanese developer Fuzz released a new mahjong server in February called "Jong City" with support from pro leagues Real Mahjong Unit and Nihon Pro Mahjong. The server's key feature is webcam support and the ability to play top professionals from RMU and NPM as well as
![[Houou Lab] Looking at Tenhoui ASAPIN’s Calling Part I](/content/images/size/w600/2018/03/stratdefault.jpg)
Guides
Original article by Kentaro on his blog [http://saikyo-jansi.com/2017/11/02/%E3%80%90%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E3%80%91%E9%B3%B3%E5%87%B0%E5%8D%93%E5%BC%B7%E8%80%85%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B625%EF%BC%9Aasapin%E3%
Mahjong News
ASAPIN, the legendary player who reached Tenhou's summit twice, announced [https://saikouisen.com/news/%E6%9C%9D%E5%80%89%E5%BA%B7%E5%BF%83%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B-%E5%85%A5%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%
Mahjong News
Online mahjong game Tonpuusou announced it is turning off the servers in March after 21 years of service. Created by Katsu "mjman" Azuma, Tonpuusou made its splash on the mahjong world in December 1996. It quickly became popular and after 3 years had reached 500,000 active accounts.
![[Paifu Analysis] Is their Riichi hand expensive?](/content/images/size/w600/2018/02/paifu.jpg)
Statistics
Orginal post: http://doraaka.exblog.jp/15552053/ by Kita Haz. Translation by Butane with permission Hi. Sorry to be getting straight to the point, but let’s say that you’re the dealer in a normal round, and on the 8th turn someone declares Riichi while your hand looks like
Mahjong News
Yuudai Maehara 9 Dan held on to Japan Professional Mahjong League's highest title for the 2nd year. Yuudai has won the Hououisen four times (1995, 2008, 2016. 2017) and shares the record of winning the Hououisen the most times with the late Mitsuru Andou-pro.
tenhou
Release history until Tenhou: June 2000 - 25-year-old Tokyo University School of Engineering Postdoctoral student Shingo "C-Egg" Tsunoda released his first game, a free to play RTS 'Egg Market'. Egg Market gained a small fanbase, attracting, on average, 30-40 concurrent users. There was a premium membership
Tournaments
(Featured photo and various parts of this post are from Mahjong Watch [http://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658%22%3Ehttp://mj-news.net/game-app/2017022860658] in October of 2016, after finally planning my first ever trip to Japan with Daniel Moreno [https://twitter.com/xDasukex/] of PML, I emailed Shingo Tsunoda, creator
World Riichi Championship
Organization: Japan Professional Mahjong League Birthplace: Chiba Year born: 1958 Rank: 8 dan Years Pro: 23 Nickname(s): ? Favouite yaku: Sanshoku Doujun, Honitsu Titles: * 24th Hououi (2004) * 2nd World Riichi Championship (2017) International Tournament Results: * 1st World Riichi Championship 2014 (6/120) * 2nd World Riichi Championship 2017 (1/224) Ron2
World Riichi Championship
Day 3 - Thursday 5th I woke up rather early. Even though I went to bed at 3am, I woke up at 6am. Jet lag? I wasn't feeling tired though. While confirming where the breakfast was, I saw Toshiyuki Tomozoe-pro (Afro-pro) from Saikouisen in the shop next door
World Riichi Championship
The 2017 World Riichi Championship took place in Las Vegas last week and attracted 224 players, almost doubling the participant size from its predecessor, making it no doubt the largest Japanese mahjong tournament outside of Japan. Day 1 I arrived in Vegas on the 3rd of October and after attempting
World Riichi Championship
Hiroshi Yamai made history in 2014 by winning the first WRC. Will he be able to defend his title in 2017?