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Tournaments
Congratulations to Lorizean and our own ron^5 who recently made the cut to represent Germany in the upcoming European Mahjong Championships! We were unable to find any reports of this tournament anywhere online, even though it’s been quite a few days since I was highlighted on IRC while
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All of us have been playing quite a lot of Starcraft:Brood War recently for no reason. None of us actually played the game competitively (in any sense of the word) before – I recall reaching level 5-ish in the Terran campaign before giving up, back when I was twelve, and
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While taking a break from feverishly constructing pon palaces and kan keeps, most of us play various strategy games. Osamu found a wordpress plugin that kind of does that blog-in-a-blog thing, so you can read while you read. To keep these posts from getting in the way of the normal
That was all you need to know to play, really. For further and more detailed information you can check out detailed rulebooks and stuff. The thing is, although we do love to play and don't mind sharing what we know, there's a huge gap in skill
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
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
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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